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I don't even know to even begin to understand how someone can be this stupid.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-killed-alligator-sc-doing-190145305.html
Woman killed by alligator in SC was doing homeowner's nails
[Associated Press]
JEFFREY COLLINS
,Associated Press•May 5, 2020

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The woman attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community along the South Carolina coast was visiting the homeowner to do her nails and was trying to touch the animal when it grabbed her, authorities said.

After briefly getting away from the alligator Friday, the woman stood in waist deep water in the Kiawah Island pond and said “I guess I wont do this again,” but the alligator grabbed her in its jaws again and took her under, according to a supplemental police report released Tuesday.

Cynthia Covert, 58, died of drowning before Charleston County deputies and firefighters were able to shoot and kill the alligator and use poles to get her out of the pond, authorities said.

Covert came to Kiawah Island, a gated community southeast of Charleston, to give the homeowner a manicure Friday, according to the police report.

The woman told deputies Covert typically was professional in her salon, but was relaxed and excited at the home, talking about her boyfriend's visit from Tennessee, and brought a glass of wine with her.

Covert saw the alligator while working on the woman's porch and when Covert finished she started taking pictures of the alligator, the woman told deputies.

The woman and her husband started screaming for Covert to get away from the alligator because they saw it grab a deer a few days earlier, deputies said.

Covert said “I don't look like a deer” and reached to touch the alligator when the animal attacked, according to the report.

The husband and a neighbor grabbed a rope and threw it to Covert when she surfaced and stood in the pond. Covert grabbed the rope and said “I guess I wont do this again,” but was suddenly pulled under by the alligator, the police report said.

Deputies and firefighters looked for Colvert for 10 minutes before her body surfaced. The alligator took her back under once. When the alligator surfaced again, a deputy shot the animal in the head with his 9 mm handgun, the police report said.

Covert's leg was severely damaged, but an autopsy determined she drowned, the Charleston County Coroner's Office said.

Covert was the third person killed by an alligator in South Carolina in the past four years. A 90-year-old woman walked out of a Charleston nursing home in 2016 and was killed, while a 45-year-old woman walking her dog was fatally attacked on Hilton Head Island in August 2018.

Before those attacks, South Carolina had never recorded a person killed by an alligator.

Another COVID19 fatality.

Darwin never loses.

most likely

It never ceases to amaze me as to how ignorant some citizens are concerning wild animals.

She had to pay with her life to learn such a simple lesson.

Darwin Award winner.

The stupidity boggles the mind.

https://www.postandcourier.com/news...c45f728-8eeb-11ea-87c8-1f66d1bd551c.html

Story says she had a glass of wine. This story implies that she might have had some other drugs as well.
Is this what Dave Ramsey calls "Stupid Tax?"

Well gotta give her credit, she was right about that....

Sad. Gators are no joke, and they sure aren't to be petted like puppies.

She does nails for a living. 'Nuff said.

I wonder how big the gator was. I'm surprised you could penetrate its skull with a 9mm. A .300 magnum with heavily constructed 180 grain bullets is sort of considered the minimum for Nile crocodiles in the 12 foot class.

" The Stupid Tax " I like that...

Just another pad death.

A 22 is more than effective but I use a 357 bang stick when gator hunting...

Supposedly 9 foot. And as usual wildlife has to pay for human stupidity.

LOL. Exactly. That's what the death certificate will read.

Man, pretty stupid trying to pet an alligator.

Sad, though.

There are LOTS of gators on Kiawah. You can literally see one just about any place on the island. The island folks do a pretty good job of warning visitors to keep their distance. Some just don't listen.

I saw this big gator just last week on the coast, near as I could estimate a bit over 10 feet, same size class that grabbed that poor dumb lady

On her corpse one leg was "severely injured", I expect that gator did the ol' crocodile roll which would have disarticulated her knee and/or hip joint, no one could hold their breath through that. I hope she lost consciousness pretty quick.




I was looking at it awhile trying to estimate the size, I'm 5'7" and it looked to be at least two of me long.

I'd be interested in what those with experience with big gators would guess, if such is possible from a photo.

Wow!