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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
The Alligator story reminded me of a time in Cancun when I was 9 or 10 years old.
My folks were taking forever to get ready to go out for lunch so my younger brother and I decided to wait out front of the hotel. This hotel is on the strip in Cancun between the lagoon and the Gulf of Mexico. We were standing across the street just above the edge of the lagoon with our backs to the water. Out of nowhere a Mexican pizza delivery guy gets out of his car and grabs a stick from a tree and starts yelling and jabbing an Alligator that was either resting or making its way up the bank towards us. It was about 10 feet away and started hissing and snapping. Apparently the two oblivious Canadian kids were a potential lunch date for a gator we didn't even notice. It was quite the commotion, and a couple guys from the hotel and the pizza guy helped chase it back into the water and shuttled us away.
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I think there is also crocodiles there. If my memory serves me correct, they actually killed a tourist there a few years ago in that very lagoon.