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'You are making it hard for us!' Black Americans for Trump member rips president on CNN - Raw Story (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Beach? Alligators don't like saltwater. They like lakes and rivers and such. Maybe he was swimming in a lake. Lakes wouldn't have lifeguards.

Also, anyone in Florida knows you don't swim in lakes. You treat all bodies of water as if they have a gator in them.

Granted, we're talking about an idiot that would swim with alligators. So that part might be true, but a lot of this story is suspect to me.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I think OP is misremembering a story where a drunk Texan jumps in a lake full of gators and promptly gets eaten.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomas-golianopoulos/fuck-that-gator

Not scared of gators as most around here are slightly smaller than me, won't attack. But fuck me, a 10-FOOTER?!

Saw one at the local swamp for the first time! Knew there had to be one in there but never got eyes on it.