A Ranting Forward from Jay

Boy Becomes Gator Bait
In Jay's words:
This is fucking ridiculous. A stupid ass kid swims in a a river named: Dead River which is known to have alligators in it. In fact they even saw alligators earlier in the day and were throwing rocks at them. So the boy get's eaten alive, which IMHO he deserves for fucking with the gators, and for being so stupid to swim there in the first place. What really pisses me off is that they then go in there and kill 8-10 alligators. WHAT THE FUCK? Why go kill of some innocent creatures when all they are doing is what comes natural to them. This is one fucked up world.

To which I would humbly add that this kid is no loss to the gene pool if he was as stupid as the story makes him out to be.
Let's see if we can reconstruct his thought train.

"Stupid alligators, watch, I can hit that one in the head again with this rock."
"Wow, its kind of hot out, and its getting dark, right about when they get hungry and want to feed. I'm sure that alligator we were throwing rocks at has forgotten all about it by now, stupid alligator."
"Think I'll go for a swim before going home, mom said I needed to wash up."
"Hey, is that an alligator coming toward me while I'm swimming, stupid alligator."
"Hey, ow, ow, ow, ow. Glub, glub, glub."

And Jay's right, the rangers who came out and killed seven alligators are fucking whacked. They're "fairly" sure they got the one that killed the boy (who oh so totally deserved his fate for being unconscionably stupid and mean). That's messed up. What if the same logic were applied to the police. They'd shoot a half dozen people just to make they got the "might be" right guy.

No loss as far as I can tell as the kid would have grown up to be an animal beater and a wife beater and probably would have killed himself in a drunk driving accident anyway. Stupid alligator? No, stupid monkey. Or stupid tasty monkey.