Update on 'gators! Yeee-haa!
We were discussing alligators ( reptiles, not the U of F kind). I claimed rednecks did not shoot at them from their pick-ups because they are an endangered species, so that there were now so many of them that the gators pick off a stray pet now and then and a human every couple of years.
Down here in the deepest, darkest, hottest most pestilential swamp that I have been visiting (we leave tomorrow for saner climes) I learned to following from a major Port City paper.
73 - Number of days in this year's alligator hunting season.
4,406 - number of gator hunting permits that this state doled out this year.
$272 - cost of a gator hunting license to a state resident.
$1,022 - cost of gator hunting permits to out-of state hunters. (The state has a long tradition of soaking out-of state tourists for every dollar they can. It's how gov't down here gets by with no income tax)
2 - number of gators a hunter can bag ( pardon the expression).
18 - minimum length in inches your gator has to be to shoot (pick-up truck optional).
3,436 - number of gators culled in this state during the 2005 harvest (that's the word they use).
There's more of these kinds of statistics, but I think you get the picture.
posted by Clemens @ 8:33 PM
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4 Comments:
Huh! Very interesting! I didn't realize it was all so organized.
Well, up in the territories they sometimes license people to shoot a few polar bears, and those people often hold a lottery to see who gets the very valuable pelt. Or so I've heard.
Plus we Canadians love to club baby seals. Well, only the Newfies, really.
Though I should add that, since the polar bears are drowning and/or eating one another right now thanks to global warming, there's probably no more need for 'culls.'
Polar bears are eating one another?!!
I thought they would turn to eating humans first. Poetic justice and all.
Too bad the baby seals can't grow up into something ferocious. Like a 12 ft gator.
Speaking of cute critters: we're both sorry hear about George and his eyes. Hope you can delay it for as long as possible. I've had one removed and am awaiting the other to 'ripen'. (Sounds like fruit that could spoil or something).
Yeah, there's been reports of polar bears cannibalizing one another in desperation.
Thanks. Yeah, on reflection, I've decided that, while it's sad, George at least has a keen nose and ears to help him get around. A human with cataracts is at more of a disadvantage.
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