G - men shot an accomplice of Dillinger's in Minnesota; the Nazis were running guns to the Moors; Seminoles were reviving a tribal dance in honor of alligators in Florida; Lou Gehrig had two homers in an exhibition game in Atlanta. (bookbrowse.com)
I've been up close with a lot of alligators in the Everglades, and you do get a sense that they're really not that interested in you, and if you do get too close to them, they'll let you know before they'll do anything violent to you. (scientificamerican.com)
In her 2003 memoir, The Contented Poacher, Elantu B. Veovode wrote of spending an afternoon wrestling with alligators in a Louisiana bayou. (fieryfoodscentral.com)