- [female interviewer] is there anything that you're scared of? - no, not really. men. [mary laug hs] - [clifford] i remember rolling up. there was, like, a s ign about like a beware of the alligat or. just bizar re. - [mary] it was a media fren zy. itas a peoe fren . - [clifford] it just blew up. social me dia, the way that it works now, it's inst ant. - [female speaker] you like alligat ors? - yeah, i don't like people hurting t hem. let's put it that way. - when rambo gets lonely he'll come up th ere and crawl in bed with the dogs. that's no big de al. - and she fought for rambo. rea lly. i never thought she'd ever lose him. - the world needs flor ida. the world needs cr azy. you know, it's good to have a

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- will! are yo waitg on youfood?hold on,e gotta t the food. [wan lau s]what? u want t hat? u smell ke a pigoday. i'm maryhorn. i' fromakeland,loridaborn a raised. i'a full-boded souer ner. gring up, was a tooy d there sn't man kidso play with, t we alws had so kind of ctter in r ho us matter at. dad word at a tropicalish farm and whener the gators g in the pondi would sh 'em o and i t to plawith ' .so i wld put ' barb doll cl hes anmake thereal fancy.so i wasutting

cthes onbout thr or fo onators, a they got my d in trouble. they fin him lik$5,0 00 i wa't allow to playwith gats for a ile. but er sincehen, ve had gors. - [female interviewer] most people are, are scared of alligato rs. - go od. - [female interviewer] is there anything that you're sred of? - , not rely. me [mary la hs] -husband other than tha no. i meanpeople wl saall kindof stuff but i'veeen withy gars that 's not true. i meanwhen ram gets loly he'll co up therand craw in b with thdogs and me, sohat's noig deal me. it's oy reallybad onold morngs because 's so co thatyeah, i'outta d. he'll eeze youo death'cuz he cold

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ed. what's n to love i thk i was obably o therfor a go few hou. i ke to ta my timewhen i'moing intvi ews anactuallyet tonow the rs on. so, st went t th er and hung out at her house for a wh ile. it's very bizarre to conduct an interview wi somebodwho's holding alligator bu i mean,ou can domestice a lot thi ng but don't, ion't reay thdomesticlligat .that w a new o for m mean, atne pointshe wadoing thto it anit was oning anclosing s mo ut it was very strange, but so, just so human but that le strang humatype stu, you owlike erybody'sot thr weird in gs. and en when u get totep to someby else's orld ke that,t's like you kn, it's le, w ow you knowpeople le, evybody lis differ tly. th is, thiis one way to le, you knowwith aive footalligar in youho

me. [dog bking] - one thing i feel very, very strongly about- if an animal's in the wi ld u need tleave itn a ld becau he belos th er was the before werethe gato i get re gars that n't li in the ld. so quite few yea ago,omebody d ken fivef them out of t w ild.babieshatchlin. pu'em in alo set.no lig in a cl et- dirty, nty smellg, 10allon tank. they weron top oeach o erand had m therefor fourea rs. they ner had the abily to g w.so the gatorswere rlly stunned. so they brought 'em up t here to the alligator farm that i worked at and nobody knew what to do with

t hem. sohe only her choi woulbe to puthem d n. d i said"i'll ve it a y." d that'sow i gotem.their mune sysms had bn afcted by ing in t dark. a spot light ce throh whatev we had m in that wou blisterso wenew we h to fi mething , you ow, cure hat. , what, ck to myld hab s d puttinclothes gatorsnd the ssc reenand anytng else at we uld do tprotect em. so tse gatorwere notng li a typic gator and thatade somef the people tt have rti les,you knowthey're ying at's gon b ite.this igonna dohis. ey neverid it. th were mo like kids thagato rs know peoe think,ut thatthat lads crazy.she

ju, you kn isay over e hill th this uff unti theyaw him d it. and thent was like h, i can believethat gor did t t!" [bds chirpg] [dog barking] - [james] i'm as crazy as mary is, ok ay? [james lau ghs] but we've been friends i don't know how many ye ars. for quite a few of ' em. shloves anals to just putt mildly. she ves animals. she didn want anals ing hurtr anythi e lse. - [fale inteiewer] do you le alligars? yeah, i n't likepeople hurting them. let's puit that way. pele know at an aigator i they're raid of m, so they go t killinalliga rs st to beilling em and cuin' themp, leavin' 'em t th

er bu if peop had ucation,nowledge that's come down here, we would n't have the problems we h ave. [st bluegrs music] - wanted tgive ck to thcommunit and theyere thebest tching ol at anybo could er wa nt they cld book . ey teachhe kids at theyeeded to now, and theyould tou fe, and exri ence stufthat thecouldn'twith oth gat or [sofbluegrasmusic] wesed to gthrough rout in we p sunscre on m and clhes on 'em and en they ew they re woing and ey were ppy. [soft uegrass sic] but eir immu systemshave

beeaffected by bng in thda rk. d over t years, l threst of e gato ey died om the sun.so theit was jt rambo,but wetill did our shows until they decided to take them away from me. - if you're trying to take something away from somebody and, andhat waslike, e whole int of t articleas justto basally, like at was t whole story wa you k w,it's o thing tt shhad the liga tobut th the oth part of it walike, yeah they're nna taket aw ay soent flora fishnd wildlife ying to gure outwhat thectual la a re. u know, at lawsis shereak in and i thk the overall ing was just like safety ncern, y k now? ke, it's, at the...it's aator, li thathing c stroy yoif it was to and think th wereust worried. mean,

