[SpamCop-Social] Re: Blame the animals?

[Borgholio]

"Craig" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> Tonight as I was driving home from work (this time it took me less than
two
> hours...see other post), I was listening to one of the local afternoon
> drive talk radio shows.  They brought up that horrible story from Florida
> where that kid was recently killed by a gator.  They mentioned that the
> authorities have captured and killed 7 gators in that same river, trying
to
> find the one(s) that might have eaten from the body.  I am not a bleeding
> heart or anything but this really ticked me off.  Yeah it is a bad story,
> but why blame the gators?  They were in their own environment, doing what
> comes natural to them....hunting food.  And who knows, maybe with the kid
> splashing around, the gator might have taken him for a wounded animal,
thus
> an easy target.  I dunno, that does not make sense.  Is this just another
> example of the "push the blame off of somebody else" generation?
> (example...lawsuits against fastfood places for making them fat)  If I
> lived in Florida, I would drill it into my kids heads that they should not
> swim in rivers, ponds or other bodies of dark murky water, since after all
> it is gator country.
>
> Craig

I agree.  I mean who in their right mind would swim in murky water, at
night, in an area where gators were seen the same day, during alligator
mating season?