In Florida How Many People Are Eaten Each Year By Alligators?

[sandyRoe]

I've seen films of them in swimming pools and lolling about on golf courses. That's gators, not people.

[Prudie]

Here's a snippet
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data cited by Live Science records that gators killed 10 people in the southeastern US between 1999 and 2019, a period in which five times as many people died after being mauled by dogs and 12 times as many were struck by lightning.

[sandyRoe]

Thanks, Prudie. They're not as much of a threat as I imagined.

[Prudie]

No but strangely I, and probably many others, would be far more scared of a croc than I would a dog or lightning!

[Togo]

When alligator skin shoes become fashionable again they won't be so cocky about lozzucking about in the sunshine.

That's gators, not people. :))

[Hopkirk]

Far more at risk of being shot at the Mall.

[Togo]

What?? By an alligator? I know the gun laws are a bit lax but crikey, how do they check their age? Looking at the teeth? :))

[lankeela]

Togo that surely deserves a Best Answer!

[webbo3]

You know those holes you see in Crocs, that's where every bit of your dignity oozes out.

[Bazile]

How do you tell the difference between a gator and a croc ?

[Prudie]

Haha webbo. I am only allowed to wear my crocs in the back garden. They must not set foot outside the front door OH says. They are probably both the most comfortable and the most hideous footwear I've ever owned.

[10ClarionSt]

Whilst on holiday in Florida with Mrs Clarion, playing golf at Kissimmee Golf Club (now closed, sadly), I teed off at one hole that had a large pond down the right. I thought my ball had gone in the water, but, joy, it hadn't! It was a couple of yards from the water. The side of the pond had lots of small sand bars and reeds. I got out of the buggy and as I approached my ball, Mrs Clarion said: "Is that an alligator?"
I said, "where?"
"Just to right, near that sand"
I looked, and as I did so, the gator raised it's head out of the water. I said: "F***. It is!"
I picked my ball up rapid and turned to get in the buggy, only to see Mrs Clarion already driving it off, 20 yards away! Stand by your man, eh?!

[murraymints]

baz crocs come in pairs in fetching primary colours..assorted sizes !!

[douglas9401]

Bazile, the croc will be the one that turns up in a while but not too much later.

[jno]

there aren't any songs indicating whether it's safe to smile at an alligator.

[sandyRoe]

I used to wonder why the croc only took Capt Hook's hand. He can't have been very tasty.

[Togo]

Not so Sandy.:)) The crocodile followed Hook because he had found his hand to be very tasty. Peter Pan had cut of Hooks hand and fed it to the croc. In fact the crock went on to eat a clock which had two hands. Kiddies stories aren't what they used to be.

[Togo]

Another thing ... what was Capt. Hook's name when he had two hands?

[douglas9401]

Claude.

[douglas9401]

Cheers Sandy. :-)