li, even le the nicest d can hava bad y anbite somne, and u knowthe dog te is onth ing, buan alligor bite like a whole other bagame, . but, the flip side to that is all of us have, at one point in our lives, lost like a, you know a dog or a cat or something like t hat. and imagine it would' been, y k now, pret similaro th at - i had regularinspecr that ce by for a the yea that had gators. had mov on. the got new insptor. he saithat tor's geing big.and i id, wellyou kn ge.. that'what tor do, u kn ow says, ihink he' too g for here. i id, wellhe's n sensitive. can't goutside,ou k no and says, "ll, do y got perwork r th at ani did. en he cos back a he says"well u're gon have to give mbo aw ,"you kn, "to a tor farm d i said"he

wot never st. u put hiin wi other g ors, ey're gog to eatim becae he is ak er. if you p him in e sun, he's gon roll ov and d ." so iasn't a le brker, but said, "youe not tang my gar. yoll have shoot mto o."i meanit's jus gonnbe that mp le. - myrticle w the fir one at came t on theator t i guesit's t too suri sing th it wentll over e pl acit jusblew up,ou k no cial med, the wathat works n, it's ita nt. - [jes] i wa surprid it wen as fars it didell you uth. but th came from all over to put their two cents in. - at four o'clock in the morning first call i get is, "good day, tampa b ay." says, "ry i'in your

rd.can you ing rambou t?" ary laughs] i'like, what? - [firstemale ne anchor]many ous have ts we love. d we wou do anytng inhe worldo keep them. - was a mia frenz it was people en zy. - econd fele news chor] rambo is 15 year oldalligar that'seen li ng in aome undethe re of a man.- [thi female ws anor] and ey've gotten a quitclose, qte closrelationip the . e woman fightin to kp the gator. - so of 'em re reallrude lled me upid andam es. - ale spear] peopl who ve in fl ida and raisgatorslike m be igno nt. - [trd femalnews ancr] toee her ks th at at's crie wort . - weave comptely oped puic recor laws inlorida. so i mea everythg iside op .it mak it easi as aournal t find sties and uff, t it's hd on people for a variy of fferent reas on bacally, le, crazystuff haens everhe re t in floda, we just havaccess t it. anthe repoers knowthose e the nd storieshat get e hi ts if there a storyo be tol you tta tellt properand yogotta te it ri

t, anactuallyet tonow the rson and not st, youknow, e headline. - yeah, u're notgonna t anythi unle you paifor it and e foughtfor rao. rea y. i never thought she'd ever lose him. oft musi - went thrgh, i ink, twoears of is. peop said awl thin .but, younow, youan't chge everydy's min [mary la hs] d stuff ke thatdoesn'bother e. i was caed awfulhings when i w a bad g wrest r. [my laug ] i was in wrestling from 1966 on up.

so was jusraised iit. anin wrestng, we'r stilold scho, you know. if y do someing to m fami, i'm, i back 'e up. so when i heard what people were saying about rambo, i'd just go on there and i'd correct 'em. i sa, "now, w woulyou fe ?" what i nd peopleo kn is, youno w... with theedia, ido a wle spe h, d it usuly getsthrougpretty well. .i do wa to keepim th nobody'in h ar d they, ey turnearou nd th actuallturned around a whatthey we thinking. oft instmental mic] plea don't te my ram. [male reporter lau ghs] - [male ws ancho gator lives beer than do.- [malspeaker]ave ra o.[audiee applau ng] - [old man] i te, i te for se rambo, oo. - thfwc had many people cling t m,i thinit scareth

em.peopleere goinby the mad, cling in mad. the faceok was a jamme upwith pple sayi, you know, th're wr g. - m gonna y this: mbo's got a beer life ght here than hwould outhere on his. that her sonseriousl and knows i too. - th is his cket. i did l the embroide on thes th's in thpool wit the 41ators rit here. is thinge's had rever. you kn, one dayou migh finde layingn the boom that gar thing,ut that the lifi ch os anyou knowto me, i wouldn trade nyof theemories,cuz all memoes with

mbo are ol. - i was iting toear what flora fish a wildli was goi to do but i was expecting her to, to lose him. 'cuz this is so much jargon that co mes ong withll of that. t being really der, le to rely under and, u know, at you'r doinwrong, h you u can coect it all ose typeof thi s. [male ne anchor]mary h been fi ting florida wildfe worke for nths nowo keep r bo.- but, iuess it'kinda ke the rponsibility the med is to put the essure n when theressureneeds be put on. yeah, pitive changes n happ . - [firstale newsanchorstate coerva ti officis just rersing c rse. - econd ma news anor] ate wildfe officials gaveer permiion keep thrept il t thorn n't allod to owcase rbo in pu ic.- wellrambo gohis licee sohat he c stay at ome. heill be sying th me fo ver. m happy 's home,but he so bo d. 's just ys thereike 's missi out

on meth in he not alled to take picres anyme or be on exhibitso it'gonna bell dierent fora mbo. he c't even to his vorite donald'sike we ud to. i mean, we held up the line for an ho ur them feeng him hburg er [my laug ] i don't ink thathe's bng done ght. he's always been out, around pe ople doing things around peop le. now he can't do it. a lot of people want him out there. heas life.eally. - m glad tt she go to kp him, y know. need more people like that that are willin g to take those kind of risks and prove that it can happen, you kn ow. the wod needs orida. e world eds

cr y. you ow, it'sood have a ock to the stem ery now d th en. [birds chirping] - ea one of e gatorsere named ter theipersonal ies,and heas the mt couragus gar out ofhe bun . no, no oside. [sadnstrumenl music] goodhm? is igood, hm ah. whermy glass? see e tv? rit th er ohi don't nna get d of h if i cakeep him but i thk rambois kinof lonel

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