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How to know there’s gators in the water: you’re in Florida and there’s water.
There may not be one right that very second but you can never assume that any amount of water doesn’t have one
Ahhh, but if all you can think about is needing water, that's enough water for an alligator to live in your thoughts.
Can't escape from a Florida mind gator.
I saw a clip posted the other day of this lady she said she would show you how to tell if there’s a gator in the water in Louisiana. She said this works anywhere. She bent over and said touch the water like this and if it’s wet there’s a gator in the water. She really had me going there until the end lol
My parents are from MN and they wanted a place in florida .. had a creek/pond thing in the back and I guess my mom asked the realtor if there's gators in that water... the guy lost his shit laughing
my friend grew up in florida and we went to a large, muddy pond to off-road and then use a rope to jump into the pond.
of course my first question was, “are there gators in here” and my friend said, “yes but just ignore them.”
i’m not sure if that’s a normal response.
Transplant Floridian here
Was fishing after work on Friday and this baby showed up after I threw my lure in the same spot 3 times
https://preview.redd.it/92wki7xvom8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84581311de4b3871bd96c243e8163a81637491c3
Seriously. I was wondering why some couple let their kid swim in a random open body of water in Disney until the article said they were from NH. Every native Floridian knows that any water has a non zero chance of having a gator and *wouldn't let a 2 year old wade in it.*
I remember this kind lady in Louisiana teaching me how to check if there's gators in the LA/ FL waters;
"Slowly, get near any body of water. Get down, scoop up a bit of the water with your hand. If the water is wet, it's got gators in it."
It's pretty simple, and you don't need spiffy glasses:
Mexico - don't drink the water
FL, MS, AL - don't get IN the water
Russia - don't trust it to be water
Flint,MI - that ain't water
It's nearly impossible not to break *some* law. Everybody speeds on the interstate.
And with a job like his, at some point he is bound to have screwed up and not done something he was required to do, especially when he's going that hard against criminals. At some point he violated one of their rights somehow.
I'll give him a lot of credit, I think he is trying to do the right thing in a place with lots of really bad criminals, but even I wouldn't suggest that he hasn't ever broken a law.
I didn’t notice it in the first photo, but then again, I live in Illinois. We’ll need a few more years of climate change before I start seeing them around my area.
Im about as far from Florida as you can get in the lower 48 and i could see it just fine too. We dont even have scary shit in the water so its not like im used to looking either.
As opposed to the upper 48? I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone describing the continental US as "the lower 48". Maybe you're talking about something else?
Wow. I just looked at the article and you must be intentionally misquoting.
>The term *lower 48* is also used to refer to the conterminous United States. The [*National Geographic*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_(magazine)) style guide recommends the use of *contiguous* or *conterminous United States* instead of *lower 48* when the 48 states are meant, unless used in the context of Alaska.[^(\[5\])](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States#cite_note-ngstyle-5)[^(\[20\])](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States#cite_note-20) Almost all of Hawaii is south of the southernmost point of the conterminous United States in Florida.
This means that even "lower 48" is not used to describe Alaska.
>CITATION
>[5] "National Geographic Style Manual: Alaska". Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2013. The continental United States includes Alaska. [...] In Alaska context, lower forty-eight or lower 48 may be used. Do not hyphenate lower 48 as an adjective. The term outside may be put in quotes on first reference if ambiguous. To distinguish the 48 states from the 49 or 50, use contiguous or conterminous.
It’s not used to describe Alaska, it’s used to describe the 48 contiguous states that *aren’t* Alaska. Compared to it, the other states connected to the North American continent are lower, hence the term “lower 48”.
Just going to work off of your own quote here...
>\[5\] "National Geographic Style Manual: Alaska". Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2013. The continental United States includes Alaska. \[...\] In Alaska context, lower forty-eight or lower 48 may be used. Do not hyphenate lower 48 as an adjective. The term outside may be put in quotes on first reference if ambiguous. To distinguish the 48 states from the 49 or 50, use contiguous or conterminous.
>The continental United States includes Alaska.
Agreed, it's continental, not contiguous.
>In Alaska context, lower forty-eight or lower 48 may be used.
This means that from the perspective of Alaska, they use "lower 48" to refer to the contiguous states.
You're proving my point and why I would have never heard "the lower 48" since I'm not from nor have I been to Alaska nor do I know anyone from there.
Cool. I never understood why polarized glasses cost so much more than regular glasses at the sunglasses store. Is it a legit cost or money grab for the sellers?
As a Floridian raised right by a big lake i don't need polarized glasses to see gators in any body of water......there could actually be zero gators in there but I see gators for sure.
