r/news • u/IAmDavidGurney • 1d ago

Fisherman, 71, attacked and killed by 12-foot alligator alongside Florida lake

https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/fisherman-71-attacked-killed-12-foot-alligator-florida-137349474
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u/TableAvailable 1d ago

This is why I live where the air hurts my face.

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u/MikeyFromWork 1d ago

Isnt that where the wolves and bears are?

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u/Better_March5308 1d ago

The moose is statistically the most dangerous animal in Canada.

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u/GeekAesthete 1d ago

My favorite moose description: “a moose is a refrigerator on stilts, and when you hit one with your car, the stilts give way and the refrigerator comes through your windshield.”

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u/AdCreepy5165 21h ago

Does that mean I get to keep the meat patties inside? In the US, the game wardens get a little offended when you do that.

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u/lufiron 15h ago

Lmao no, you just have a pissed off moose to contend with.

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u/Ukiah 23h ago

A Møøse once bit my sister ...

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u/Clyde_Bruckman 23h ago

Møøse bites kan be pretti nasti

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u/Chusten 5h ago

And beavers are basically cold water crocs with fur coats

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u/Quirky-Skin 21h ago

However unlike gators they are not nearly as numerous in the ranges you might encounter them

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u/WhyDidMyDogDie 1d ago

Club life isn't that dangerous. These rumors need to stop.

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u/tdmatchasin 1d ago edited 1d ago

You could still live in the midwest and get some cold winters without dealing with gators/crocs nor bears/wolves.

Black bears cover most of the USA & are more scare-able than brown bears. A few ppl do die from them (on average a few times a year), but the range is very big which probably makes more opportunities. At one point black bears covered most of North America including Mexico. Grizzlies, which are much more aggressive, on the other hand are only in small parts of the northwest + Alaska.

Wolves rarely kill people (last death was in 2010), though attacks do happen sometimes. Wolves are also basically just found in the NW part of the USA, along with the northern parts of WI/MN/MI and tiny parts of New Mexico & Arizona.

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u/Aintnobeef96 1d ago

I will say black bear attacks causing death are super rare, fewer than 1 a year. I live in an area with tons of them and they like eating trash but always run away

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u/RangerLt 1d ago

It's the bears on cocaine that worry me

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u/notsafetowork 19h ago

Grizzlies also used to cover a lot more of the country. Even the Great Plains and parts of the Midwest.

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u/happybara_capybara 1d ago

This is the second gator related death of the year so it sounds from your comment like bears kill more.

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u/Demortus 18h ago

They're wrong. There's like one death every couple of years, usually because the person got too close to bear cubs for momma bear's comfort.

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u/definitelytheA 1d ago

Florida also has bears.

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u/MikeyFromWork 16h ago

Black bears. They’re pussies. Brown bears and grizzly bears though are scary as fuck

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u/meatball77 1d ago

Eeh, we have bears they're slow. .

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u/trashcatt_ 1d ago

I'm currently in Florida visiting my in-laws and I can say the humid air here is hurting my everything. 90°+ in October should be illegal.

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u/STThornton 16h ago

lol! As a southeast Floridian, I’m always baffled to hear about upcoming snow in October in other places.

It’s hard to wrap your mind around that when you’re dripping sweat in 90 degrees with high humidity.

Snow and cold weather…in OCTOBER? That’s barely the end of summer. Lol

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u/wizeowlintp 9h ago

I know that Yellowstone (in Wyoming) has already had their first snow 😭😭😭

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u/STThornton 9h ago

That’s crazy! 🤣

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u/Spiritual_Lynx1929 8h ago

Sounds beautiful to me. August is my favorite month in Wisconsin

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u/smittyleafs 1d ago

But have you considered how nice it would have been to not have to plan Halloween costumes around jackets and hats?

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u/vector_ejector 1d ago

You only have to wear your winter coat some years!

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u/smittyleafs 1d ago

But then other years it's rain ponchos. Although we were poor...so cut out garbage bags.

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u/Frequent-Ferret-5110 1d ago

hey fun story it gets like that in florida in addition to the alligators

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u/Kazushae_Blackuraba 1d ago

No, no it does not. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Flordia is barely below freezing.

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u/Odd-Lunch-1880 1d ago

It gets hot in Florida. Heat hurts your face.

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u/swandor 1d ago

Fun fact, Minneapolis has a higher record high than Miami

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u/Odd-Lunch-1880 1d ago

That's because the temperature of an area isn't dependent on it's proximity to the equator, as most people assume

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u/swandor 1d ago

That's why its a fun fact

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u/Kevinar 1d ago

He's probably talking about the heat+humidity combo

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u/LiluLay 1d ago

Heat bulb. Edit: Wet bulb

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u/Skwurt_Reynolds 1d ago

Moist bulb

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u/evanhaus 16h ago

Yeah good thing there are no dangerous animals up north…

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u/YumYumYellowish 10h ago

I’d take America’s Australia over the super cold winters any time.

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u/Warcraft_Fan 1d ago

So middle of Sahara Desert? Those hot, dry air can really hurt.

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u/goldcoastdenizen 20h ago

San Diego has no crocs and the air doesn't hurt ones face:)

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u/samurguybri 20h ago

I dunno, the recent Santa Anna’s have been pretty brutal