7 મે, 2025
"Gator grabbed her out of the canoe. He tried to fight the gator off. We're at the last place he saw her. He left the paddle here where he last saw her at."
Said the cop quoted in "Alligator attacks, kills woman canoeing with her husband on lake in Florida: 'He tried to fight the gator off'" (CBS News).
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Drifting and canoeing down waterways here is extremely popular but there are ALWAYS gators and personally I don't see the attraction of trying to "enjoy nature" such as the hot springs and Crystal River while also being inches from death from a 300-pound predator lurking just out of view.
That being said, my first reaction to this story might have something to do with too many hours spent watching the ID channel. It really is a near-perfect set-up for homicidal spouses of any sex.
Alligators rarely do this sort of thing. They don't "Grab people out of canoes". I wonder if she tossed it some food, or stupidly guided the canoe to the gator and held out some food, like it was a pet bird.
Anyway, too bad. A bad way to die.
The country-western song writes itself.
…I’ll wait for the rest of the story…There’s video of the last high profile lady death by alligator in my town. She was absent-minded walking the dog right next to the water and talking into her phone, oblivious as per usual. The alligator looked like a torpedo coming for the dog. It’s always the dog they’re after. She was between the two and was upended into the water…women seem to love to be scared of alligators. There’s a market for a channel with gator death porn for women…then there’s the couple that put a hunkin deposit on my neighbor’s house for sale then withdrew because the wife discovered there are alligators here. Sorry, non-refundable…
Death by Gator
A woman's nightmare
Dreaded, yet fascinated.
To tell if there are gators in any Florida body of water larger than a small puddle, stick your hand in it.
Is it wet?
If yes it probably has alligators
John Henry
To tell if there are gators in any Florida body of water larger than a small puddle, stick your hand in it.
Is it wet?
If yes it probably has alligators
John Henry
Mating season. I wouldn't go out on a canoe or kayak right now, for sure not on a big lake.
That said, it's an unimaginable tragedy. I've canoed a lot with my wife, something like this would destroy me.
I am trying to imagine a gator doing this. Maybe it would grab her hand, if her hand were in the water, and drag her in.
Two Gators see a canoe
One Gator to the other: "Want to grab some lunch?"
Two Gators see a Canoe with Orthodox Jews.
One gator to the other: "Want to grab some lunch, its kosher"
I am trying to imagine a gator doing this
Me, too. They don’t really leap up out of water like a fish or stingray. I suppose it could upset a canoe with people in it what were freaking out and adding instability.
Had a big gator off my dock this morning on the St Johns River. Up in Rice Creek there are some big bad boys. Neighborhood words of wisdom a human fed gator is a dead gator. They lose their fear of humans and somebody had to kill them. That said, a Gators fave snack is a Labrador in your back yard. A gator can scale a chain link fence faster than you can.
@RCOCEAN II I believe has it correct above at 7.34 am.
Even the superhighways aren't safe, man. Barefoot man wrangles large alligator on busy Florida Freeway
I think we covered this a few days ago. I don't go into inland lakes in Florida. That's what you do in Michigan. Or Wisconsin. Or pretty much any other state, but not here in Florida.
You DO go into the Gulf (on my side of the state). The Gulf is beautiful- warm, calm, no gators. An occasional shark, but it's rare.
Alligators rarely do this sort of thing. They don't "Grab people out of canoes."
This is CBS News bro. They were typing up Texas Air National Guard memos in Microsoft Word and trying to pass them off as 1970s Army memos. All in an effort to rig our elections.
Recently, they got caught editing out an answer during a Kamala Harris interview and editing in the answer to a completely different question. All in an effort to rig our elections.
Nobody should be clicking on anything CBS News produces or watching their "news." It's all fake.
It is Spring, and the big bulls do get aggressive, but attacking a person in a canoe? I'm native Floridian and don't think I've ever heard such a thing.
"This was no boating accident."
“It’s always the dog they’re after.”
Note to self: Always bring dog when canoeing in Florida.
Down in south Orlando, where the alligators prowl in lakes
Lived a girl, that I swear to the world
Soon became known as Gator Cakes
Gator Cakes lady, her husband’s kinda shady
Everybody said it was a shame
The insurance payout’s in her husband’s name
Note to self: no canoeing on Florida lakes.
