News from Florida
Big crowds and lots of motorcycles
- Estimated $600 million coming in.
- Numbers of bikers and money up to pre-pandemic levels.
- Number of evens up.
People are starting to come back and travel.
- Four motorcycles reported stolen, compared to 20 stolen last year.
- Daytona Beach now turning attention to Spring Break.
From Bike Week Daytona
Another astounding video production...our 2nd...
Our little experiment
An early Bike Week video we did ourselves. Learning here, so be kind...
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"All I saw was this massive black thing."
Editor's note - a news breaking update on the infamous gator-bites- man story.
Original story at Gator in bad mood during Bike Week
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Human skull and 30 bones found at Smyrna Beach
Smyrna Beach Police Dept.
- Discovery by city archaeologist.
- Skull identity, race, sex, cause of death...unknown.
- DNA now being analyzed.
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When you try to outrun the law, bad things can happen
real-life video
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Moral of story - don't answer door to reptiles you don't know
A Daytona Beach man was bitten by an aligator at the front door of a human house last week.
Gator apparently under stress from roaring Harley Davidsons
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials said the man answered his front door, an aligator was there, and it made a lunge with snapping jaws. The man was bitten in the thigh.
7-foot, 10-inch gator. Not really considered big, unless you are the one with gator clamped to your thigh.
"The resident opened the front door after hearing a noise, believing it was someone looking for his son. The alligator lunged and he was bitten in the upper thigh," said Daytona Beach police spokesman Carrie McCallister.
The foul mood hypothesis
Alternative narrative...this is the mating season for Florida aligators. With no luck on that front, the guest gator was in poor temperament.
Things happen fast here
Daytona Bike Week
Into the fray of frantic activity at one of the world's biggest biker rallies.