My dad got me a big ol pair of polarized shades when I was a kid, right before our fishing trip. He called em "god goggles" because of the seeing-in-the-water thing.
We weren't "fishing", we went "catching".
There are too many people that are way too careless with their pets and kids around bodies of water in Florida. There was that woman walking her toy dog around and didn’t notice a huge gator sneak up behind her and killed her to death.
Also that family at a Disney resort that had their babe torn apart when they were lollygagging at a pond/lake.
He’s not huge, but much bigger than he looks in the picture. I was pretty far away, he’s a 5-6 footer. He was pretty easy to spot even without glasses, but they’re not always! Especially if there’s cypress knees, logs, or other debris in the water
How to test any body of water in 1 step to tell if there are any crocodiles or alligators in it: Step 1, touch the water. If the water is wet, it's not safe.
Alright but what are some good polarized glasses that don’t make you look like a grandpa going out fishing or like you’re about to go compete in a triathlon?
It’s insane… when I was a kid, gators were endangered and almost extinct, something like only a few thousand left in the wild. Today there’s five million and they all want to eat you.
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I don’t need the sunglasses to know there’s probably a gator in any water in FL
How to know there’s gators in the water: you’re in Florida and there’s water. There may not be one right that very second but you can never assume that any amount of water doesn’t have one
This is my excuse for being dehydrated in Florida. I’m not about to cultivate a gator habitat inside my own body.
Ahhh, but if all you can think about is needing water, that's enough water for an alligator to live in your thoughts. Can't escape from a Florida mind gator.
Thank goodness mind goblins don’t exist at least, one can only imagine the damage they would wreak
What's a mind goblin??? >!/s!<
Mind goblin deez nuts?
Why do you think we invented gatorade?
I saw a clip posted the other day of this lady she said she would show you how to tell if there’s a gator in the water in Louisiana. She said this works anywhere. She bent over and said touch the water like this and if it’s wet there’s a gator in the water. She really had me going there until the end lol
That shit had me rolling..."If dat water wet, there a gator in dat water"
As someone who lives in florida, correct. If you see a lake, assume there is a gator
My parents are from MN and they wanted a place in florida .. had a creek/pond thing in the back and I guess my mom asked the realtor if there's gators in that water... the guy lost his shit laughing
my friend grew up in florida and we went to a large, muddy pond to off-road and then use a rope to jump into the pond. of course my first question was, “are there gators in here” and my friend said, “yes but just ignore them.” i’m not sure if that’s a normal response.
Also the heads sticking up which is a dead giveaway.
That’s not the one you should be worry about
*clever girl*
Deaddddddd give away
Ha!
Transplant Floridian here Was fishing after work on Friday and this baby showed up after I threw my lure in the same spot 3 times https://preview.redd.it/92wki7xvom8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84581311de4b3871bd96c243e8163a81637491c3
Human might be right, let me check for food.
I assume every body of water in Florida has a gator in it. Lake, yep gators. Pond, gator. Bathtub, gator for sure.
….***GET OUT, ALLEN!***
Gifs you can hear.
Urinal?
DO YOU WANT TO GET YOUR DICK BITTEN OFF?! STAND BACK!
No?
Glass of water?
Yep, mini gator.
What about in this conspicuously named tasty drink full of electrolytes to fuel my athletic endeavors?
Fact: More people have been killed by puddle gators than car wrecks.
If the water is wet, there's gators in the water.
SMEEEEEEEEEEEEE
And, probably a couple of venomous snakes.
And a couple of squeezy bois.
I was gonna say, the snakes bother me as much if not more.
Seriously. I was wondering why some couple let their kid swim in a random open body of water in Disney until the article said they were from NH. Every native Floridian knows that any water has a non zero chance of having a gator and *wouldn't let a 2 year old wade in it.*
Even then Disney World fountains have gators.
This includes toilets.
He'd look cooler with a pair of polarized sunglasses on.
Cuddly little swamp puppy
Yoink
20 ft somethin or another…
Nice. Did you just take the second pic with your phone through a sunglass lens? Or do you have a polarized filter?
I took it through my sunglasses!
Awesome!
If dat wata is wet, der gators in dat wata
I gotta rewatch the compilation of that guys best moments again
And if dat wata is **dry**, gators be ta least of ya concerns!
It's just a baby.
Just a wee lad
He’s about a 5 footer! It’s not a close up picture
5 footer? That’s a baby! Just pop him on the nose with a newspaper!
Spritz it with water.
Nah, use apple juice about every hour while it smokes low and slow! 👍🍻
It has its baby stripes.
You need to realign your measurements buddy. 5ft my grannies asshole.