Iman--You and I share the same cynical perspective.
Years ago a honeymoon couple rented a kayak for a trip off the beach in Hawaii. They got caught in an unexpected current and pushed out to sea. A wind came up and tipped over the kayak. While struggling to right and climb back into said kayak a shark attacked the bride and bit off her arm. The groom removed the drawstring from his trunks and made a makeshift tourniquet to staunch the bleeding. However his beloved died from shock and blood loss. At some point during the night she slipped from his arms and was lost at sea. A day later he and the kayak washed up on another island and he gave a tearful interview about the tragedy. Three days later his late wife washed up on another island.
With both arms!
Shortly after the announcement her body had been located, the groom boarded a plane and left the country.
Not sure if he was ever caught and extradited.
"Florida" Only slightly less dangerous than Australia.
Why is it even a state?
She probably got grabbed and canoes are very tippy when you get yanked. RIP, what an awful way to go, or to see someone go.
Not buying it, husband more likely killed her
I live in North Alabama. When I was a kid, we often swam in the Tennessee river. Today, there are gators in it. Granted, there’s far fewer here than in Florida, but they’re here. In some parts of the state, we also have bull sharks, which can live in fresh or salt water. My swimming is limited to our neighborhood pool these days.
We're at the last place he saw her. He left the paddle here where he last saw her at.
Reminds me of the Captain Jack episode of Leave It to Beaver.
"If you were to fall in the compound, Captain Jack would not bite your arm off. He would saw it off. This concludes your tour. We hope you will come back, and please tell your friends."
"Gator grabbed her out of the canoe. He tried to fight the gator off."
I'd want to get a good look at the man. How hard did he fight? How does he need to look before he's free of suspicion?
How hard would you fight an alligator if it had a hold on your wife? At what point would you think, she's lost and I need to get to shore?
I spend a fair amount of time in Florida, both on land and on water. That includes kayaking on inland lakes. Alligators are literally *everywhere*, and your little lizard brain stem is acutely aware of the threat, although attacks are so rare as to be essentially non-existent. Mating season is a different story, though -- these things are protective, and I've been "warned" away from a nest and it (not quite literally) scared the crap out of me.
We are still the apex predator, though, and if you're so inclined, you can order Gator Tail in most beach restaurants.
I have a policy: I don't eat them, they don't eat me.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said... "Drifting and canoeing down waterways here is extremely popular but there are ALWAYS gators and personally I don't see the attraction of trying to "enjoy nature" such as the hot springs and Crystal River while also being inches from death from a 300-pound predator lurking just out of view."
Ha, I literally grew up (16 years) living in Crystal River. Never an incident I can recall. So the Crystal River Chamber of Commerce and Tourism is telling me to dispute your statement :P
Don't let the manatees fool you though. They're bloodthirsty bastards and would kill you and everyone you love given the chance. The only difference between them and gators is manatees will still be completely adorable while shredding you.
Now Amos Moses was a Florida Man
And don’t confuse him with no Forrest Gump
He hunted alligators for a livin’
He’d just knock ‘em in teh head with a stump
@Temujin - I wonder about the Gulf. When we were birding in Texas at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center, there were alligators in that brackish water. I fear they are everywhere and no where is safe for our dog.
I just heard on the radio about a guy who swam to the middle of a lake to rescue a bald eagle that was flailing, and when he got it out they took it to a vet who said it appeared to be a gator bite. Lake is known for a seven-footer that lurks there. Not sure if its a Florida Man story a Proud American story or both. His wife filmed it all so footage should surface.
Or rivers or springs, Peachy. Otherwise you're welcome to visit us anytime. Fall is beautiful!
"Florida" Only slightly less dangerous than Australia.
Why is it even a state?
Guns guitars good beer and no taxes. And great weather.
At what point would you think, she's lost and I need to get to shore?
When the gator starts doing the death spin and diving. That means he's about to stash her under something on the bottom and come back to see if the other treat is still available. Nature is cruelly neutral too.
Ha, I literally grew up (16 years) living in Crystal River. Never an incident I can recall. So the Crystal River Chamber of Commerce and Tourism is telling me to dispute your statement :P
Fair enough. It was simply the first nearby river that came to mind but to be fair, my brother and his wife do Kayak there to hang with the manatees.
