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2004-09-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Socially Aware Poet Eaten By Alligator
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Posted by AlDogSherpa 2004-09-28 13:26|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 They are after us. It's revenge...

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-28 2:46:55 PM||   2004-09-28 2:46:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "She was extremely intelligent and loving and socially conscious"

Uh, swimming at night in alligator-infested swamps after somebody explicitly warned you not to after actual sightings does not sound intelligent. But it was very socially-conscious of her to give the alligator a tasty last meal - before her idiotic decision led to the animal being hunted down and killed. Score one for the tree-huggers!
Posted by BH 2004-09-28 3:07:25 PM||   2004-09-28 3:07:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Note : Subscription link - Here is the story

Student dies in gator attack
Roswell (GA) resident, 20, took swim while visiting family in Florida

By HENRY FARBER, MIKE MORRIS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 09/27/04

A student peace activist who expressed her daring through avant-garde poetry drowned in a southwest Florida lake Sunday after an alligator bit off her arm.

Michelle Reeves, 20, of Roswell apparently had gone for a pre-dawn swim at her grandparents' retirement home in Fort Myers. Michelle Reeves lived in Roswell. At school she was known as a poet and free spirit.

The 7-foot, 1-inch alligator was trapped and killed later in the day. It had bitten through Reeves' elbow. Reeves, a junior at Georgia State University, had been warned by her grandparents not to go in the water because of alligator sightings, said Illeana LiMarzi of the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

Reeves was last seen about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Her father, James Reeves, discovered her body face down after noticing her nightgown on the ground near the waterfront about 10 a.m.

Georgia State associate professor Paul J. Voss, who taught Reeves Shakespeare, considered her a free spirit. "In the best sense, she was the kind of person who would go swimming in the middle of the night," he said.

Reeves brought a smile, a sharp intellect and "sometimes quirky" questions to class, Voss said. "She was the kind of student all professors wish they could have."

She lived with her parents in the north Fulton suburbs, but communed with intown peace activists and the Atlanta Poets Group, where she was the youngest member.

She had protested the Iraq war during the Republican National Convention in New York and had demonstrated in Washington, said fellow poet Zac Denton.

Protested the Republican convention? Geez now they will balme Carl Rove...

"She was extremely intelligent and loving and socially conscious," Denton said. "I could see that she was developing her own poetic style and voice."

Reeves was the second person killed by an alligator in Lee County this year, according to The News-Press of Fort Myers.

At least a dozen alligators were removed from Lee County waters near Sanibel after the other fatal attack in July.
Posted by BigEd 2004-09-28 3:09:44 PM||   2004-09-28 3:09:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 BE - Speaking of the Evil Genius Rove, over at INDC, Bill received this memo. Tread lightly, bro, lol!

Posted by .com 2004-09-28 3:15:23 PM||   2004-09-28 3:15:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I'd rather get into a cage with poisonous snakes than swim with alligators. But they are apparently not nearly as dangerous as the African crocodile. You don't have to go to them. They come to you. They also never leave you uneaten. A few years ago in South Africa a guide was lecturing a tour group on the dangers of crocodiles with his back to the river. He was grabbed, dragged under and never seen again.

Poor girl. Grim way to die.
Posted by Bryan 2004-09-28 3:27:48 PM||   2004-09-28 3:27:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 
who expressed her daring through avant-garde poetry
You have GOT to be kidding me.

Poetry is "daring"?

No, dorkface, skydiving is daring. Mountain-climbing is daring. Playing in traffic is daring. Poetry is NOT daring, crappy"avant-garde" or otherwise.

And swimming with alligators was not daring, it was STUPID.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-09-28 3:30:47 PM||   2004-09-28 3:30:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Darwin Award Candidate of the Year.

Karma works, folks, I think I am convinced.
Posted by Memesis 2004-09-28 3:33:36 PM||   2004-09-28 3:33:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Gators . . . why do they eat us?
Posted by Mike  2004-09-28 3:45:25 PM||   2004-09-28 3:45:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I warned you people. Bring back DDT and Aligator Shuuuues. Gators hate us because we don't drive tractors to work. :)
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-28 3:52:54 PM||   2004-09-28 3:52:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 BS: And swimming with alligators was not daring, it was STUPID.

I'll have to disagree with you there. Some things are daring *and* stupid. Swimming with alligators is arguably more dangerous than skydiving.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-09-28 3:58:13 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2004-09-28 3:58:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The slope of the graph of her enviromental awareness exceded the slope of the graph of her social awareness in the very end.
Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-28 5:51:12 PM||   2004-09-28 5:51:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Shoulda gone swimming with UFlorida Gators, they haven't touched anybody last couple years :-)


howya doing, Ship, ya Socialist!
Posted by Frank G  2004-09-28 5:58:37 PM||   2004-09-28 5:58:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 "In the best sense, she was the kind of person who would go swimming in the middle of the night," he said.

This, I think, counts as the most back-handed compliment I've ever read. I doubt it was intended that way, but there you are.

"She was dumb enough to go swimming in alligator-infested waters in the middle of the night. That's just the way she was. Dumb as a post. Yep, like they said in her favorite Monty Python skit, 'Today's poet is tomorrow's alligator shit.'"
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-09-28 6:16:54 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-09-28 6:16:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 A student peace activist who expressed her daring through avant-garde poetry drowned in a southwest Florida lake Sunday after an alligator bit off her arm.

This is as far as I needed to read. It seems that typically, "peace activist" and "idiot" are totally interchangeable.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-28 6:20:48 PM||   2004-09-28 6:20:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Well just shows how out of touch most peace creeps are. Swiming in water were gators are in the dark was terminal stupidity.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-09-28 7:34:25 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-09-28 7:34:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Thanks, kid. Appreciate the help.
Posted by Gene Pool 2004-09-28 7:44:02 PM||   2004-09-28 7:44:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 LOL, 'Gene.' :-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-09-28 9:41:38 PM||   2004-09-28 9:41:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Are her grandparents relieved for the sake of posterity? c'mon on, you warn your grandchild, she proceeds to ignore you and die. Amazing.

I like to tell my friends and family that the fact we are alive now is evidence that none of our ancestors over the last several billions of years were incompetent enough to die before reproduction. Beat that!
Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-09-28 11:16:44 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]  2004-09-28 11:16:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I dunno, is there some way we can encourage moonbats to mimic similar daring behavior?

Like going off the cliff en masse or sumtin'...
Sorry, that'sd all I can come up with, I don't have the proper moonbat imagination.
Posted by Conanista 2004-09-29 12:09:15 AM||   2004-09-29 12:09:15 AM|| Front Page Top

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