re: Tour guides feeding wild gators

sounds like your friend needs to find honest work like the rest of us schmucks.


Feeding gators creates a dangerous situation and will get someone killed sooner or later.

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Oh, I didn't know a whole bunch of people were doing dangerous illegal shite. In that case it's fine.

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Why are you being such a douchebag fricking a-hole? LINK

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Of course, we had to speak to a swamp tour guide to give us a little background about this bizarre feeding ritual. So I called “Captain Jack” from Dr. Wagners Honey Island Swamp Tours in Louisiana. Captain Jack admitted to feeding gators marshmallows (and hot dogs). He says it’s common on tours. “They have been eating marshmallows for years,” he said. Captain Jack wasn’t sure how or why gators developed this appetite. The captain suspects campers accidentally threw marshmallows in the water, which might have started the trend. When asked if he had a scientific background, he amusingly answers: “I’m just a captain on a boat. That’s all I do, sweetie pie.” Of course, feeding alligators is not recommended by scientists. It’s bad for the gators because they grow accustomed to being fed. And it puts people at risk of being bitten. “An alligator can’t tell a hand from a marshmallow,” Delany said. In fact, alligators aren’t what you would call discriminating eaters. “They’ll eat anything given to them,” he said. And this includes good ol’ hipster PBR cans.

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Since you're throwing our shite like "Illegal" why don't you fricking prove it?

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Then the entire "industry" is full of outlaw fricksticks.

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not denying that but the feeding of the gators is not illegal in any way,shape or fashion.

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You were saying?

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read dick

4-200.00 Feeding Alligators Prohibited


a) It shall be unlawful for any person to feed an alligator within 500 feet of a residence.
b) For purposes of this section, a “residence” shall mean a structure used as a dwelling place or abode, and shall also include camps which are inhabited on an occasional basis.
c) Exempt from this section are duly authorized personnel of local, state and federal wildlife agencies, licensed alligator farmers and licensed alligator exhibits.
d) Any violation of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) and not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or a term of imprisonment of up to thirty (30) days in the Parish Jail, or both. Each day that a violation shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
e) Enforcement of this section shall be by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff, duly authorized agents of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries and the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife.
(Ord. C.S. 03-0743, adopted 09/04/2003)

For the guides you all are talking g about. Let's be real here. You were wrong about them.

It's illegal bottom line

How can you read the law for the parish and still say this
These are licensed guides working for a licensed business and doing it more that 500 yards from a dwelling.
Can you not read?

Didn't he get fired???


Like I said, he wasn't very smart was he.

Dude, it's clearly illegal to feed wild gators, there's just a provision within 500 yards of residences. The code you posted is referring to farms and zoos, not wild animals. They may have some kind of tourism license but there is no way they have a license to feed wild gators, they're just taking advantage of the loophole.

Again, I only posted the article saying it was illegal because you freaked out over it. I don't care if it's illegal or not, it teaches gators that humans are a source of food, and it's stupid to defend someone doing that just cause it's the way they decided to make money.

How are you not getting this. It's illegal, and for a damn good reason. You said it wasn't illegal in any way shape or form and you were "dead wrong". I said in my second post in this they could be doing it where it's legal and they're still being irresponsible assholes. You're the one getting all butthurt because your friend got fired. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.