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Another Frog Gigging Adventure

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Howdy, While this is not eligible for a D.A., it is an actual account of what happened to me as a young boy. It could have turned out much worse for me than it did, but nevertheless, it IS funny...now, although I failed to see any humor in it at that time. I was a 14 yr. old boy, visiting relatives in Louisiana during the summer of 1954. My older cousins convinced me that there was no summer sport equal to frog gigging. Now, the way this was done (back then, I don't know about modern methods), you strap a headlamp around your forehead, arm yourself with a frog spear (sort of a miniature trident), take off your shoes, and wade out into the swamp at night. When a frog's eyes reflect in the headlight beam, you stab it with the spear, then add it to the rope stringer you have tied to the belt loop on your shorts. All was going well and I was having a great time until I saw the eyes of the grandaddy of all bullfrogs. I jabbed him with my spear but this time, all Hell broke loose! It wasn't a frog, it was a small alligator about 3 ft. long. Need I mention that it was a very unhappy gator when I stabbed it with my little spear? The gator swam right at me, so I turned and tried to run for land, but running in waist-deep water is easier thought about than actually done. In retrospect, I may have been the second person in the history of the world to have walked on water that night! When I got on dry land, the gator came out after me, so I ran faster but the long stringer of frogs tied to my shorts was slowing me down. In my panic, I unzipped my shorts and dropped them while I kept running. I could hear my cousins laughing fit to bust, but I was too scared to care what I looked like then. I didn't stop running until I was standing in the middle of the blacktop road bordering the swamp. There I was, frightened, wet, and buck naked. To add insult to injury, a car came around the curve and their headlights shone right on my problem. You guessed it, the car was full of ladies coming home from the local Baptist church! I was never allowed to forget that night at family reunions.

Submitted on 06/02/2007

Submitted by: Tex Hill
Reference: No media, approx. date June, 1954

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Thanks, Tex, that was one funny story! Of course you couldn't have known it was a gator when you stuck it, so I can't say you did anything stupid, but this was funny and folks just don't tell stories like that much these days! Definitely worth sharing with the readers!

Graham said:
Neutral: Personal Account
This really should be incorporated as an opener for a movie! Thanks, Tex. Fifty years on and the embarrassment still burns hot, eh?

Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Thanks, Tex, that was a great story!

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