Shouldn't that sign read "
Any survivors will be prosecuted.."
Of course alligators are just itty-bitty little fluffy puppies, when compared to real crocs. When I was 4 or so we lived near Calcutta on a mouth of the Ganges, and they sunbathed in a deep concrete drainage ditch at the bottom of the garden.
Eevul and
seriously big b'tards that ate the dead bodies that floated downriver ...
Would occasionally join the servants and other villagers on their snake hunts. Recall one after my mother saw a krait crawling up my baby brother's pram (she threw one of dad's cleated golf shoes at it). Cobras were seen as good, since they ate other nasty snakes, so locals would encourage them to take up residence in the basements, feed them milk etc... Our neighbour was an Indian doctor and I recall his surgery had glass bottles with examples of all the local poisonous snakes pickled so you could point at the particular one that bit you.
Snakes don't really bother me
too much - crocodiles I seriously don't like though!. So - Florida and similar environs of the southern bit of the USA aren't really on the top of my list for residence. Not unless I'm allowed to keep a family of mongooses (or cobras!
) and also to depth-charge the pool before use...
Andy