People can't seem to stop being stupid and treating manatees like they're playthings to jump on top of and ride like a horse.

Just a day after two dolts jumped on top of a mother manatee and her calf, comes an WFLA report of a woman leaping on a manatee and trying to ride it like that kid does the giant dog in The Neverending Story.

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When the mammoth snake creature, spawned in a time and land too unfathomable for words, began tightening its hold around Jason Leon's legs earlier this month in some back woods near Miami, he knew he had one chance.

Jason Leon had to kill this motherfucker.

And kill it good.

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Three injured pit bulls, similar to this one, were rescued by Indian River County Police

Three pit bulls and a puppy suspected of being a part of a dog fighting ring have been rescued by Indian River County police.

The dogs were found at a home located at 4565 33rd Avenue in Vero Beach, and had injuries consistent with dog fighting, according to officials.

When police found the dogs, they were tied down with heavy chains, and were in poor health without access to food or water.

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Traffic is pretty bad down here in South Florida to begin with. Usually it's because of an accident, or rush hour, or simply because people want to slow to 15 mph on a 55 mph highway to look at a guy changing his tired on the side of the road.

But Thursday morning's traffic woes were thanks to a big-ass alligator who decided to saunter onto the middle of the road and just chill all, "PFFT. I'M AN ALLIGATOR. COME AND TRY TO MOVE ME OFF THE ROAD."

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If companies are allowed to use seismic airgun testing to search for and study oil and gas deposits in the Atlantic Ocean, 138,500 whales and dolphins will be harmed or killed -- and that's according to the government's own estimate. In addition, thousands of animals could have their hearing impaired or lost, and there will be a whopping 13.5 million "disturbances" to animal behaviors like mating and hunting.

The website for the national Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) explains that the agency is moving to "permit [geological and geophysical] activities in support of oil and gas exploration and development, renewable energy, and marine minerals in the Mid- and South Atlantic Planning Areas," which stretches from Delaware to the area near Melbourne, Florida.

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Either great white sharks love the warm waters of Florida or we're just super delicious, because another one has been spotted swimming around our neck of the woods like it's all good.

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This one was spotted ten miles off the Florida Keys by a group of people who wanted to go swimming with sharks, almost giving this news story a whole different kind of ending.

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Five pit bulls similar to this one attacked and mauled Brandy Bookamer.

A Daytona Beach woman was attacked and mauled by a pack of pit bulls as she shielded her 6-year-old daughter from the animals.

Brandy Bookamer, 27, went for a stroll with her daughter by their home on Holly Lane in Daytona North on Sunday evening when they were suddenly and viciously attacked by five pit pulls.

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Bookamer was airlifted to a hospital in serious condition after suffering multiple lacerations and puncture wounds, according to Flagler County deputies

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A Fort Lauderdale teen was surfing the sweet waves of Melbourne, Florida, when the good times suddenly came to a gnarly end after he was attacked and bitten in the leg by a shark.

Michael Adler, 16, who is an experienced surfer, wiped out on a wave. As he swam to get back onto his board, he felt a sudden surge of pain in his leg. A shark had bitten down on him and ripped through tendon, chomping down all the way to the bone.

Adler would later describe the harrowing ordeal as "Pretty cool."

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Three self-proclaimed Florida Panhandle "rednecks" done caught themselves a 277-pound bull shark using nothing but a baseball bat, their bare hands, and common sense.

The perfectly redneck-named Cody Harlan, Jonathan Cook, and Robert Trutt went fishing for pompano off Okaloosa Island on Thursday morning when they spotted something in the water they say looked like driftwood.

And, as any yokel would, they decided to steer their boat over to it, because driftwood is awesome. However, what was thought of as driftwood was actually a bull shark.

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