January 13, 2021
In the
song “Everglades”, the Kingston Trio sings about a man who hides in the
Everglades to escape justice. Law enforcement officials leave him there,
deciding that “If the skeeters don’t get him then the gators will.”
A
real-life instance of this happened in Darwin, Australia, where a fugitive cut
off his monitoring bracelet and ended up in a mangrove swamp, covered in insect
bites and—yep—sitting in a tree branch about 3 feet above some crocodiles.
This man was
given a ride by some kindly boaters, taken to a hospital, and subsequently re-arrested.
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