Monday, July 20, 2009

Bull gators!

I just have to share. The idiocy truly amazed me.
I was watching Untamed & Uncut on Animal Planet. A young man who was raised on an alligator farm in Arkansas is bitten by an alligator. Shocker right? The narrator introduces us to Jaime. Jaime is one of three brothers in the family business with their father. Dear ol' dad tells us that of his sons Jaime always "got on" the best with the gators. You do not get along with alligators. You avoid being on the menu. Most of the workers at the alligator farm use these long tongs to feed raw chicken to the gators. Not out Jaime. He likes to wow the audience during his shows by hand feeding them. Jaime is already not proving to be a bright bulb. Jaime jumps off the platform, chicken in hand, and runs through the gators feeding them here and there. 20 gators are snapping at his heels and he is laughing like a hyena. He drops a piece of chicken but decides to pick it up. One of the gators had the same idea. Once he saw Jaime's arm though he changed his strategy. Chomp!
In the end out buddy Jaime is fine. Not even a broken bone. He says he learned a very valuable lesson from this. If he drops the chicken he will not pick it up. I think Jaime might have missed the whole point.
The next story is of fresh out of high school boys who take a trip to Spain to run with the bulls. I would first like to point out my disdain for this "sport" and bull fighting. I think it is barbaric. Time for it to go the way of the dinosaurs.
Our two college bound boys are running when one of them falls. Mr. Bull takes this moment to explain how much he hates this abuse. Broken bones, lots of blood, and scars for life but College Bound lives. We all know the bull only lived long enough to be killed in the arena. College Bound learned a lesson not taught in school. Never take the bull by the horns. They are sharp and he is bigger than you!

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