• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Beach? Alligators don’t like saltwater. They like lakes and rivers and such. Maybe he was swimming in a lake. Lakes wouldn’t have lifeguards.

    Also, anyone in Florida knows you don’t swim in lakes. You treat all bodies of water as if they have a gator in them.

    Granted, we’re talking about an idiot that would swim with alligators. So that part might be true, but a lot of this story is suspect to me.

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      6 hours ago

      I think OP is misremembering a story where a drunk Texan jumps in a lake full of gators and promptly gets eaten.

      https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomas-golianopoulos/fuck-that-gator

      Not scared of gators as most around here are slightly smaller than me, won’t attack. But fuck me, a 10-FOOTER?!

      Saw one at the local swamp for the first time! Knew there had to be one in there but never got eyes on it.