Alligators stalk streets of New Orleans

[twenty4blackbirds]

Alligators stalk streets of New Orleans, 08.09.05 6.20am

Alligators are stalking the flooded waters of New Orleans and rescuers fear that they will eat the bodies of Hurricane Katrina's victims.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/print.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10344522
Copyright © 2005, APN Holdings NZ Ltd

Is this info anywhere else?

[annabanana]

1. I think this is why FEMA wants to supress photos...

I have heard a lot of mention of the alligators, but remember no pics..

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. At least they won't be interested

in eating anyone else.

Gators are lazy and opportunistic. Once a gator has a full belly, they are a relatively safe animal.

[mopaul]

4. the water will eventually kill them

one horror after another for poor cursed new orleans and surrounding areas. but let's not point fingers

[VolcanoJen]

3. Photo... you've been warned.

Via Daily Kos, from Germany's "Stern."



Dear God. :-(

[twenty4blackbirds]

7. Thanks for the reality check

Mercy upon us...

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Looks like a Photoshop job to me

I don't buy that picture at all.

[XanaDUer]

9. Yes, the blood on it's snout looks weird

I hope it is a fake.

[VolcanoJen]

21. Well, it looks to me like he's been shot in the head.

I don't think this is photoshopped at all.

That just looks like one dead gator to me.

[NYC]

12. It doesn't look real to me, either, but such things must be

going on.

I wonder how long it will take the alligators to die from the oil, gas, and other chemicals in the water.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Oh about another million years

They been around forever and except for over hunting, nothing much bothers them.

[NYC]

16. They are stalwart.

But some of them must die from all this pollution.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4692732

The big question. Why were not all parishes included?

[pnorman]

17. I too find it hard to accept, but here's the original Stern article:

http://www.stern.de/politik/panorama/:New-Orleans-Get/545649.html

I don't speak German myself, but that should be no problem here on DU.

pnorman

[Kenroy]

5. yeah

I saw another article on this phenomenon.

I don't mean to be crass, but it doesn't bother me that much. Alligators need to eat, and there's nothing sacred about human meat.

Remember, the alligators' environment has been terribly disrupted, too. The dead are gone - what's left is meat for the critters that remain.

I know that sounds terrible, but I don't mean it to be.

[XanaDUer]

6. I wouldn't want my loved ones eaten by alligators

It's not the alligators' fault, of course, but still.

[Kenroy]

15. It's definitely not what I would wish

for my loved ones either.

But....

If I had a choice between letting my loved ones be eaten by 'gators vs. rotting into skeletons with clingy meat on 'em, I'd go for the gators.

[weiser]

10. Alligators were initially my greatest fear...

...if the leeve broke...! But how wrong I was. It's actually the least of all problems faced in NO.

[mopaul]

11. gators seen entering attic windows

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2005/09/03/local_news/news/news07.txt

After the maintenance work is completed, Ruggles will have two helicopters flying for the federal agencies. Helicopter pilots for LifeNet ambulance service are also helping fly missions over New Orleans. Adams will continue to fly missions to find people on rooftops or trapped by water, then call in the latitude and longitude coordinates to the Coast Guard and Army Black Hawks. The military or Coast Guard will then rescue the stranded people. He will be joined by Ruggles who also has been flying missions.


"It's a horrible situation. We saw several alligators in the neighborhoods and one was swimming into the top of the home where likely people could be there trying to save themselves," Ruggles said. "There are rats, bats, snakes, large fish, and of course the alligators swimming around in the top of the homes and attics."

[OhioChick]

14. Gators seen entering attic windows?

That's awful......imagine being in that attic. :scared:

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. It's been posted here

but mainly from foreign press sources.

[0007]

19. Washington D.C. has 150 poisonous snakes

and the King Cobra is in the White House.

[NYC]

20. Death certificates. How?

I was reading The Free Press, and came across this re the tsunami:

Interpol provided a professional standard of "forensic identifiers" that governments throughout the world agreed upon, following the tsunami.

"There are three identifiers: fingerprints, DNA or dental records. For a death certificate to be issued, you need two of those. Any combination, but two-out-of-three," a British spokesman said in an interview in Phuket shortly after the tsunami hit.

Similar to the many foreign tourists killed by the tsunami, many Katrina victims have extensive paper trails, including residential records, driver's licenses, employment, welfare and other financial documents.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/9/2005/1448

If they don't do autopsies, and do a mass burial/cremation, how will these people be identified? If they attempt to underreport the dead, what will be done about death certificates? In some cases, the relatives will want to claim life insurance.

[Seen the light]

22. Holy crap!

Horrific. :(

[KamaAina]

23. FOOD!

I've had it, at a little touristy place off Jackson Square. Tastes like chicken :-)

[elehhhhna]

24. Dicky & alligators show up at same time? coincidence? i think NOT.

[LSK]

25. hey, dont insult alligators like that

Im sure alligators have higher moral ground than darth vader aka uncle dick.