Yeah, this could pretty much only happen in Florida....

[The Tradition]

Florida snipers gave cover for divers who jumped into an alligator-infested pond to search for a missing mother and son, according to reports.

Nieves Matos, 80, and her son, Mario Laza, 56, were traveling along the Florida Turnpike in Miami Friday when they lost control of their vehicle and careened into a retention pond off the highway.

Witnesses dove into the water, and police rescue teams followed behind them, according to WSVN.

But cops realized that the waters were teeming with alligators — and had snipers surround the rescuers to halt any potential attacks.

Footage from the incident shows snipers lying on their stomachs with guns trained on the water as alligators swam around the pond.

Matos was eventually located and pulled from the water and survived the incident.

Her son died at a local hospital.

Florida snipers cover rescue divers in alligator-filled Miami pond

Florida snipers gave cover for divers who jumped into an alligator-infested pond to search for a missing mother and son, according to reports.

nypost.com

 

[noleclone2]

Maybe it’s the medicinal hitting, but that would have made a great Atari 2600 game.

 

[TC Nole OX]

Hey look, for once, an actual practical use of a high powered weapon of war. Police occasionally have an actual need for these weapons. Everyday regular people have no practical need for them, at all, ever.

 

[The Tradition]

Hey look, for once, an actual practical use of a high powered weapon of war. Police occasionally have an actual need for these weapons. Everyday regular people have no practical need for them, at all.

So, what do alligator hunters use? Squirrel guns?

 

[SolarHawk]

Hey look, for once, an actual practical use of a high powered weapon of war. Police occasionally have an actual need for these weapons. Everyday regular people have no practical need for them, at all.

JFC….

 

[TC Nole OX]

So, what do alligator hunters use? Squirrel guns?

They use a rope and a stick to make a noose. It is a prerequisite to be a gator trapper that you not be a small dick pu$$y and that is why you seldom see them toting weapons of war that they have long since realized that they don’t need.