From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:35 PM PT
To:
Cc: rest;
Subject: cO-INCidENCE
Devin,
Pretty
funny how “out
of the blue” this article below appeared in the NYX after I
sent that email to Joe Steinberg of LUK referencing the “Florida alligators” to mention
little of the 4% plunge in the share price of
The
continuing silence of both the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Congress in
addressing their CHOICE of IGNORING when it comes to the all important Money
Supply numbers THE DIAMOND INVENTION
that didn’t simply “evolve out of thin
air” is as clear a signal as any of the need to confront these scoundrels
sooner rather than later before they can embroil once again the world in war in
which there will be extraordinarily few survivors apart from the ants and
flies.
Time to
fly.
Gg
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NEW
YORK TIMES
After
Fatal Alligator Attacks, High Alert and Lowered Eyes 
Published:
May 16, 2006
Todd
Hardwick, a trapper, taped the mouth and eyes of an alligator he
captured Monday in a lake behind homes in
While alligator
attacks are not everyday occurrences in the state — only 17 fatal attacks have
been reported since 1948 — three women have been killed by alligators in the
past week, prompting concern among residents, visitors and state wildlife
officials.
"We live in a wildlife state in and
among many different species," said Willie Puz, a spokesman for the
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. "Be alert to your
surroundings. Any freshwater body in
Mr. Puz attributed the recent attacks to
factors like warm waters and recent droughtlike conditions in the area.
"The weather is heating up, and the
water is heating up," he said. "Alligators need heat to regulate
their body temperature, and when it heats up, they become more active."
The lack of rain, Mr. Puz said, means that
the "lakes and streams and canals are lower than they should be, which
concentrates the alligators' food sources and possibly the alligators."
Mr. Mazzotti agreed with Mr. Puz and said he
was worried about people's reactions to the alligators.
"People either want them killed or want
to get close to them," Mr. Mazzotti said. "They don't exhibit the
in-between behavior, which is respect them, don't get close. It's just good
common sense to exercise extra caution."
When the hotter weather makes alligators more
active, their metabolism speeds up and they get hungrier more quickly, he said.
That is probably less than comforting to the
growing number of people living close to alligator habitats in
Mr. Puz called the recent attacks
"unfortunate and tragic, unrelated coincidences in three different
geographical regions of the state."
On Sunday afternoon, friends of Annemarie
Campbell found her inside the mouth of an alligator during a snorkeling trip
near
The friends said they jumped on the alligator
until it opened its mouth and released Ms. Campbell, 23, of
Also on Sunday, the body of Judy W. Cooper,
43, was found in a canal in
Last week, Yovy Suarez Jiménez, 28, died when
an alligator apparently attacked her as she jogged near a canal in the South
Florida city of
Both of Ms. Jiménez's arms were severed, and
she had bites to her back and right leg. A 10-foot alligator believed to have
attacked her was later found and killed.
Connie Gittles, a 74-year-old retiree who
lives by a lake in Punta Gorda, about 110 miles southeast of Pinellas County
and near Fort Myers, said she was bitten by an alligator last week while
watering plants in her backyard. Ms. Gittles said she had felt a bite above her
ankle and looked down to see an alligator "looking right at me."
"I gave him one good whack on the nose
with the nozzle of the hose," she said, and the alligator disappeared.
Ms. Gittles's wounds were not severe.
Mr. Mazzotti said there was no way to stop
alligator attacks in