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Paramount
rank | Sun Nov 22 11:10:14 2020 (CNN)In a dramatic encounter recorded by surveillance cameras, a Florida man chased an alligator under water and rescued his 3-month-old puppy from the jaws of death. Richard Wilbanks, 74, of Estero ran into his backyard pond, wrestled the gator above surface, and pried its jaws open to free Gunner, his Cavalier King Charles spaniel. "We were just out walking by the pond," Wilbanks told CNN, "and it came out of the water like a missile. I never thought an alligator could be that fast. It was so quick." He said adrenaline or instinct kicked in, and "I just automatically jumped into the water." Holding the alligator wasn't so tough, but prying open the jaws was "extremely hard," he said. Wilbanks said his hands were "chewed up," and he went to a doctor for a tetanus shot. Gunner was mostly unharmed. http://edi...ligator-rescue-trnd/index.html |
habebe
rank | Sun Nov 22 11:15:12 2020 This is why Muricans are tougher than Euros. When was the last time a 74 year old German rescued their pet from the jaws of death.Thats kind of gangster. |
Nimatzo
rank | Sun Nov 22 11:22:13 2020 Habeb Oh I’m sorry, you must have fallen and wooped your head. Cue the reel of Swedish men scaring off moose and bear, UNARMED. Pffft, alligators are known to be pussies. Let me see you do that with a salt water croc. |
habebe
rank | Sun Nov 22 11:29:45 2020 Are you talking to me? I dont see anyone else and you addressed me so onguess so. O grew up fighting sharks, great whites. I was actually taught Chun Nuk Do by a stunt double for the Jaws. My sensei for Chucks Norrises martial art was a fucking great white shark! |
Paramount
rank | Sun Nov 22 11:30:07 2020 Mooses can be pretty dangerous. They will run into you and then kick at your head. One kick and you are basically dead. |
Habebe
rank | Sun Nov 22 11:39:43 2020 No mooses down south. Crazy amounts of snakes and spiders. Bunch of wierd bugs. Coyotes and gators are probably the biggest critters to worry about. I also recently found out that Pit vipers can still strike when they are too cold to really move. The majority of thr snakes on my property are Copperheads, Ive personally killed about 20 in the last year and a half, 15 of which when I first got down here and started cleaning up the yard.Had to keep a loaded shotgun and a roofing pike to move shit. |
Paramount
rank | Sun Nov 22 13:08:26 2020 Do you have ticks also? . |
patom
rank | Sun Nov 22 14:35:57 2020 Paramount, in Maine we have ticks, coyotes, Moose, deer, bear, geese, turkey, bob cats, Lynx, no poisonous snakes though. |
Daemon
rank | Sun Nov 22 14:36:57 2020 "When was the last time a 74 year old German rescued their pet from the jaws of death." One of a million examples: http://www...-stole-his-laptop-2766863.html |
patom
rank | Sun Nov 22 14:47:09 2020 The gator wasn't all that big. I would have done the same thing. |
Paramount
rank | Sun Nov 22 15:10:18 2020 Ticks are like the most dangerous animal in Sweden. I think they are the cause of the most nuisance per year in Sweden. Moose, wolves and bears doesn’t come close. |
Dukhat
rank | Sun Nov 22 16:55:27 2020 Mooses have been dying off in droves because of climate change in America. Tick colonies are moving much farther north now due to the lack of cold and sucking huge moose dry. The rangers have had their hands full trying to manage them for the last few years. |
chuck
rank | Sun Nov 22 18:08:55 2020 Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti |
habebe
rank | Sun Nov 22 18:21:59 2020 We have ticks down here. But they are not very prevalent.But I also dont hike as much here so maybe they are and I just dont realize it. |
obaminated
rank | Sun Nov 22 20:03:58 2020 Mooses is not a word, you uneducated moron. |
obaminated
