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

[Bill Moore]

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 some student on Team 116 is beginning to sprout the seedling of an idea for the Ultimate Practical Joke!

Take video folks, we all want to see it!

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by Bill Moore

. . . . and some student on Team 116 is beginning to sprout the seedling of an idea for the Ultimate Practical Joke!

Take video folks, we all want to see it!

And my sister lives in the same town as 116... Anyone need a nice fresh supply of Florida Gator? I'll even transport it there myself on my next trip there...

[tiffany34990]

hmm critters here in the sunny florida...

love bugs always fun... spiders... okay not so much fun... alligators.. i don't see them much by me... too many fire ants at times.. mosquitos..they just love me... all the various snakes... turtles.. the crazy ducks... the frogs..toads (man those can get huge esp at South Fork)... more and more bugs/insects... land crabs chasing you... goats running through your school.. too many lizards to count...wild pigs.... cows in the street.... always fun too...

ya sunny florida is a fun place to be you just know you wanna visit

the critters sometime get into the school/house...but all well... in the end it's all good

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by dlavery

I was recently thinking about this thread, and just sitting there calmly musing on the possibilities of beautiful Gulf coast sunsets, warm weather, life on the beach, etc. etc. etc. Until a friend at Kennedy Space Center sent me this image:


It seems that wildlife activity is picking up around KSC. It is normal for gators to be on the move this time of year, looking for a nice watering hole to settle in to. However, walking into your shop in the morning and finding this guy looking back at you is NOT what I would call normal! It seems that someone forgot to close all the doors to the high voltage shop the evening before, and "Bubba" wandered in during the night. The guy that found him was only a few feet away when he realized what was on the floor (the lights were off except in the office area). Yikes!

I guess I will never complain about the rats in the streets in D.C. again!

-dave

The industrial sized insects are enough to make me want to stay out of Florida (at least to visit but not likely to live there).

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

The industrial sized insects are enough to make me want to stay out of Florida (at least to visit but not likely to live there).

They're not that big...

*pulls out 5 foot diameter fly swatter and smacks the giant insect sitting in chair next to him*

I'll be back, I've gotta clean up this mess...

[Koko Ed]

At least it aint South America where there are things like Bird eating spiders (the size of plates *shudders*) Bullet Ants (think bigger meaner Fire Ants) Piranhas and Anacondas.