Source: Cleveland.com
When you keep destroying wetlands to build new shopping malls and McMansions in Florida, what do people expect to happen?
Nature has to go somewhere.
Miami -- Trapper Todd Hardwick typically gets four nuisance alligator calls each day, but he is getting 15 now, after an unprecedented burst of three deadly gator attacks on people in a week.
"People are shook up," Hardwick said just before capturing a 9-foot, 4-inch alligator Monday in a residential lake north of Miami. "It's like the citizens of Florida have declared war on alligators. People are really going crazy."
Before the most recent attacks, only 17 deaths had been recorded in Florida since 1948, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Wildlife officials said there is no pattern or common element to the attacks.
One victim was a jogger whose body was found in a canal in Broward County, on Florida's Atlantic Coast; one was snorkeling in a recreation area near Lake George, in the central part of the state; another was found in a canal about 20 miles north of St. Petersburg, on the state's Gulf Coast.
"These are unfortunate, unrelated coincidences," commission spokesman Willie Puz said. "We still caution everyone: Pay attention to your surroundings. Pay attention to what's in the water. Alligators are predators and wild animals that should be treated with respect."
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