rank | Sun Nov 22 20:07:37 2020 Also steve irwin wrestled gators all the time. It was the damn stingrays that got him. Fun fact, if he had left the barb from the stingray in his heart and gone to the hospital he likely would have lived. Pulling it out is why it killed him in minutes. Same general principle as leaving a knife in the wound and getting medical help rather than yanking it out and trying to stem the bleeding. |
habebe
rank | Sun Nov 22 20:34:20 2020 What was really impressive to me was that this guy was 74 and wrestled a gator. |
renzo marQuez
rank | Sun Nov 22 20:55:28 2020 Nimatzo iChihuaha Sun Nov 22 03:22:13 "Habeb Oh I’m sorry, you must have fallen and wooped your head. Cue the reel of Swedish men scaring off moose and bear, UNARMED." Wouldn't try to save a Swedish women from a pack of feral rapefugees tho. |
Nimatzo
rank | Sun Nov 22 22:11:54 2020 Obaminated is correct, the plural for moose is meese. |
patom
rank | Sun Nov 22 23:18:34 2020 The danger with ticks is Lyme disease. My wife had a touch of it last year and was on strong antibiotics. Lucky we caught it early. This year we only got 4 ticks, one of them was on my fat ass. Found it while I was taking a shower. we keep a container with alcohol to throw them in. Last year we found close to a dozen. |
obaminated
rank | Sun Nov 22 23:35:47 2020 No it is not, the plural for moose is moose. |
habebe
rank | Sun Nov 22 23:53:40 2020 I'm pretty sure Nimatzo was joking. |
obaminated
rank | Mon Nov 23 00:06:28 2020 Whoosh on me then |
jergul
rank | Mon Nov 23 06:18:48 2020 One moose, meese, a pod of meese. You know, like a gaggle of whales, or a murder of hens. |
The Children
rank | Mon Nov 23 09:26:36 2020 wrestled with "baby alligator" fixed the title. |
Nimatzo
rank | Mon Nov 23 15:52:43 2020 I thought moose were related to geese. You learn every day, you know, like Ben Franklin invented electricity. None of this is real any way, it's all chemicals in your brain. |
Nimatzo
rank | Mon Nov 23 15:54:10 2020 :D |
Paramount
rank | Mon Nov 23 16:43:44 2020 Goose - Geese Moose - Meese |
Dakyron
rank | Mon Nov 23 17:23:06 2020 Ben Franklin is the DEVIL! |
habebe
rank | Mon Nov 23 21:45:51 2020 Ben Franklin was the founder of ISIS. |
patom
rank | Mon Nov 23 21:47:42 2020 Speaking of critters: http://ban...te-on-mountain-lions-in-maine/ It seems every year there are random reports of mountain lions in Maine. It's possible but with the numbers of people wandering all over the Maine woods year round I still find it highly unlikely. |
habebe
rank | Tue Nov 24 06:58:14 2020 Holy shit, has anyone actually seen the video? the guy doesnt even take the cigar out of his mouth while " wrestling" the gator. To add context he picka the gator up with his hands, so it is small. Definitley gangster as dhitt though for 74 year old, watch the video. |
habebe
rank | Tue Nov 24 06:58:15 2020 Holy shit, has anyone actually seen the video? the guy doesnt even take the cigar out of his mouth while " wrestling" the gator. To add context he picka the gator up with his hands, so it is small. Definitley gangster as dhitt though for 74 year old, watch the video. |
Paramount
rank | Tue Nov 24 19:49:05 2020 Gangsta would be if you were walking your puppy in the woods, and if a bear attacked your puppy and you wrestled with the bear to free your puppy from its jaws. |
Paramount
rank | Tue Nov 24 19:53:11 2020 So I decided to google meese to see if it actually means anything. Wiki says: Plural of moose, by analogy with goose → geese. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meese moose (plural moose or (dated, rare) mooses or (non-standard, jocular) meese) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moose So I guess you can say moose, mooses or meese. All of them would be correct? |
Dakyron
rank | Wed Nov 25 18:20:45 2020 Moose is correct. If you say mooses, you are an old fart(patom). If you say meese, you are a stupid fucktard(habebe). That is what it means. |
habebe
rank | Wed Nov 25 22:49:15 2020 Dakyron again showing he types before he reads... |
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