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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 23:42:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 2:05:50 GMT
Yeah... all the news here on the NC coast is about shark attacks. I think that there have been six or seven so far.
Once, while in a helicopter climbing to 10,000 feet (from which we were go to sky dive) we could see the Monterey Bay in the distance. I tapped my buddy's shoulder, pointed to the bay and told him that I was going to teach him to scuba dive in the bay. He grinned at me and said that there was no way that he was ever going to go scuba diving. He said that there were things in that bay that wanted to eat him! Obviously, he was right. |
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Post by Bear Foot Farm on Jul 5, 2015 9:01:29 GMT
I saw a couple of "shark experts" on TV discussing two of the first attacks that happened a couple of miles apart, and one of the news people asked if they thought it was the same shark
Evidently there are some whose entire knowledge of sharks came from seeing "JAWS"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 1:02:58 GMT
And does not "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel start real soon? I thought I saw an advertisement for it recently.
That should add to the fear.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 2:07:17 GMT
DING! DING! DING!
And we have a winner!!!
A winner of a Darwin award!!!
It seems that not only is there a sign warning customers of the alligators, the recent Darwin Award winner was also personally told by employees of the establishment. When personally informed, his retort was, "blank the alligators"!!!
Ooops! Removed from the gene pool!!!
The sad thing is that they are probably going to kill a few gators in an effort to find the one that killed him.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 3:20:39 GMT
"Local bayous might not be safe for swimming" “One of my greatest childhood memories is when we went up to my aunt's camp. I grew up swimming in the bayou, always hydro-sliding, skiing, tubing or just having fun off the wharf,” a 34-year-old Houma woman said. www.houmatoday.com/article/20140715/ARTICLES/140719737Most southern bayous and rivers have homes along them and kids swimming in them. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 9:32:27 GMT
And they say you can't fix stupid. I'd say it got fixed this time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 13:57:28 GMT
Yep, there were some famous last words which I can't quote here. This guy didn't need to be contributing to the gene pool. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 16:35:24 GMT
Sorry for the slight thread drift, but...
And yet another contender for the Independence Day Darwin award!!!
It seems that a young man in Maine made the drunken decision to fire off a mortar-type firework from the top of his head. Needless to say he did not enjoy that firework's sparkling blast in the sky above since he immediately died upon ignition.
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But his brother professes that his now deceased brother would never do anything stupid and that the lighter accidentally ignited the fuse on the firework.
Hmmm... So I guess that he placed the mortar base on his head as a joke, he inconveniently happened to have a lighter in his hand and the lighter, for some unknown reason, the lighter accidentally lit the fuse!!!
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Sorry, but I am not buying it. It is sometimes difficult enough to light a firework fuse even when you intend to do so. And then there is always that tell-tale sizzle once it is lit, not to mention the ubiquitous sparks. Not to mention that most, if not all, lighters these days need some kind of manual help by a human in order to actually produce a flame.
Winner!!! Or is it loser???
I do think that he should win the Independence Day Darwin Award, instead of the alligator guy, since he did keep with the holiday theme by using fireworks to speed his removal from the gene pool. |
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Post by Bear Foot Farm on Jul 6, 2015 21:54:27 GMT
My wife was commenting on the 3rd about how we can no longer buy any "good" fireworks here.
I told her there is a really good reason for that, which is stupid people.
I said to watch for the stories to start popping up about people killed or injured due to fireworks, and lack of judgement, and the above story was the first one she showed me last night
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 17:20:15 GMT
I heard today that somebody killed an 11 ft. alligator and dropped it off at the marina where the man was killed. When the officials cut it open they found some body parts eaten by the gator. So they got him at least, which is a good thing.
They hunt at night, and if that fellow had gone swimming in the daylight hours maybe he wouldn't have been bit so bad. In the Okie swamp sometimes its really hard to stay in the pirogue because of the heat and you just got to go swimming to cool off. I wouldn't do it in the night time, but I've done it a lot in the day time. When you paddle out into a open area, go quiet like and look for gators laid up on logs or floating around with their eyes up out of the water. Just slip over the side and get cool, don't tarry too long though, then get back in. Make one person stay put in case a gator comes off a log or looks like its heading your way he can warn you. you'll probably be okay, more than likely will be okay, be good to go on with your swamp tripping I would think, go ahead and try it, the water is cool.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 7, 2015 17:33:37 GMT
If you watch Swamp People on the History channel, there's been some gators taken that could probably bite a man in two with one bite. That is definitely one critter that I would be happy to just allow it to go about whatever it wants to do without me getting close enough to become a meal.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2015 2:45:18 GMT
Clue he was from Missouri, had a few Beers. He was proving he was much bigger than things in Texas.
II would probably do the same if I still drank.
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Post by copperkid3 on Jul 10, 2015 22:34:59 GMT
A drunken fool will do what a drunken fool has to do . . .
And there'll be an alligator out there, that'll be taking an advantage of it too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 0:54:52 GMT
A drunken fool will do what a drunken fool has to do . . . And there'll be an allegator out there, that'll be taking an advantage of it too. Hey at times I use to be Bullet Proof, Good thing is I had plenty of people around knowing otherwise. Of course anymore Cops would just shoot me and put me out of my misery.
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