miamizsun wrote:


about halfway there's a tower you can go up into and see some whopper dinosaurs in the pond/lake
it's hard to judge just how big they are, but they're usually....

...noticeably larger than most you'll see on the trail/loop

 
I sure hope so after that description!

I’m watching AKC.tv ... the national dock diving championships. My good friend and her two dogs are nationally ranked! Go Reesie and Saffron!

 kcar wrote:
 
I knew the gator was dissected, I was just speculating - based on the stories of salt water crocodiles in northern Australia that use Mandrax to relax their prey.  I was guessing that Mr. Meth was dumped there after having the bad manners to die in someone's car/trailer/flop-house.  They may have thought it would be easier to drop him out in the glades than to try to explain a dead guy to the cops.  It is Florida after all.

 kcar wrote: 

well there's no way around the fact that it is a very large critter

they don't get much longer 14-15 feet maybe and that's probably rare

but they gain more girth and can get quite a bit heavier (esp males/bulls)

if you're ever in south florida try and make a trip to shark valley (winter is the best time)

rent a bike or take the tram on 15 mile loop through the glades

about halfway there's a tower you can go up into and see some whopper dinosaurs in the pond/lake

it's hard to judge just how big they are, but they're usually noticeably larger than most you'll see on the trail/loop

 Proclivities wrote:
 

As the article notes, the gator was trapped, killed and cut open. Mr. Meth's foot and hand were found inside. Apparently the animal attacked the man's body after he'd died.

Who would drop off a tweaker in swamp? And why? 

I don't know if 450 pounds and 12 feet is big for a gator, but that's 450 pounds and 12 feet too much for me. Cannot stand beasts like that.

 miamizsun wrote:
 
That "drop-off" scenario seems very likely.  I hope the gator's okay; if he starts showing up late for work there may be a problem.

 kcar wrote: 

how did get out into the glades?

generally not a lot of methheads hanging out in the swamp

he may have been dropped off

 kcar wrote:
 

Was the alligator tweaking when it was found? Then again, it may have been a DEA gator

Bad luck, Florida-style. At first the coroner thought the guy had drowned but no. 

Kids: don't do meth near the water or alligators! Stay safe and addicted! 



Florida man found eaten by alligator actually died from meth overdose, officials say


The Florida man who was found partially eaten by an alligator earlier this year died from a meth overdose — not a gator attack, as was speculated, according to autopsy results.

Read in Fox News: https://apple.news/ADn6Mo5IoT1aWAlIqvzvQ1A

 sunybuny wrote: 

 miamizsun wrote:
 
Yes sir..... the world sends us their problem children then wonders what is wrong with us.  

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
it's not the site

it's florida

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 It works fine in previews, the substitution is not made until the post is actually submitted.  It's not just URLs either.  You can't actually get two consecutive minus signs to appear anywhere in a post.   It's fine with a space between them "- -", but put them together and it comes out "—"(this actually was two minus signs every time I previewed it). I've tried single quotes, double quotes, using character codes, and every other standard technique I know but to no avail.  There is just no way to get minus sign minus sign to print anywhere on this site.  It doesn't cause much of a problem with normal text and in fact is kind of a nice feature there, but it kills URLs.  You just have to notice it and create an alias for the URL.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
It  seems to only happen when there are two hyphens (or 2 minus signs) in the URL - they get re-interpreted as an m-spaced dash.  It's similar to how some word processing programs interpret two dashes as an m-dash or turn three consecutive periods into an ellipsis.  It would do that on the older site too but , like P_SOB said, it's uncommon; most URLs don't have those problem characters.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote:
 

Bizarre. On the old site, I simply places the copied url between url brackets and it worked fine.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
It's not the new site that's broken.  This bug/feature has been around as long as I've been here and is obviously in code that is common to both sites.  As rarely as it crops up I don't think I'd spend much time looking for it either.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote:
 

So, the new site's link function doesn't work. Terrific.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Your link doesn't work because its URL contains two consecutive minus signs and no matter what you do the RP text editor is going to convert them into an m dash when the page is rendered.  The only work around I know of is to use something like tinyURL to create another URL that that redirects to the one you want.  Like this.

Today's Florida Man

 miamizsun wrote: 
May have went. MAY HAVE WENT! WTF!