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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Like something out of fieldwork fail.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago

If you put the hat on his head, it was a gift and he's not stealing anything. No take-backsies!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alligator: I've warned you Jeff, next time you put your stupid Indiana Jones hat on me I'm gonna put it in the river!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

When something like a hat may actually cost you an arm and a leg.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I sense a Paddington style movie coming...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Already exist Lyle Lyle Crocodile

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Wow, memory unlocked! I haven't thought about those books since I was a kid!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In college I did my internship working at a reptile house that did educational events at schools, libraries, fairs, etc. We had several alligators but only one that was allowed to wander the grounds (supervised). The property has a creek with high banks running through it that is all snow melt in the summer, and it was my job to go drag Spike out of the water and into the sun when he'd go sit in the icy water too long and couldn't get himself back over the bank.

Seeing that person with a gator by the tail trying to keep it out of the water brings that all flooding back. Spike wasn't that big though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did Spike know his name, also did he respond to it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'm my few months there I don't think he responded to his name, but he knew the sound of us yelling at him from across the field - that would get his attention.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Happens to people all the time on the bayou here, but we probably don't have conservation instructors, so I suppose the sentence is still unique.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Alligators steal hats all the time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

All the time around here... what, do you think I would just come on the internet and lie?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's how you tell them apart from crocodiles

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're in North America, not Egypt. One exists here, the other doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

At least my way, I get to keep my hat!

Also, I'm a geek, thanks. Geek = highly trained nerd.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what's better: The alligator wearing the hat, the conservation instructor seemingly grabbing its tail to stop it, or the alligator just not giving a shit and carrying on with its day.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

God day sir, I said good day!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

What's the charge? Eating a hat? A succulent conservationist hat‽