How hard would you fight an alligator if it had a hold on your wife? At what point would you think, she's lost and I need to get to shore?
If she was pulled in I would instinctively dive in. The gator would have to choose.
Paddle in the water, her hand was on the paddle. That's close enough to grab her arm and pull her in.
I almost hope the husband actually killed her first and she was dead before gator. Bless her soul.
Oooh-kay, so I will not be swimming in Lake Conroe this summer (or ever again). Texas Parks and Wildlife reports that there have been zero confirmed alligator attacks on Conroe, but... that water is murky as hell!
How hard would i fight? Depends on how much insurance money was at stake.
Seriously, how do you "Fight" an alligator? Hit 'em between the eyes? Do a Tarzan death roll? I've read you can clamp down their jaws because their jaw muscles used to OPEN them are weak. All the muscles are built for clamping down.
However, you have the matter of the tail, which is their main weapon and quite deadly - in the water.
If you hit a croc or gate with paddle in the head would it even feel it? They seem well protected? But maybe underneath that scaley exterior is a sensitive soul.
Could be like the book double indemnity. The first thing I thought when there was a married couple in the middle of nowhere and the wife disappears and the story is such that there will never be a body for the police to find is if this is real or funny business. If in a month, he has a new boat and a stripper girlfriend I lean toward funny business.
RCOCEAN II said...
Two Gators see a Canoe with Orthodox Jews.
One gator to the other: "Want to grab some lunch, its kosher"
5/7/25, 7:50 AM
Probably converted to Judaism. Alligators are not kosher so he would probably only be kosher if he converted. If it is a male alligator hopefully the mohel Still has the other hand so he can still work.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
"Florida" Only slightly less dangerous than Australia.
Why is it even a state?
"Guns guitars good beer and no taxes. And great weather."
No. no. no. Alligators and crocodiles. Bears and panthers. Many, many poisonous snakes. Poisonous spiders. Killer bees. Insects the size of chihuahuas. Stupid old people from New York and New Jersey. Canadians.
Wasn't there once a tag for animals a la animals are bastards or something to that effect.
"She and her husband were in about two-and-a-half feet of water when the boat passed over a large alligator, he said.
"The alligator thrashed and tipped the canoe over. Both individuals ended up in the water," Laskowski said. "She ended up on top of the alligator in the water and was bitten. Her husband attempted to intervene but was unsuccessful."
For a few years, my mother would swim laps (between anchored Clorox bottles) in the lake where our house was, in Lake County, FL. Most of the time she had her Dalmatian dog swimming along with her. One day, the dog yipped, and she didn't see him again for the rest of that swim, or thereafter. A few days later, half of the dog floated into shore. Our nearest neighbor, across the lake, a former sheriff, shot and skinned the 12-foot gator who was likely responsible, but that wasn't enough assurance to get my mom back in the water. She bought a stationary bike for her exercise, after that. Florida waterways are FULL of those reptiles!
Hello, Uber Eats? I’d like a canoe of girls delivered.
“Mating season. I wouldn't go out on a canoe or kayak right now”
LGBQA.
"Polk salad Annie
The gators got your granny, chomp, chomp, chomp"
A few years back I was visiting a friend in Florida and we were having lunch at an outdoor cafe. Our waiter had moved from Wisconsin. He said that he loved the weather in Florida but sure did miss being able to swim in a lake.
The friend and I did an air boat tour. Yeah, I want solid steel six feet high between me and anything in that water.
When you're a gator they let you grab them by the paddle.
"I think we covered this a few days ago. I don't go into inland lakes in Florida. That's what you do in Michigan. Or Wisconsin. Or pretty much any other state, but not here in Florida."
Really not worth having lakes, then.
As a kid, I bumped into a large snapping turtle while swimming in a lake at a Scout camp in NJ. I don't know who fled the scene faster - me or the turtle - but I've had a healthy respect for aquatic reptiles ever since.
Side notes: I later worked on the nature staff at that Scout camp, and we'd routinely see snapping turtles in the 16-20" range. Impressive creatures up close. We had a skeletonized carapace in our exhibit that was 21" long, which was considered quite large for the species. A generation earlier, when my dad was a kid and the area I grew up in was much more rural, he would catch snapping turtles nearby. He said they made an excellent soup.
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