Plenty of gator news lately: You’ve heard, no doubt, about the kid whose head ended up in an alligator’s mouth. The kid punched the gator, which ran away.
Let that be a lesson to you people in Florida. If you’re ever confronted by a gator, hit it really hard in the face. Gators are just chickens in disguise.
Also in Florida, a woman found a 7-foot gator catching some shade under her car. When a trapper tried to remove the gator, it bit the car’s bumper. Maybe you’ve seen the video.
The gator was finally pulled loose, taken out and killed.
When asked by an insurance agent who owned the gator, Carolyn Christian, the car’s owner, said, “I guess God does.”
Christian also said the insurance employee told her this was the first report of gator bite car damage she had received.
According to one gator expert we talked to, another way to get a gator from under your car is to dangle an infant in front of it. That kind of bait, you know, is irresistible to most any big animal.

Posted at May 21, 2004 11:20 AM