{"id":43832,"date":"2020-05-07T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=43832"},"modified":"2020-05-07T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:08:19","slug":"animal-news-update-that-woman-who-was-killed-by-an-alligator-in-sc-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=43832","title":{"rendered":"Animal news update! That woman who was killed by an alligator in SC? Well…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the story from Associated Press.<\/a><\/p>\n

Aside from the body of water where the alligator lurked, the setting for this incredibly stupid episode is…a gated community in South Carolina, on Kiawah* Island. We urbanites just love the ethos of fancy gated communities, don’t we?<\/p>\n

Lesson here: stop kvetching about the deficit in your mani-pedis during a pandemic. I mean, get out the nail clippers and emery boards and fucking do it yourself.<\/p>\n

*Kiawah Island is the location for a turbulent event in DuBose Heyward and the Gershwin brothers’ opera, Porgy and Bess. <\/em>Now it seems to be a ritzy resort where happy white folk, their adorable children and their golf clubs are tended to by servants of color.**<\/a><\/p>\n

**If you watch the video, you’ll actually see an alligator. Why a resort would advertise an alligator as one of its attractions, I do not know. There is no information about whether this was the killer alligator or another alligator. (I say “was” because the alligator who killed got himself killed, by a sheriff’s bullet. Therefore, it is a demised, past-tense alligator.)<\/p>\n

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Here’s the story from Associated Press. Aside from the body of water where the alligator lurked, the setting for this incredibly stupid episode is…a gated community in South Carolina, on Kiawah* Island. We urbanites just love the ethos of fancy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4775,5369],"tags":[5567,5569,5568],"class_list":["post-43832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-news","category-covid-19","tag-alligator","tag-gated-communities","tag-manicures"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t