I was literally on the 80sxchange when this happened.

When you think you think your life can't get any stranger.........


I think I was talking to someone on here about this, but I live about half the time on an old 1947 Chris Craft boat that I am restoring. Anyway April (girlfriend) goes to work at 0200, so I have gotten in the habit of staying up until she leaves. I was just checking in with the 80sxchange since I am addicted now, and I heard this horrible scream. It was April, and I have never heard her raise her voice, much less scream. I run out of the boat and jump up on the marina. She is screaming "Snake, HUGE snake!" I can hear it hissing really loud. I jump back in the boat grab a flashlight and a pistol. I can see the tail when I come back up and it is following her as she backs up. I get the light on it and it is about a 5 foot gator. Not huge, but enough to be respected. He is in a foul mood too, snapping and hissing and banging his tail on everything. She jumps on my neighbor's boat and he tries to climb the bow to get in with her. Now she is really flipping out, I almost laughed because she is the calmest human I have ever met, it was comical. I kicked his tail so he would turn around and he did. I took one of the big whip antenna's that I had just taken off my boat the day before and started whacking him with it. He finally decided this was unpleasant and slipped off in the water.

Once these guys eat at a place they always come back, hope we don't have to get any rougher with him. Think I won't look around when I get off the boat tomorrow? As for April, she smoothed out her hair, picked up her purse, and went to work without saying a word. That is why I love her.

How was your night?

That's quite a story, BigCozy!!! I'm sure your girlfriend was indeed flipping out!!! Last summer, I was at my mother's house on Lake Moultrie. We were having an outdoor barbecue and my mom was cooking on the grill and I was inside with some other family members when I heard my mother yelling. A small alligator had crawled up onto the deck and was more or less demanding to be fed!!! Needless to say, my mother was horrified!!! :eek: We had to call animal control who arrived about an hour and a half later, by which time the alligator had decided to move on. Animal control didn't spot him so he must have gone back into the lake! The rest of the afternoon went quite nicely with a funny story to tell!!! :lol:

I saw a snake once (not a poisinous one) and was followed by a hornet later that day ;) .... That's about the drama involving wild animals you'll find in li'l ol' Denmark.

Is gator attacks common where you're from BC ??? From you're story it sounded like this was pretty normal, and whacking gators is almost everyday business ....

Me, I would have fried up that gator and had me a good meal. LOL

Originally posted by bigcozy
As for April, she smoothed out her hair, picked up her purse, and went to work without saying a word. That is why I love her.


HAHHA That's the funny part of the story for me! Sounds like a scene from a cartoon. Hysterical one minute and calm and composed the next.

Originally posted by 80sSmurf
I saw a snake once (not a poisinous one) and was followed by a hornet later that day ;) .... That's about the drama involving wild animals you'll find in li'l ol' Denmark.


Isn't it nice to live in a country where the wildest animals are those you are sharing your bed with? :D :lol:

Whoa! Quite a story!

Originally posted by jen*
Me, I would have fried up that gator and had me a good meal. LOL

Me too, it's yummy! :D I've only had it on vacations.

:licky: I love aligator meat.. tastes like chicken :lol:

I remember seeing a gator, real close, down in Fla. when I was a teenager.. My dad & I were walking near a golf course and we saw him near the side of a pond. (I think that's were your golf balls go when you can't find 'em, the gator eats them :lol: ) We see the gator starting to run after something and for a moment thought it was us.... I never ran so fast in my life!! :eek: lol

Damn...and I want to move to Florida! :laugh: You're right though Jen....cook 'em up!!!

Good thing it wasn't a croc or you would have really been in trouble.

