Kids Let Off School Bus To Catch Gator

[LincolnMcGrath]

LACOOCHEE, Fla. -- Middle and high school students were riding home from school when they spotted a 4-foot alligator crossing the road, were allowed off the school bus to catch it and took it home.

None of the 11 students on the bus were injured, and the alligator was fine when it was released into a nearby river by the father of two of the boys.

State wildlife officials and the Pasco County State Attorney's Office are investigating the bus driver.

Sherry Hattaway, 41, has been on paid leave since the Thursday incident. http://www.local10.com/news/2909338/detail.html



Gator rides Florida school bus

LACOOCHEE, Fla. (AP) — Middle and high school students were riding home from school when they spotted a 4-foot alligator crossing the road, were allowed off the school bus to catch it and took it home.
None of the 11 students on the bus were injured, and the alligator was fine when it was released into a nearby river by the father of two of the boys.

State wildlife officials and the Pasco County State Attorney's Office are investigating the bus driver. Sherry Hattaway, 41, has been on paid leave since the Thursday incident. http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-03-10-gator_x.htm

[TlalocW]

1. When children catching gators is outlawed...

Only outlaw children will have gators. This cannot stand.

TlalocW

[LincolnMcGrath]

2. snarf

[LincolnMcGrath]

3. Why did they want to catch the gator?

The yellow doors opened. Out ran four boys who climbed the fence, chased the alligator into a mud hole, poked sticks at it to get it to clamp its jaws down, then used their shirts to try to cover the reptile's head. A fifth student tossed a roll of electrical tape out the window, and the boys on the ground wrapped shut the gator's jaws and hoisted it back over the fence.

After 15 minutes, the boys and their catch all tumbled back into the bus:

Eleven students. One bus driver. One alligator.

Why did they want to catch the gator?

"It was the first thing that came into my head," said 14-year-old Jacob Scroggins.

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/09/Tampabay/Gator_goes_for_ride_o.shtml

[gorrister]

4. poor gator

n/t

[put out]

5. "It was the first thing that came into my head,"

from a 14 y.o. Help me, someone, I have a 14 y.o. too. Sounds like the bus driver may have had a 14 y.o. moment herself.