BIG. CRITTERS. IN. FLORIDA!!!! (and you think YOU have pest problems!)

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by RogerR

yeah...they're called banana spiders; they aren't really dangerous, though they seem to have an affinity for weaving webs right at head level on walking trails... i've never heard of anyone ever even bein' bit by one, but i don't think having a spider the size of your hand crawling around your head is a pleasant sensation...luckily, they seem to stick to wooded areas. in miami, you only have to look out for palmetto bugs* and fire ants.

*we only call them "palmetto bugs" around tourists. around other floridians, we just call them (the bugs) "really, really big cockroaches".

Dont forget.."Love Bugs"...

[nehalita]

i see them all the time. (that would be the road...)

[VEN]

it looks like it poo'ed on the floor someone i know keeps a gecko in his pocket...kinda weird...im surprised it hasn't run away....

[Andy A.]

At least hitting an Alligator with your car doesn't come with a high probability of getting killed your self.

When a car hits a Moose at 60 miles an hour, the car, moose and human all loose.

Besides that, a marauding moose in town stays in town till it decides to leave. There just is no shooing them away. It happened not to long ago In Hanover. A moose wandered into town. The police kept people away from it and waited till it wandered back out. There was no use in trying to tranquilize it, since you then need a flat bed and fork lift to move it! Putting it down would be problematic, since the police didn't have a rifle large enough to ensure a clean kill and any rifle big enough to kill a moose is to dangerous to use in a town.

Basically, Moose have free run of New England. And I think they know it.

-Andy A.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Andy A.

At least hitting an Alligator with your car doesn't come with a high probability of getting killed your self.

When a car hits a Moose at 60 miles an hour, the car, moose and human all loose.

Besides that, a marauding moose in town stays in town till it decides to leave. There just is no shooing them away. It happened not to long ago In Hanover. A moose wandered into town. The police kept people away from it and waited till it wandered back out. There was no use in trying to tranquilize it, since you then need a flat bed and fork lift to move it! Putting it down would be problematic, since the police didn't have a rifle large enough to ensure a clean kill and any rifle big enough to kill a moose is to dangerous to use in a town.

Basically, Moose have free run of New England. And I think they know it.

-Andy A.

All I ever needed to learn about the North East/Alaska I learned from Northern Exposure.

[team222badbrad]

Dave, now I just want to know what pictures your friends on Mars have sent back of critters...

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by nehalita

i see them all the time. (that would be the road...)

2 little alligators sitting by the road
1 named Curley
1 named Moe
- Where is Larry? -
Curley asks
-Skinny dipping -
Moe just laughs

[dlavery]

You all seem to be missing the point.

I can handle the alligators in the canals. I can deal with the spiders on the trails. I am OK with the coral snakes in the palmettos. The mosquitoes in the woods are tolerable. I understand the issue associated with a moose and a fast-moving vehicle attempting to occupy the same volume at the same time. I even have no problem with elephants eating the moose that is eating the alligator. All of these things are sensible, logical, and reasonably expected in the appropriate natural setting.

But this alligator does not seem to understand the rules! HE DOES NOT BELONG INSIDE THE BUILDING!!!! Somewhere along the line he seems to have skipped the "outside - good, inside - bad!" lesson. I just CAN NOT get used to the idea of being in my office and wandering down to the water cooler one morning, only to find "Bubba" sitting in the middle of the hallway waiting for me! That just isn't right!!! He is supposed to stay OUTSIDE where he belongs, not inside sipping on Perrier and having a nosh with the secretaries!

-dave

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by dlavery

But this alligator does not seem to understand the rules! HE DOES NOT BELONG INSIDE THE BUILDING!!!! Somewhere along the line he seems to have skipped the "outside - good, inside - bad!" lesson. I just CAN NOT get used to the idea of being in my office and wandering down to the water cooler one morning, only to find "Bubba" sitting in the middle of the hallway waiting for me! That just isn't right!!! He is supposed to stay OUTSIDE where he belongs, not inside sipping on Perrier and having a nosh with the secretaries!

I've seen plenty inside where aren't so posted to be. I guess you get used to it after living in Florida for 8 years...

I've had them in a school class room. For example =]

[JaneYoung]

maybe if you just gave him a nice bath with the Perrier and cleaned some of the algae off of him, revealing his inner gator, you, too, could find peace and be one with 'Bubba' by the cooler.

[dlavery]

I am just sitting here repeating to myself:

Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors...

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by dlavery

I am just sitting here repeating to myself:

Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors...

And Bubba says:

There's no place like home, there's no place like home......

It'll be ok Dave, that's what tomorrow is for.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by dlavery

I am just sitting here repeating to myself:

Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors...

Surround the building with an invisible fence and then find some sucker.....errr, I mean.........volunteer, to put the collar on him!

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by dlavery

I am just sitting here repeating to myself:

Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors...

(on the other hand, greased pigs DO belong in school, running down the main hallway right at lunch time) (it's a long story...)

-dave

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by dlavery

I am just sitting here repeating to myself:

Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors... Gators don't belong indoors...

Oh?