The Florida Man stories are just the best and I don't even know how it got started. I am sure there are plenty or crazy crimes or Darwinian things like this story that exist all over the US and the world, but for one reason or another Florida has been given the spotlight as far as this is concerned.
Don't get the wrong idea, I don't think ill of Florida, I really like it there and go as often as I can. That state just gets the most attention for their rather silly stories.
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Of all the places that I can imagine where it would be a terrible idea to get into the water it would probably be the Everglades or basically any inland water in Florida. There's a reason why this is discouraged after all. There are probably animals that are tougher but one thing is for sure, an alligator is definitely more capable in a fight, especially in the water, than the average person is and it is probably a good idea to heed the warnings of signs that you will see all over the place in that part of the country.
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Some people are just daredevils I guess and they think that these sorts of rules are just for the plebs and doesn't apply to them because they have their meth shield up or whatever it is in Florida that convinces people that really obviously stupid things are a good idea.
While they didn't release his name to the public, a Florida Man decided that he was going to hit it rich by wading into a body of water next to a frisbee golf course and retrieve disks that people had lost there. I play disk golf from time to time, it is a lot of fun and you don't really have to be all that good at it to enjoy it. The disks also cost around $10 each brand new. I can't imagine what used disks are worth but probably not very much.
God only knows what this guy was thinking when he ignored the signs that are all around the property in Largo, Florida. The news piece doesn't indicate if the man was mangled beyond identification or if they didn't want to release his name to spare his family the embarrassment. Either way, we will never know who this brave idiot was. I'm guessing that they actually do know who he is since they knew his age somehow.
One funny thing about the news article, which is really short and you can read HERE if you feel like it is that the Fish and Wildlife service is conducting an investigation to see "“if it (the alligator) was involved in this situation.”
I'm not in CSI or anything but this seems to be a pretty open-and-shut case not worthy of an investigation. Certainly the resources would be better used investigating something slightly less obvious. Oh well, such is how government tends to work, right?
