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Looks like I got another phrase to add to my list of idiotic last words, "Fuck That Alligator". As a new listing, it has a long way to go to catch up with the leader, "Hey, watch this", as most frequently used.
Texas Gator Kills Man in Orange, Ending a 179-Year Streak
by John Nova Lomax
Mon July 6, 2015 11:53 am
http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-p...n-orange-ending-179-year-streak#disqus_thread
As several readers have pointed out, we jinxed it.
On July 2 at 12:51 p.m. we posted an article about how Texas hasn’t suffered a fatal alligator attack since the last days of Mexican dominion in the wet, eventful April of 1836.
But fourteen hours later, tragically, horrifically, the 179-year streak came to an end:
Police in Orange say they responded to a report of an alligator attack at about 2:30 a.m. Friday at Burkart’s Marina on Adams Bayou, off Mississippi Street in Orange.
Police say witnesses at the scene told them a 28-year-old man was attacked by a large alligator. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene with a boat along with a Game Warden from Texas Parks and Wildlife. The man’s body was located at about 4:30 a.m. not far from the area where he was attacked.
More details emerged over the weekend. The last words of the victim, Tommie Woodward, a shipyard worker transplanted from Pacific, Missouri, are for the ages, a situation-specific variation of the punchline “Hold my beer and watch this”:
Employees at the marina had erected the sign in recent days after spotting a “pretty damn big” 11-foot alligator in the area, Orange County Police Captain Robert Enmon told BuzzFeed News.Police have not yet determined if alcohol played a factor.
A woman with Woodward warned him not to enter the water because of the risk, prompting him to reply “F*** that alligator,” Enmon said.
Just before he jumped in, the woman spotted the gator, Enmon said. Woodward was attacked almost immediately.
On his Facebook memorial page, Woodward was described as an “Avid Beer Connoisseur”
Yes. it allows the family to convince themselves that if he'd been sober, he'd have had the judgment not to leap in harm's way.Or is that the Police polite way of saying "We currently don't know if he was just that fucking dumb of an idiot or if he was a fucking idiot because of alcohol."
I like the article. "Police have not yet determined if alcohol player a factor."
I'm pretty certain that the cause of death was "a big fucking lizard" and not alcohol.
Or is that the Police polite way of saying "We currently don't know if he was just that fucking dumb of an idiot or if he was a fucking idiot because of alcohol."
Yeah, but WITH alcohol, you don't even have to be an idiot to go out and idiot all over the place.Idiots appear to be idiots regardless of the presence or absence of alcohol.
Yeah, but WITH alcohol, you don't even have to be an idiot to go out and idiot all over the place.Idiots appear to be idiots regardless of the presence or absence of alcohol.
Probably more than a few.So...given a few too many glasses of communion Vino under the belt, the Pope himself is likely to lift his skirts and Moon the Christmas public assembly in St Peters Square?
Looks like I got another phrase to add to my list of idiotic last words, "Fuck That Alligator". As a new listing, it has a long way to go to catch up with the leader, "Hey, watch this", as most frequently used.
But the sign clearly says "No swimming alligators"
But the sign clearly says "No swimming alligators"
So are you making the alligation that it was breaking the rules?