Alligator hoses up traffic on Interstate near New Orleans

[BOSSHOG]

Alligators along the highways are more common around here then hitchhikers. I wonder why that is.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/alligator_disrupts_traffic_on.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. *sputter*

That is the funniest thing I have heard in a long time.

[BOSSHOG]

3. We saw one last summer

east of NOLA on the interstate. He swooped out of the brush, checked out the traffic then went back from whence he came. I'd say at least five feet long. They also make intersting and very stinky road kill.

[skygazer]

11. Hitchhikers?

:rofl:

[BOSSHOG]

17. I never tire

of the overwhelming sense of humor of my fellow Duers.

[SoxFan]

2. Imagine if it had been at the I-10/210 split

You'd never recover!

[BOSSHOG]

4. Or I-10/610

That would be one wily alligator to get to that intersection.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. 9:30am? Too late for breakfast, too early for lunch

But tire-tenderized gator can make real good eating.

Mmmmmm.

[Parche]

6. Hey Boss

That alligator skin would make great boots...........:rofl: :rofl::rofl:



:hi:
:patriot:

[BOSSHOG]

7. They are a very versatile critter

and they taste like chicken. Really!

[Bake]

18. I've heard of them being grilled!

Alligator steaks. Haven't tried 'em yet, though. But I would!

:hi:

Bake

[BOSSHOG]

19. Hey Bake

I've had them similar to Beef Jerky and have gotten some Gator on a stick in the Quarter. Good tasting especially when all seasoned and peppered up but kinda chewy. You'd have to marinate it for months to soften em up.

We've gotten plenty of rain and nasty lightning the past week. Lightning hit our neighbors house, blew up their computer, wiped out their phone service and blew a hole in their garage. And they are just 40 feet east of us.

[Bake]

21. We had a pretty good storm the other evening too

Winds about as strong as I've seen here since Katrina came through ... no damage though. Stay safe!

Bake

[SacredCow]

8. I used to see them almost daily...

when I worked in St. Rose- just a couple of miles from the Louis Armstrong airport.

[BOSSHOG]

9. They are a fairly common sighting

(Dead or alive) on I-10 between NOLA and Slidell this time of year. There was a big one up I-59 north of Slidell last summer splattered all over the side of the road. Must have tangled with an 18-wheeler.

[SacredCow]

10. One of my friends found a dead one on a fishing trip...

Not very big- maybe about 4' long, total. He took it home and put it in his outdoor chest freezer and drug him out for the LSU vs Florida game. He propped it up in a lawn chair dressed in a kids LSU cheerleader outfit. I passed by his tailgating spot after the game, and the smell was.... :puke:

[BOSSHOG]

20. A very good friend of ours is a big Florida Gator Fan

and her son went to LSU. The smacktalk never ends. Yeah, they can be stinky.

[SacredCow]

22. Of course, the restaurants here serve fried gator out the wazoo when LSU plays the Gators...

and yeah- it really does taste like chicken.

[Shell Beau]

12. Don't you hate when that happens?

;)

I have only seen alligators on one road around here, and that road goes over the river.

It is funny because we go up the river all of the time in a pontoon boat. We get in the water and play around. But at night on the sandbars looking out on the river, all you can see are sets of glowing eyes. Alligators are EVERYWHERE. I don't get in at night. Why it doesn't scare me in the day is beyond me!!!

[BOSSHOG]

13. Honey Island Swamp

is about 20 miles south of us. There are lots of Gators there and one is a 20 footer about two thousand pounds and 80 years old. He is awesome. There are many beautiful homes right on the swamp but you don't see many dogs in backyards.

[Shell Beau]

14. I guess that is how he got to be 80 years old and 2000 lbs!!

[Maddy McCall]

24. I've done the tour numerous times.

I hear that they do a night tour. I really want to do that one day.

Maybe you and Mrs. BOSS can meet me and MMjr for a night swamp tour sometime in the future.

[raccoon]

15. Maybe the gators ate the hitchhikers? nt

[BOSSHOG]

16. I've had scary thoughts about breaking down

along the interstate and never being seen again. Way back in the spring of 92, we got rain every day for a month, nothing heavy but it just continued to accumulate and the waters rose up so that only the two inside lanes of the interstate were passable. Gators were just hanging out as they followed the level of the water right by the lanes.

[jobycom]

23. I drive that way once a month, and I've never seen one on the road.

Hitchhikers, yes, but no gators. I see them at the Louisiana welcome center all the time, but in the lake, not the road.

I wanna see an alligator I wanna see an alligator!! Not a mushed one, though.

[BOSSHOG]

25. Howdy neighbor

If you get the opportunity go on a tour of Honey Island Swamp near Slidell (especially in the summer time when they are most active.) It costs about 20 bucks a head and lasts about an hour. Very educational and quite photogenic. Lots of historic stuff about Jean Paul Lafitte. Reservations highly recommended.

[jobycom]

26. I'm too afraid of the Honey Island Swamp Monster.

Blame my older brothers!

I used to hide on the car's floorboard when we drove past there from Gulfport to New Orleans as a kid.

[skygazer]

27. Those are alligators you're seeing

Dressed up as hitchhikers. They're wily buggers. :yoiks:

[jobycom]

28. Wow!

Cause on one trip I could have sworn I started out with three kids... That explains so much!

[BOSSHOG]

29. So what do the hitchhikers dress up as???

Marie Lavou still skulks the neighborhood.

[skygazer]

30. Alligators

Well, when I say "dress up as" I mean "get eaten by." :hi: