Does anybody want to go swimming?

[gunauthor]

It's only necessary for stupid people......

[Love Life]

It's only necessary for stupid people......

Somebody will trespass, get bit up, and then sue...and win.

[cainttype]

Gators are kinda like sharks, people are around them regularly with usually no harm done. Attacks on people are uncommon, but results range from severe mauling and/or dismembered limbs to death.
The disappearance of pets in areas with healthy gator populations is not uncommon, and that includes some fairly large dog breeds.

Gators tend to grow in length mostly, to about 7-8 ft. After that, they tend to put on a lot of weight for any length gained... A 9ft dwarfs a 7ft, weightwise...12 ft plus is very big, and over 13ft is HUGE.

Anyone that ventures into water regularly frequented by gators in the 8ft+ range is taking a risk. Anyone knowingly allowing children to play in those areas is a fool.

[1911cherry]

Gators are a part of everyday life depending on where you live. We fish, swim and tube in a river basin and reservoir full of gators, we respect them and they leave us alone. Some times there are troublemakers of human and gatorkind, usually the same result either species, knuckleheads get removed from the gene pool. Gators get hunted , rednecks say hold my beer and watch this....

[NavyVet1959]

In the end, Darwin will always be there for you.

[dtknowles]

There is a pond in the lawn in front of the NASA Headquarters at Kennedy Space Center. From time to time there will be a gator that makes it his home. They normally leave the gator alone unless some idiot starts to feed it and it become used to human contact then they deal with it and it is gone. Not sure what deal with it means but it is not longer in the pond.

Tim