COOOOOOL

Key comment made on Herald in-house bulletin board, by fellow reporter David Ovalle: I think story would have been better if Curtis had been eaten alive and we had video for online. But I guess it was OKAY ...

Comments

[Not My Usual Alias]

I wonder if he's carrying a Canon.

Camera or weapon or both, actually.

[Punkin Poo]

So, Dave, is this how you haze cub reporters??

[Siouxie]

Needless to say, some consider Fernandez loco. Beba, his wife of 22 years, dislikes it but tolerates it -- as long as he calls immediately after to report all his pieces, 10 fingers and toes, remain intact.

If *I* were Beba, I'd check other appendages first....just sayin'

[Annie Where-but-here]

The second Jose Fernandez slips into the cypress-lined Everglades pond, a resident alligator slices across green glassy water to confront him.
Let me guess what happened to the FIRST Jose Fernandez.

[Hammond Rye]

"They learn warning hisses, mock charges, sizing-you-up bumps and the heightened aggression of mating or mothers protecting nests ."

Ahh- the local bar on Friday night.

[Siouxie]

LOL Annie

[The Gerbil]

GMTA, Annie!!!

[Hammond Rye]

Come on outta there, DeskGerbil!

[Hammond Rye]

*Belated wave @ Siouxie!!!*

[Annie Where-but-here]

Hammie - she may be stuck and need your help.

[pogo]

Ham - You go there too?

[a schmo]

I like my appendages.

[Siouxie]

*was wondering when I was going to get my ***WAVE*** from Hammie*

*tosses up a can of WD-40*

[CJrun]

Sometimes, I have to do this for work. The word fun never entered my mind. It might be slightly different if the gators are what you're looking for and you are keeping your eyes on them, but trying to get something else done while they start forming a circle around you is more than a bit, shall we say, 'wetsuit warming.'

[DeskDiva, slipping out]

Whew!! Thanks, Sioux, Hammie, Annie. Thought I was a goner there for a mo. That costume's REALLY damned hot.

*waves at Hammie*

[DeskDiva]

CJ - I'd think it would make your wetsuit wet from BOTH sides.

[blurk]

''They aren't looking at this thing moving in the water thinking it's a person,'' he said. ``They're thinking it's a dead raccoon or a duck or something.''

How friggin' big do they grow raccoons and ducks down there in Florida??!!

[CTProf]

Siouxie, you seem to be particularly focused on appendages today.

*Hides the machete*

[Betsy]

Dang, Annie...you beat me by however long it took my boss to walk into the office and notice that I didn't have a spreadsheet on my screen.

(I'm thinkin' that if I were the copy editor on that, I mighta changed it to "moment", instead of "second".)

*Snorks* all around!

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

I want this carved on my tombstone:

What are you going to do, just go to to work every day, sit around weekends and be a schmo?

[Siouxie]

CJ, next time we'll need gatorcam photos.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Don't cha just wanna toss a rock in the water behind that guy? Boo!

[Siouxie]

Prof, I have spares *EG™*

[Siouxie]

oh and blurk, not sure about 'coons or ducks but our chickens & roaches are pretty big.

[blurk]

ISIANMTU: I killed a raccoon with a hammer one time. He was tryin' to get into the tack shed where we also kept sweet feed for the horses. I was about 25 feet away and threw the hammer just to scare him and hit him right in the head. Couldn't do that again in a million years. hehehe.

Oh, and to all the PETA types...save it. Yer wastin' yer breath. Or fingers. Or whatever.

[Siouxie]

blurk, that is whack!!

I've done that with roaches. Tossed a shoe across the room and *SPLAT*!

I'm tellin' ya..they're BIG!

[Bethie]

I'm willing to bet he's been denied life insurance on many occasions.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Bethie -yes, blurkie been denied many things many times.

[Grant]

Note the photo caption: "Jose Fernandez is photographing a seven foot gator that is only inch's from his camera lens." I'm assuming English is not the Herald's first language.

[blurk]

ahem...we'll see.

[Siouxie]

cut it out, you too or I'm gonna put you on time out!

[Siouxie]

and I did mean you two!

*puts self in time out*

[blurk]

Yes, mom.

[Annie Where-but-here]

"Mom"?

*shudder*

[ifits_not_1thing_its3]

As a former wrestler, and having some knowledge of the person, I will be polite and say nothing... nothing.