These kinna guys deserve to wear head-to-toe Alligator-skin everything-

Shows like this tend of over-dramatise everything any sometimes it just looks like a load of hillbillies doing stupid shit.

But this guy clearly understands exactly what he's doing. Very impressive stuff!

Except that moment at 0:38 where you know he lifts up the alligator, only to clumsily drop it...

*eia
*FTW

Adding video to channels (Eia, Ftw) - requested by messenger.

I'm surprised that chlorine doesn't seem to bother wildlife.

Stupid shit deserves to lose a hand...and sooner or later, I suspect he will.

Wow. Do you care to enlighten me why this would be deserved?

Yeah Stormsinger, stupid could be applied to some yahoos with brass balls bigger than their brains who started freelancing this service with no experience and some vending-machine business cards from the back of their pick-ups. These cats probably grew up in the swamps and have honed their skills into as few scars and blood transfusions possible.

No more of a concentration of chlorine in municipal tap-water than is in most swimming pools-The city I live in, you can take a sample of tap and test it with a pool test kit and get levels that would be fine in a swimming pool with a stable PH-I've even tested tap-water that had higher concentrations of chlorine than a stable pool.

Won't hurt em terribly but hey: How do WE know the gator dint have burny eyes, eh? He most assuredly wanted out of that enclosure and back into some dirt-water though...

The gene pool needs cleansing...and this guy is pretty clearly from the shallow end. Do I really need to spell out why? I truly don't want Idiocracy to become a documentary.

Why would losing a hand cleanse the current gene pool in any way?

He can clearly hoist that gator one-handedly.

Can Hoist The Gator become a new sexual euphemism?

So intelligent people never take risks or choose riskier lifestyles according to their own balance of self preservation and stimulation?

By that logic a truly smart person would only ever choose to live in a virtual bubble. There's basically no need to go outdoors for many people any more, so why would you risk it if you didn't have to?

What about all the idiots that drive cars!? Don't they know car's are dangerous? (waaaaaaaaaay more dangerous than an Alligator!)


Life is risky, in fact last time I checked it had a 100% mortality rate. Each of us has a (probably genetic) pre disposition towards a particular balance of risk and preservation. The diversity of this mix is VERY important to maintaining a healthy gene pool and social structure.

We need risk takers, they are the ones that forge ahead into new territory, test new & dangerous technologies and thrive performing essential tasks that the rest of us are too chicken shit to do like rescue people from burning buildings (or more trivially removing alligators from pools lol)


I would also like to point out that many a dumbass couple has produced genius children, just as many genius parents have produced dumbass children. Genetics are only half the story & intelligence in particular does not appear rigidly linked to your genetic history.

The nightmare Idiocracy scenario you are so worried about has a lot more to do with education than genealogy

You've really got to admire the patience and tolerance of that alligator.

You mean... be inside an alligator?

No, intelligent people don't take stupidly dangerous risks to show off. There's no equivalent payoff for the pointless risk he took in hoisting that alligator over his head, -or- in teasing a dangerous water-dwelling creature while underwater.

You can try to make up excuses for it all you like, but it was a fucking stupid stunt. And when, sooner or later, the universe collects on one of his stupid stunts, he'll be all "It's so unfair!" And -if- he survives, he doubtless be counting on the rest of us to pay his medical costs, and probably some sort of disability as well. Fuck him.

The narrowness of your definition of intelligence depresses me and is ironically not very intelligent

You talk about improving the gene pool yet you appear to lack a basic understanding of the fundamental importance of genetic diversity.

Even if we accept the premise that risk takers are idiots (which is so demonstrably not true I can barely be bothered to try but feel free to go read up on the Nobel laureates, plenty of "idiots" in there!) they are still essential to a healthy and diverse gene pool.

Mountain climbers, Motor racers, American Football players, Alligator wrestlers etc. etc. This is the same gene pool that brings us Astronauts, Fire-fighters, Soldiers etc.

Some of them may simply be "showing off" but
A. this is what they feel the need to do in order to feel stimulated and alive (they are wired up differently to others, they require higher levels of risk in order to feel the same level of stimulation you you might watching TV)

B. Watching such individuals perform or simply appreciating their existence is a source of untold pleasure for many of the rest of us (you dislike all dangerous sports? They are just as "pointless" by comparison)

But most of all

C. They all die in the end, just like EVERY HUMAN THAT HAS EVER LIVED. Putting all your emphasis in life on just staying alive and un-injured seems a little foolish in the grand scheme of things don't you think? The result is the same whether you spend your life racing powerboats or knitting jumpers in a padded room. You still die thus rendering any choices you made about how to spend your life entirely arbitrary and temporary (unless your religious but even then I'm not aware of anyone believing that risk taking alone sends anyone to hell or otherwise).

"Better to live an hour as a tiger, than a whole lifetime as a worm"
-The cat (red dwarf)


Also do you have a better way of getting an alligator out of a pool for a reasonable cost? The only alternative I can think of would be to tranquillise it but that would A. shift the risk of death and injury to the animal and B. be very hard to administer underwater. Nets and ropes seem like they would be prohibitively expensive and horribly impractical here also.

Hoisting the alligator above his head actually strikes me as potentially one of the safest way to carry the thing away, out of the water with no feet on the ground etc. but then I'm not an expert in dealing with Gators......crucially however neither are you and if i was going to take advice on how to get rid of one I'd be much more inclined to listen to people who have clearly spent their whole lives doing it than some random person who bases advanced genetic theories on a comedy film (for the record a very enjoyable one which was clearly not intended to be realistic).

Stupid freaking alligator sound from every game and movie ever made...