Reminds me of my family tree, some of my relatives have been compiling. There was someone further back in our lineage who died in Australia. Next to his name is the word "Crocodile" and nothing else. :eek:

Originally posted by jen*
Me, I would have fried up that gator and had me a good meal. LOL

That must be a true spicy Cajun dish, right jen-jen*?!? ')

Originally posted by Recker
Reminds me of my family tree, some of my relatives have been compiling. There was someone further back in our lineage who died in Australia. Next to his name is the word "Crocodile" and nothing else. :eek:

Woh! Crikey! :eek:

Hey, the Crocodile Hunter has nothin on you! lol

Gators are fairly common in the summer on the river I am on. You treat them about like a mean dog, until they get over 6ft, then you have to be careful. If you aren't in the water and they aren't all that big, they aren't usually much trouble. This is only the second one I have seen this year. Sometimes they start feeding on the trash at the marina, then you pretty much have to finish them or people's dogs start dissappearing and you have to keep the kids out of the water.

The boat and what it costs and the time I am putting into it has been a sore spot with April. Now its a crisis. She has refused to come near it. If it sounds like I was mean, I wasn't, she was never in any real danger. It was actually very funny.

80sSmurf, it isn't the gators you have to worry about. Its the water moccasins. They are everywhere, I have seen several in the 5ft-6ft range this year. They hide under everything and they swim very fast, and can get super aggressive. The worst thing out here is the heat, then the mosquito's. Gators, snakes, and April's wrath can be lethal however.

Originally posted by 80sTrivia


That must be a true spicy Cajun dish, right jen-jen*?!? ')

You know I'm kidding, right??? I've actually had gator meat a couple of times at restaurants, once at Cenlabration (a carnival on the river levee in September of every year), and at a gator farm just south of Natchitoches (pronounced Nack-a-dish).

If it's cooked right, it's very tender and has a good flavor. If not, it tastes like rubber. :yucky:

Originally posted by bigcozy
.... and April's wrath can be lethal however.

Oh yeah we got those too, except here they are called Karina ;) :lol:

Originally posted by jen*


You know I'm kidding, right??? I've actually had gator meat a couple of times at restaurants, once at Cenlabration (a carnival on the river levee in September of every year), and at a gator farm just south of Natchitoches (pronounced Nack-a-dish).

If it's cooked right, it's very tender and has a good flavor. If not, it tastes like rubber. :yucky:


I sort of thought you were kidding, jen*! Can't imagine myself even tasting gator meat, though!!! :yucky:

Natchitoches, that's the town where they filmed Steel Magnolias, right? Lovely little place!!! :)

Originally posted by 80sTrivia
Natchitoches, that's the town where they filmed Steel Magnolias, right? Lovely little place!!! :)

Right-o! Steel Magnolias was filmed right there on the Cane River. If you drive through the residential district in Natchitoches, it looks just like in the movie. Nothing has changed. It's beautiful.

This reminds me of the time we had a huge snapping turtle in our back yard. It took quite awhile for the people to take it away. When we found it my mom poked it with a stick and bit it in half.

Interesting story.

Originally posted by 80sSmurf


Oh yeah we got those too, except here they are called Karina ;) :lol:

Does she read your postings from time to time? :D

Dude, that is flippin crazy. Unless I'm in a pool you wont catch me in the water. Jaws flippin ruined me......

Geez, all I have for critters this summer are raccoons and fox and they are pains in the behind at the most.

Good luck getting April back in that boat... you mentioned a condo... work on your boat during the day LOL :)

I saw an Aligator once on Sanibel Island in Florida. I was learning to drive in the game reserve and I had to stop and check out the little guy sunning himself on the otherside of the little pond. He moved in my general direction and ran back to the car :p My brush with death.

I can't believe you wacked it with an antenna :laugh:

Where's Steve Erwin (Crocodile Hunter) when you need em'? :hammer:

That was some story. Over here I avoid the snakes and the gators. Gators are a whole lot faster than they look when their just laying out to catch some sunrays at the zoo. Sometimes they like getting into peoples yards around here. :eek:

nice of you that you did`t shoot it.
All I use against animals is a fly-swatter. Even the flie notice that
and dissapears through the window.
Many of the injured animals dissapear from the view, whatever happens then to them.

And last but not least there might be another funny show with
the alarm cause........
(.....here comes the heroe with the stick again!) :cool: :( :hammer: