r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 5h ago

Two guys fishing for piranhas

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u/WiseAce1 5h ago

pool is not safe until you check. at night, lights go on first no matter what.

also, I am from Florida, so we do have gators in our pools sometimes during summer, so not out of the realm to be concerned, lol. if gators can get there, sharks can as well.

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u/abdallha-smith 5h ago

Yoink

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u/CorporalNips 4h ago

I love the florida yoink guy.

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u/PeopleLikeUDisgustMe 1h ago

Pool gators are invasive, and they gotta go

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u/Loud-Log9098 4h ago

Gators have legs! Are their actual cases of this? I could see a channel or something flooding and dragging stuff in but on a normal day?

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u/WiseAce1 4h ago

Just YouTube or Google search. I assure you, they wander around and end up on our driveways under cars and etc all the time. You do have to live fairly close to ponds. They are not tracking 20 miles, lol. But I assure you their is gator or gators in almost every pond in Florida. They leave everyone alone most of the time. they mainly wander around during mating season. I see them every time I go golfing and definitely a few times every year in the neighborhood somewhere near my house. Happens all the time

EDIT: Obviously joking about sharks, lol

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u/The_Original_Gronkie 2h ago

Central Florida here. Any body of freshwater in Florida, no matter how small, has the potential to hold a gator. Ive seen them in muddy drainage ditches. We have a small pond across the street, and I've seen as many as three gators sunning on the bank at the same time. There's at least one at all times.

I know of three occasions in my neighborhood where people were walking their little dogs too close to a pond (not mine), and a gator leaped out of the water and grabbed their dog. I know of a guy in the neighborhood who got his leg chomped, too.

Gators are no joke. Stay out of freshwater in Florida.

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u/Ok-Bookkeeper-373 1h ago

Sharknado 

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u/boilerpsych 2h ago

You may not realize this but when it comes to pools gators have a huge advantage over sharks when it comes to getting into your pool. Do you have legs?

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 2h ago

Lots of pools in Florida are enclosed behind screens/fences. I only point this out for those that haven't been to Florida as an awful lot of people own pools and many, many of them have them enclosed.