14-foot Chucky is 'out now and he's dangerous' : A Thread About Alligators.

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GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) A 14-foot alligator named Chucky and eight other gators escaped a small zoo amid the flooding of Hurricane Ivan, and workers were searching for the reptiles Friday.

The half-ton Chucky was believed to be somewhere around the zoo or in water that feeds a coastal state park, and general manager Kate Ramon said it could take down even a large man.

''We keep Chucky well fed, so he's normally not dangerous. But he's out now and he's dangerous,'' she said.

The alligators apparently got over zoo barriers when its ponds overflowed during Ivan's torrential rain Thursday.

Ramon said the coastal ponds and bayous of the Gulf Shores area are ''covered up'' with alligators, but few are as big as Chucky.

Zoo workers on Thursday killed a small alligator that had escaped a pond.

In July, a man was bitten on the leg by an alligator that tried to drag him under while he was swimming at Lake Shelby in nearby Gulf State Park.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

This too!

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(I think this would be exploited as an exceedingly effective form of population control).

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck off

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 18 September 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

really that sort of glibness over people 'not like i approve of' dying is pretty much the default mindset of bushco so again: fuck off

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 18 September 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Err, from whence comes this hostility, soldier?

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

And for what it's worth, sir, I fail to see how a thread about escaped alligators is in way an endorsement of the 'default midset of Bushco.'

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

really that sort of glibness over people 'not like i approve of' dying is pretty much the default mindset of bushco so again: fuck off

this really belonged on the new orleans flooding thread but I understand.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't even participate in that thread! I don't understand why anybody has to take offense to my amusement (and this isn't glibness) at the notion of escaped alligators roaming through New Orleans! I have made no light of the circumstances, nor have I trivialized the hurricane! Perhaps we get can off our high horses and appreciate, objectively, the idea of reptiles on Bourbon street?

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

alligators everywhere all of a sudden!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Scott, at least I know my glibness has company.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeremy, I think it was this comment:

(I think this would be exploited as an exceedingly effective form of population control)

...that set blount off, although he projected the "people 'not like i approve of'" part himself, even though you didn't mention that you specifically wanted Ivan victims offed, specifically. You were just making a general nihilistic quip, which I found not offensive but not really that funny, admittedly.

― skmg mgrso, Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

preemptive strike: i don't think jeremy's comment automatically implies offing people he "doesn't approve of"... i took it, removing oneself FAR from the realities right now, of a rather odd and comical way of the attrition of humanity.. through ALLIGATAH POWAH!

on the flip, making comments like this in the wake of such a blast of hurricanes is likely to not be taken lightly, so furthermore, i think the comment was poorly timed.

― skmg mgrso, Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahh... well, I apologize if that was blount's understanding, but I still think it's hyper-sensative.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

sensitive

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/17/alligator.captured.ap/index.html

― chuck, Monday, 20 September 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys, alligators live all over that part of the country, so a couple escaping from a zoo is not a big deal. My dad (who lives 30 miles or so north of Gulf Shores) sends me news stories all the time about gators being captured on highways and stuff around his town, so this thread isn't really much more than that.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Four officers wrestling an alligator out of a hot tub, a house filled with animal cages, and the arrest of a man wanted by the military for desertion.

There's a movie in this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

okay that story about the gator in Illinois is pretty newsworthy though, that's kinda strange.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The alligator wasn't in New Orleans.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Besides, where the fuck is Steve Irwin when you actually need him? Isn't this is JOB?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah Gulf Shores is like a 2-and-a-half-hour drive from Nawlins, people.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Was 'Crocodile Hunter' 2004? If so, that's in serious contention for my film of the year.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I still haven't seen that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

2002. Saw it on the way over from New Zealand to Australia IIRC. The partisan crowd appreciated it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

he's likely in Australia, taunting snakes.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

they caught chucky:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/22/chucky.caught/index.html

― chucky, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad they didn't shoot him.

"Tim Williams, called the dean of gator wrestling at the Florida park"

Okay, now I want to see this guy wrestle Steve Irwin for the title.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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