I've now seen several reactions to this video shouting questions like, "Why aren't they all dead?!",
"Why aren't they running for their lives!?"
Well, sit yerself down my friend, I'm going to be brief.
1. Telephoto lens makes that ol' gator look bigger and
closer than it is.
2. Gators rarely attack people unless fed by people, or
defending nests. Average is less than one fatal attack a year in the US.
3. Gators are aquatic ambush predators. They don't run down
large prey on land.
4. Florida has well
over a million gators. Spend time there, you learn not to worry about them.
5. I stepped on a live, submerged gator while working in the
Everglades. It moved away. So did I.
6. Florida, outside Miami Beach, is the deep South. Somebody, possibly everybody, in that
crowd is armed.
7. If they had all run away there would be no video of it.
"Video: Large Gator Spotted in Florida" isn't quite fake news, but it certainly isn't news.
No comments:
Post a Comment