R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Some years ago not long after moving here, I was out in the garage
working one afternoon. The marsh is maybe 30ft from the garage, I heard
this bellowing sound coming from out there so I walked over to see what
it might be. It was low tide so I walked out in the marsh a bit, among
the needlerush, to see if I could see or hear anything. A minute or so
later I hear the bellowing pretty close by and see the needlerush moving
around. Decided I should probably move. Later on I did some lookups on
the googs and discovered this was alligator mating season and that was
their mating sound, the males go on the move, will go into brackish
water or the marsh or even the ocean lookin fer love. Not sure how big
it was but I did not want to find out.
--FT
On 8/22/18 10:21 AM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
How have you managed to survive?
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote:
It wasn't even a big one, only an 8 footer. There's some 12
footers live around here, used to be bigger ones back when.
A golfer lost an arm a few years back, trying to get a ball that
was in a pond, or next to it. Beaufort maybe? chompchomp
--FT
On 8/22/18 10:01 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
A woman died Monday morning in a suspected alligator attack on
Hilton Head
Island in South Carolina, police said.
The woman, identified as Cassandra Cline, 45, according to
South Carolina’s
The State
<https://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article217007570.html
<https://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article217007570.html>>, was
walking her dog near a lagoon at Sea Pines Plantation when a large
alligator apparently attacked her.
“She did not have the dog on a leash, and when she went to go
retrieve the
dog, the gator came out of the water, grabbed her by the arm
and pulled her
into the water,” a golf club employee, who does not wish to be
identified,
told HuffPost.
Police were dispatched to the scene around 9:30 a.m.her body,”
the Beaufort
County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release
<https://local.nixle.com/alert/6756610/?sub_id=9412184
<https://local.nixle.com/alert/6756610/?sub_id=9412184>>. The
cause of death
is pending.
A maintenance man is said to have witnessed the attack, which was
reportedly recorded on surveillance video. Authorities said
the woman’s dog
was not harmed.
Sam Chappalear of South Carolina’s Department of Natural
Resources told The
State that the alligator believed responsible for the attack
was caught and
euthanized.
<https://www.facebook.com/SeaPinesLiving/posts/1903758146347212
<https://www.facebook.com/SeaPinesLiving/posts/1903758146347212>>
David Lucas, a department spokesman, told HuffPost that
verified human
fatalities from alligators are “extremely rare.”
In July 2016, a 90-year-old woman was found dead in a
retention pond behind
an assisted living facility in Charleston County. The
coroner’s office
concluded that she died because of “multiple sharp and blunt force
injuries.”
At the time, her death was called the first of its kind in the
state in
decades.
“The injuries are consistent with those which could be
inflicted by an
alligator and our investigation has confirmed that an
alligator was
involved in the decedent’s death,” Charleston County Coroner
Rae Wooten
told The Post and Courier
<https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/death-of--year-old-woman-attributed-to-gator/article_cf599395-33b3-5bea-8d07-44381f57733b.html
<https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/death-of--year-old-woman-attributed-to-gator/article_cf599395-33b3-5bea-8d07-44381f57733b.html>>
in
2016.
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