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Alligator winds up on woman's doorstep

msnbc.msn.com — Belinda Donaldson got a call Thursday morning from a neighbor who warned her to stay inside because an 11-foot alligator was lounging on her front stoop. She looked out the window and there it was, just outside her door.

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  • serif69, on 04/29/2009, -0/+18Lounging on her front stoop? Get a ***** job, you lazy sonofabitch alligator!
  • DoctorFaust, on 04/29/2009, -0/+14"Florida alligators are known to roam in springtime when they search for mates, but a Tampa woman was mystified to find one parked on her doorstep."

    Sounds self-explanatory to me.
  • OfNumbers, on 04/29/2009, -0/+14Nothing unusual for Florida :)
  • muleskinner, on 04/29/2009, -2/+13I hate these kinds of stories. Its disturbing to see that our society has become so detached from the natural world that it becomes newsworthy for an animal to show up in its natural ***** habitat. I mean honestly, that's like building your house on the interstate and then being surprised when a ***** car drives through it. :|
  • gatorfree, on 04/29/2009, -1/+11*Takes off sunglasses*

    "Looks like it's see ya later ... alligator"

    YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
  • dbpitt, on 04/29/2009, -5/+14Thank you, smitas for adding such an exciting, innovating story to the pages of digg.com. I predict this will end up on the popular list in no time at all.
    I will not be contributing to the digging of this story, but I wish you and your dugg article luck in these coming days.
  • RealmDown, on 04/29/2009, -0/+8Those landsharks are getting more and more clever.
  • necromancer, on 04/29/2009, -2/+9"Alligators can be found in any freshwater body throughout the state, likely part of the reason for attacks on humans — at least 312 unprovoked ones in Florida since 1948, 22 of them fatal."

    How is taking over their habitat not provoking them? This is happening all over the world (with large cats, bears, and other predators) where people have destroyed the habitat so that we can live/farm there. I'm not going to say development is wrong, but it is not fair to say that the attacks are entirely unprovoked.
  • CoD4, on 04/29/2009, -0/+5The nearest popeye's was closed so how else is he gonna feed his kids?
  • seanstuart, on 04/29/2009, -0/+4"Plumber!"

    "I didn't call a plumber!"

    ....

    "Candygram!"
  • Supertrout, on 04/29/2009, -0/+3Jehovah Witness is trying a new approach.
  • N01SE, on 04/29/2009, -0/+3LOUD NOISES.......I read somewhere that their periods attract alligators, the alligators can smell the menstruation.
    .
  • DangerCollie, on 04/29/2009, -1/+3Props to the neighbor for bothering to say something. In some neighborhoods they wouldn't even know their neighbor's name, let alone do anything.
  • Frozo, on 04/29/2009, -0/+2It's Tampa, Florida. How is this news??

    (11 feet isn't even that relatively large, considering they measure it to the tip of the tail.)
  • alex7575, on 04/29/2009, -1/+3Woah, whoah, woah, they spotted an alligator in Florida?!? GTFO!!!
  • Frozo, on 04/29/2009, -0/+2Easy there, 12 Monkeys... ;) I agree.
  • inactive, on 04/29/2009, -0/+2http://www.cybersalt.org/cleanlaugh/yourturn/yt36. ...

  • ryansmith18, on 04/29/2009, -1/+2It's not newsworthy that an animal showed up in its natural ***** habitat, but it is newsworthy for the majority of the world that will never experience anything like this.

    I don't think anybody was "suprised" like your analogy suggested. They shouldn't be, really. I live in Louisiana, and this is a common enough occurance that it doesn't make the local news anymore, and I imagine Florida is just the same. But most of the world will never know what it's like, and that's why it still makes national headlines.
  • LostOnion, on 04/29/2009, -0/+1I also heard the same thing about bears.
  • Foskey, on 04/29/2009, -1/+2Welcome to Florida!
  • Eldorian, on 04/29/2009, -0/+1in Soviet Russia?
  • rowbot, on 04/29/2009, -0/+1haha
  • inactive, on 04/29/2009, -0/+1That's weird, cos I remember the exact same story from a couple of years ago. There was a picture of the alligator sort of leaning up against the door. I remember because someone had made a shop of it with the speech bubble "Knock knock" "who's there" "It's an alligator, lol"
  • Maxwell1234, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Those captions were terrible.
  • anexanhume, on 04/29/2009, -1/+2Man, those singing telegrammers are sneaky.
  • Khuzud, on 04/29/2009, -1/+1Why is this news? This happens seven times a day on Animal Planet.
  • Trekhawk, on 04/29/2009, -1/+1Possibly related? http://www.straferight.com/photopost/data/724/wall ...
  • Eldorian, on 04/29/2009, -1/+1See you later, alligator
  • supisumed, on 04/29/2009, -0/+0Those ***** Gators...
  • smcnow, on 04/29/2009, -0/+0I love windup alligators. Was this one self-winding. The ones where the tail goes back and forth it moves are the best.
  • gkiltz, on 04/30/2009, -0/+0Sooo, once he wound up, what did he throw?
  • johnwiz, on 04/29/2009, -2/+1i eat alligators for breakfast
  • danielorbital, on 04/29/2009, -3/+2BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  • inactive, on 04/29/2009, -3/+1BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SWINE FLU!?

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