The Craig Way Show
Did Cam find Florida Man in Florida?
to answer Stevie's question. I did not encounter any Florida man or Florida woman, but the house we were staying at while my mom was, while we were moving around of her apartment, in the backyard, like a lot of Florida neighborhoods we have like a pond or a smaller lake where it's behind 'cause it's Florida and there's a lot of water and it's nice and scenic. And so the first day I was there out in the morning, went out for a cup of coffee, kind of wake up in the lake. I see something just moving across the water. There you go, with the head up. Turns out it's a water moccasin. And then I also saw what I thought was just a big lock. No, it was an alligator, it was an alligator. So a lot of wildlife out in Florida. So I did not encounter or get bit by a water moccasin, which is good in the gators. We're not there the next day, so on that front. So no Florida man CB, but I did see a gator. And no, I did not keep it in our bathtub. I did not do that. - You didn't, you didn't, what was the thing of the story I had last week far? Where the guy, Lassoed One, and he kind of like right off a bridge and he was a Navy veteran. And this was really kind of a weird and unfortunate and complicated story because the guy was a Navy veteran and he claimed the reason why he did this was because the alligator was coming up through the title creek near where he was and was eating up his turtles. Now they weren't his personal, they were wild turtles there. And they will eat turtles. They do like turtles. I told you when I played golf last year, one of the places down near Sunset Beach, I played a golf course called Sea Trail. There were three courses at Sea Trail. I was playing one of the courses. And I shared with you that video, that smaller alligator when he crossed the T box number nine. He was the littler, the smaller dude. But a full grown biggie was down around the 14th green and I heard him thrash and water. I knew exactly what it was and I'd hit my ball down there. I'm like, I'm not going down there. And I got away and I saw what he'd done. He moved to grab a turtle and it was a really big box turtle. And he cracked him up like a wall nut. It was just, and he just, so these alligators, they like turtles. And this Navy veteran apparently got tired of it. And he went and last so then he dropped. - Was it a Wonder Woman action? - Well, it was more like a catching something with a hook because he dropped the lasso down, but he did lasso the gator and did enough damage to him where they had to euthanize it. Yeah, and that was the sad part of it. Well, the guy was arrested and he was taken to jail and all kinds of animal cruelty and that kind of illegal trapping. He called the authorities to say, "Hey, this gator wandered into my enclosure and I've got him here or whatever." Well, they could tell what happened when they got there. And so the guy got arrested. - So that was, you know, when you were typical. - That's insane, yeah. Well, what's insane that they arrested him for animal cruelty and unlawful trapping of wild water. - Aren't we supposed to be saving the turtles? Do we push back in that? We're not saving the turtles. - I think the alligators are more of an endangered species than the turtles are. - Okay, I've never heard anyone say, save the gators. Unless you're a Florida football fan. Let's see, if you were down living in the state of Florida, I bet your mom would tell you that. The gators are a protected species. They're in Florida, we know that. And unfortunately, you hear lots of unfortunate stories where gators will carry off a puppy. - Yeah, or, you know. - So if you were the last of the gator, would you get arrested for that? - Well, yeah, you said the puppy, but it's animal cruelty. - Well, a domesticated animal, I think it'd be a different situation than just a turtle in the wild and not someone's personal pet, you know. I'm not taking the side of the gator. I'm not doing that. I'm merely explaining what the law is. It's kinda like when I do a football game or a baseball game. And let's just say I call it a baseball game and a ruling goes against Texas. I might not be up for that, but I might have a pretty good understanding of why the ruling went the way it did. And so then I would explain that on the air. Now, by the same token, I'm not saying necessarily that the umpire was right and all that, I was explaining, I'd be explaining why the umpire ruled it the way that he did given the way the rule was written. How many times have you done a game? I know I've done it many times in calling a Texas football game or a basketball game or a baseball game when a ruling that would seem to be unfair was within the letter of the way the rule was written. So then what you go to at that point is you say, the problem's the rule. The problem isn't that it was being enforced. The problem is the rule. And so then you go back to, well, is one side gaming the system by using the rule that way. That's an entirely different conversation that it could happen like that, that somebody could be gaming the system, that sort of thing. All right, we'll be back to wrap up today's edition of the program on Sports Radio AM 13 under the zone and the I-Heart Radio app.