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I'm going to go with this being factual. It's not like anything on the Internet is made up or anything
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@nadnerB can confirm, I lived in Florida for about 6 years.
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@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I'm going to go with this being factual. It's not like anything on the Internet is made up or anything
Had a FL Warden grab me and pull me back from what I was doing. I'd crossed over the little 1.5" or 2" bar that was about 3" off the ground so looked more like a suggestion than an actual DO NOT GO HERE type of thing.
There was a good 6' to 7' or more 'gator lying there that I wanted to get some pics of.
I'm sure if he could he would have called me a fucking ID10T right there but he was pretty polite about it. My buddy just stood there laughing. He was probably waiting for the bite. Bugger ...
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@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I'm going to go with this being factual. It's not like anything on the Internet is made up or anything
Had a FL Warden grab me and pull me back from what I was doing. I'd crossed over the little 1.5" or 2" bar that was about 3" off the ground so looked more like a suggestion than an actual DO NOT GO HERE type of thing.
There was a good 6' to 7' or more 'gator lying there that I wanted to get some pics of.
I'm sure if he could he would have called me a fucking ID10T right there but he was pretty polite about it. My buddy just stood there laughing. He was probably waiting for the bite. Bugger ...
Your buddy was waiting on the gator to get you... At that point, HE would have been the one taking pictures.
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@PhlipElder closest call I had in FL was nearly stepping on a HUGE rattlesnake on a golf course... luckily, he was in the process of eating a toad that was the size of a cantaloupe.
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@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder closest call I had in FL was nearly stepping on a HUGE rattlesnake on a golf course... luckily, he was in the process of eating a toad that was the size of a cantaloupe.
Yikes!
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@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder closest call I had in FL was nearly stepping on a HUGE rattlesnake on a golf course... luckily, he was in the process of eating a toad that was the size of a cantaloupe.
I went to one of the last Ignite events in Orlando where there was a hurricane in the Gulf. I don't remember what it was called. Flights were screwy all over. When we eventually landed in Dallas (we were redirected initially to another airport to land and wait due to fuel concerns) there were no more flights to Orlando but one had room to Fort Meyers.
Distance from Fort Meyers to Orlando = Edmonton to Calgary here. I've done that drive a lot so rented a Grand Caravan as I was pretty tired by then and didn't need 400bhp under the saddle.
The GPS unit was too small. I missed the Interstate. I missed the next highway. I ended up taking the last one that would get me there but it went through every Tom, Dick, and Harry little town imagineable.
I got to see Troopers wrestling a big brawl in the street in one town.
In another, a big Ford 3500 dually Super Duty was driving with no lights so I flashed him a few times but he kept going. County Mounty took off from a gas station in front of me, crossed across my path while turning the cherries on, and headed off to stop the SD.
In one town the GPS took me through an area that brought back memories. Heh ... No more comment there.
But, the creme de la creme ...
I'd just left a town with the street lights behind me. It's about 0200Hrs or thereabouts by now. I'm tired but am on the last leg to Orlando. So, clear pavement with a number of lanes in both directions. There's a moon so I can see pretty good plus the Grand Caravan's lights are pretty good.
I see what I think is a Y pipe. Huh?
Someone dropped their Y pipe?
Nothing I could do as I didn't want to swerve to miss as that'd probably be worse than just hitting it.
BANG! BUMP, bump, bump, bump. The van literally jumped around while it went under.
I pulled over to make sure there was no oil pissing down. Nothing. Nada. Zippo. Zilch.
I got back in the van and sat there for a bit playing it over and over. SOaB. The thing MOVED after I hit it heading off to my right and ... it was a freaking huge gator.
The Y was its tail and its legs as I approached. It was sitting perfectly in line on the road.I LOVE telling that one to my fellow Canucks as it's HILARIOUS. I hit a freaking GATOR! LoL
EDIT: BTW, talking to Floridians at the event they thought I was nuts that I thought it was hilarious but they told me it was fairly common and that gators were very resilient. They also told me to never get out of the vehicle again as the gator could have been right p*ssed waiting to swallow me. :0)
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EDIT: BTW, talking to Floridians at the event they thought I was nuts that I thought it was hilarious but they told me it was fairly common and that gators were very resilient. They also told me to never get out of the vehicle again as the gator could have been right p*ssed waiting to swallow me. :0)Sounds about like hitting a deer here, expect the whole swallowing thing.
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EDIT: BTW, talking to Floridians at the event they thought I was nuts that I thought it was hilarious but they told me it was fairly common and that gators were very resilient. They also told me to never get out of the vehicle again as the gator could have been right p*ssed waiting to swallow me. :0)Sounds about like hitting a deer here, expect the whole swallowing thing.
We were heading in to town early one morning. We'd just turned on to the two lane highway after a black RAM 1500 went by.
We were about 10-15 car lengths behind him coming up to speed.
We have a massive Canadian Bull Moose and his haram living around us.
The bugger decided to cross the highway in front of the RAM in front of us. All I could see was the truck's brake lights. That's it. The truck was engulfed by the moose.
The driver was fortunate to have missed the moose just barely.
When we caught up to him in town I asked him if he needed to change his pants after clarifying that we were behind him. Yeah. He was still shaking a bit too.
Deer weren't too bad this fall. It was weird. Moose not too bad either. It was a relatively quiet fall for animal hits around us. We're 15 minutes from the nearest town to the south and about 30 minutes from the city to the east of us.
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@PhlipElder I haven't seen too many deer this year, but the coyotes keep sounding closer and closer...
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@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@PhlipElder I haven't seen too many deer this year, but the coyotes keep sounding closer and closer...
Coyotes around us are really smart. One will set at the head of the drive and yip at a single dog place to sucker the dog out then the pack will jump them. Stripped in minutes.
We have farm fence hung around the property to keep the dog in and the coyotes and foxes out.
That doesn't stop the deer or moose though.
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This was literally just said to me (in type, so I KNOW it is what they said, I did not mishear it) and it is the best misuse of an idiom that there has ever been.
"I believe a clear communication is needed from the gecko."
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@scottalanmiller Maybe autocorrect or bad voice translation?
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
This was literally just said to me (in type, so I KNOW it is what they said, I did not mishear it) and it is the best misuse of an idiom that there has ever been.
"I believe a clear communication is needed from the gecko."
All hail the Gecko of Communication
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@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
This was literally just said to me (in type, so I KNOW it is what they said, I did not mishear it) and it is the best misuse of an idiom that there has ever been.
"I believe a clear communication is needed from the gecko."
All hail the Gecko of Communication
gecko for scale
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
This was literally just said to me (in type, so I KNOW it is what they said, I did not mishear it) and it is the best misuse of an idiom that there has ever been.
"I believe a clear communication is needed from the gecko."
All hail the Gecko of Communication
gecko for scale
I was going for a banana phone... scale AND communications
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