A man in Lakewood Ranch, Florida just a few miles away from where I’m writing this article is being called a hero for diving into an alligator-infested lake to save a drowning bald eagle. Calling it an ‘alligator-infested lake’ feels redundant like “pizza pie” because just about every lake in this region has at least one alligator in it, especially this time of year during alligator mating season.
The nearly 70-year-old man didn’t hesitate to put his safety on the to save the bald eagle from the lake. Doug Hay told local news “he knows eagles can’t swim” which isn’t true, they are just pretty bad swimmers.
But believing that bald eagles couldn’t swim was enough for him to jump into the lake in Lakewood Ranch, which is actually where I went to high school a thousand years ago, and where I once found an alligator inside of the men’s bathroom during school one day… They’re all over! So he was smart to act fast:…