Tales of the Wandering Mercenary

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Location: Lakeland, Florida, United States

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

"Shitter's Full"

So who decided it would be a smart idea to only have one toilet on the space station. That was true brilliance!

Friday, May 16, 2008

One for the Darwin Awards

I posted the full story below. These guys were total morans. They should have their badges taken away for being ediots. Lets attack a gator with a towel. Thats a brilliant idea. You know, I actually feel sorry for the gator. It was minding its own business not attacking anyone until these cops try to play Crocodile Hunter and it ends up getting shot in head.

Deputy Bitten By Alligator In Apartment Complex Parking Lot
POSTED: 6:40 am EDT May 16, 2008
UPDATED: 7:50 am EDT May 16, 2008

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A Volusia County deputy got a painful lesson in what it takes to trap alligators. He was bitten while trying to wrestle an eight-foot gator at an apartment complex in Deltona.
The deputy will likely survive after the bite. He was in serious but stable condition at the hospital.
It must have felt like a night out of an Animal Planet television show for the woman who came home to the Brightside apartment complex after a long day of work and found an alligator in the parking lot.
"I pulled up in my car and I saw an alligator there," said Jaasmin Harris who found the gator.
With an eight-foot alligator right next to her car, Harris decided to sit tight for a bit. But after ten minutes of waiting for the gator to move, she called Volusia County deputies, worried the reptile might hurt someone.
"We heard cops laughing or talking or something and we happened to look over and there was a gator over there," said Carlos Martinez, an eyewitness.
The laughing quickly stopped as witnesses say the deputies moved in on the alligator with a broomstick and a towel. During the scuffle, the gator mauled one of the deputies.
"So we went over there and a few cops tried to wrestle it and one got bit on the leg," added Martinez.
"So then they decided they were gonna throw a towel on the thing and try to jump on it, and the dude that tried to jump on it got bit by the alligator," said Harris.
Even as that deputy rolled off the gator's back, witnesses say it kept coming after him. That's when one of the other deputies pulled out a gun and shot it twice in the head.
The bullets didn't actually kill the gator. A trapper came in and shot it with a bang-stick, killing the gator. The trapper said it was one of the most agile gators he'd ever seen.
The wounded deputy was flown to Halifax Medical Center.