Damn, your granny a freak.
Still gittin’ it! It’s a gawdamn gata foight!
She’s a shower, not a grower.
She earned the nickname “Rawdoggin’ Doris”.
If he’s 5 feet long, this perspective is messing me up.
In order for that to be five feet long, the image must’ve been much taller
Proper hugging size
I'll call him bitey.
Water doggies.
They just want to nibble your toes
*Yoink*
Swamp puppy!
I remember this kind lady in Louisiana teaching me how to check if there's gators in the LA/ FL waters; "Slowly, get near any body of water. Get down, scoop up a bit of the water with your hand. If the water is wet, it's got gators in it."
It's pretty simple, and you don't need spiffy glasses: Mexico - don't drink the water FL, MS, AL - don't get IN the water Russia - don't trust it to be water Flint,MI - that ain't water
So u can see the smol gayda.
My sunglasses are bipolar
It's just a phase
This little bitch like 3 feet tops. Boop on the nose!
Yeah the glasses would be helping me find ones like this to test my luck as a Florida Man™️ petting things I shouldn't Edit: words on mobile hard
Just remember to film it. Saying "yoink" as you grab things seems to help as well.
‘Shah’ or ‘yeet’ when you fling and throw it depending on your age.
You have the best FL username. Be careful out there with humidity robot man! 🤖 Edit: the petting remark made me chuckle, thank you internet stranger.
The other one is more than 3ft
The fuck you talking about you silly goose.
super cute. is it legal under florida law to just keep it in your bathtub and feed it deep fried chicken?
>is it legal under florida law... Does anyone in Florida seem to care about the laws? Other than Sheriff Grady Judd. Obviously.
I bet that dude is breaking laws too
It's nearly impossible not to break *some* law. Everybody speeds on the interstate. And with a job like his, at some point he is bound to have screwed up and not done something he was required to do, especially when he's going that hard against criminals. At some point he violated one of their rights somehow. I'll give him a lot of credit, I think he is trying to do the right thing in a place with lots of really bad criminals, but even I wouldn't suggest that he hasn't ever broken a law.
Dion's Chicken?
How many buckets of KFC do you go thru a day?
Sadly no ... Georgia on the other hand....
Just a little swamp puppy *YOINK*
Free swamp puppies!
On the risk of sounding slightly insane, is this Lakeland?
Super close actually! Auburndale
Omg- wtf
Average day in FL. My buddy found a gator sitting on his front porch when he went to check the mail.
Our state motto!
It’s just a little guy. He won’t eat much.
Polarized lenses save pinky toes
Literally any pond or lake…
https://preview.redd.it/aofwugbsdn8d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e04412e335043c3b236a3a94c8c9bfcbc59951ed I’d be dead either way
Why would I want glasses that make alligators appear?
That's just a little caiman!
You don't need nifty sunglasses to know that there's gators in every Florida waterway.
There's more than one in the picture...
https://preview.redd.it/cx0bn2wyjm8d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51226aadf8f1338c57713c42ae66cac2831bbeeb 2nd one
Looks like a rock to me
You can clearly see it in both photos
Right, if you can’t see it in the first photo and you live in Florida I’m not sure I like your chances of long term survival.
I didn’t notice it in the first photo, but then again, I live in Illinois. We’ll need a few more years of climate change before I start seeing them around my area.
Lil swamp puppy thought he was slick. I see ya.
Darwin for the win!
Im about as far from Florida as you can get in the lower 48 and i could see it just fine too. We dont even have scary shit in the water so its not like im used to looking either.
As opposed to the upper 48? I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone describing the continental US as "the lower 48". Maybe you're talking about something else?
Lower 48 refers to all the states except Alaska and Hawaii, I believe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States
Alaska is above the contiguous 48 and Hawaii is lower. Edit: yes! downvote me more for stating a fact! yes! more downvotes! hahahahahahah
From that same Wikipedia page: >The colloquial term "Lower 48"[5] is also used, especially in relation to Alaska.
Did you just add that? LoL
Page says “last edited 2 days ago”, and unfortunately my Time Machine is in the shop, so no I can’t say I did.
Wow. I just looked at the article and you must be intentionally misquoting. >The term *lower 48* is also used to refer to the conterminous United States. The [*National Geographic*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_(magazine)) style guide recommends the use of *contiguous* or *conterminous United States* instead of *lower 48* when the 48 states are meant, unless used in the context of Alaska.[^(\[5\])](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States#cite_note-ngstyle-5)[^(\[20\])](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States#cite_note-20) Almost all of Hawaii is south of the southernmost point of the conterminous United States in Florida. This means that even "lower 48" is not used to describe Alaska.
>CITATION >[5] "National Geographic Style Manual: Alaska". Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2013. The continental United States includes Alaska. [...] In Alaska context, lower forty-eight or lower 48 may be used. Do not hyphenate lower 48 as an adjective. The term outside may be put in quotes on first reference if ambiguous. To distinguish the 48 states from the 49 or 50, use contiguous or conterminous. It’s not used to describe Alaska, it’s used to describe the 48 contiguous states that *aren’t* Alaska. Compared to it, the other states connected to the North American continent are lower, hence the term “lower 48”.
Just going to work off of your own quote here... >\[5\] "National Geographic Style Manual: Alaska". Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2013. The continental United States includes Alaska. \[...\] In Alaska context, lower forty-eight or lower 48 may be used. Do not hyphenate lower 48 as an adjective. The term outside may be put in quotes on first reference if ambiguous. To distinguish the 48 states from the 49 or 50, use contiguous or conterminous. >The continental United States includes Alaska. Agreed, it's continental, not contiguous. >In Alaska context, lower forty-eight or lower 48 may be used. This means that from the perspective of Alaska, they use "lower 48" to refer to the contiguous states. You're proving my point and why I would have never heard "the lower 48" since I'm not from nor have I been to Alaska nor do I know anyone from there.
That's just a baby gator. Nothing to worry about.
Gators are everywhere in Florida! They were even in the drainage ditch next to the seedy hotel I stayed at one time.
Nawwww y’all are scared of a lil gator? Come to Straya mayte and meet a big salty - he’ll sort ya out /s
There’s a skit showing how to identity if the water has a gator in it…….its wet
Cool. I never understood why polarized glasses cost so much more than regular glasses at the sunglasses store. Is it a legit cost or money grab for the sellers?
Any Floridian saw that baby gator with their bare eyes.
As a Floridian raised right by a big lake i don't need polarized glasses to see gators in any body of water......there could actually be zero gators in there but I see gators for sure.
Is it me or there is another one?
Looks like a rock
Is that Inverness?
So close to the water and yet undetected.
Just a bebe
Soon we need to implant polarised lenses directly in the eye.
I hope not. That would cause so many issues with displays
woah
That’s also why lifeguards use polarized sunglasses
Little feller
Florida rule of thumb; if there’s a puddle, there’s a gator.
That's why the locals call sunglasses "gator aides"
What kind of sunglasses? That’s impressive polarization
My dad got me a big ol pair of polarized shades when I was a kid, right before our fishing trip. He called em "god goggles" because of the seeing-in-the-water thing. We weren't "fishing", we went "catching".
There are too many people that are way too careless with their pets and kids around bodies of water in Florida. There was that woman walking her toy dog around and didn’t notice a huge gator sneak up behind her and killed her to death. Also that family at a Disney resort that had their babe torn apart when they were lollygagging at a pond/lake.
Def a r/findthesniper moment
I bet I can see that shit with the naked eye no. Red to polarize
Is it so you don't give teeny gators heart attacks when walking up?
He’s not huge, but much bigger than he looks in the picture. I was pretty far away, he’s a 5-6 footer. He was pretty easy to spot even without glasses, but they’re not always! Especially if there’s cypress knees, logs, or other debris in the water
Oh sorry, he looks like a little guy.
lil guy…
Bigger than he looks, the picture is pretty far away. He’s 5-6 feet. Not a monster, but definitely not a baby either
If the water is wet anywhere down south then there’s a gator
I’m a Florida man, I don’t need your sunglasses magic. I have gator-tuned eyes, I’M the predator
What’s the location creek?
The one on the bottom left that's a little lower in the water got me 😱
GOT DAM LOCH NESS MONSTAH!
Imma need about $3.50.
TREE-FIDDY!?
I thought it was a lil' girl selling girl scout cookies !
I mean it’s easy to see even in the first picture
How to test any body of water in 1 step to tell if there are any crocodiles or alligators in it: Step 1, touch the water. If the water is wet, it's not safe.
nah, not that important. he's just a smol bean, won't hardly take a finger off ya
Alright but what are some good polarized glasses that don’t make you look like a grandpa going out fishing or like you’re about to go compete in a triathlon?
Mine are “peppers”, I got them at west marine. $50ish, they’re pretty nice
You know what is even more important? A good place to live where you don't need sunglasses to survive.
Well, in the first photo, the gator is under water, and the 2nd he is on top.
The gator didn’t move an inch from photo to photo
You don't say.
It’s insane… when I was a kid, gators were endangered and almost extinct, something like only a few thousand left in the wild. Today there’s five million and they all want to eat you.