NO SWIMMING ALLIGATORS
I think the sign says you’re not allowed to take your pet alligators out for a swim there.
It’s like “Stop clubbing, baby seals” but not as funny. Or maybe more funny, if you can disregard the loss of life. (Like, you value natural selection more than the average person.)
St. Louis proper certainly does style itself as eastern & sophisticated. But a great unwashed mass of Yokels live in the adjacent counties. The guys who wrote the article probably rounded “far suburb or small town somewhere near St Louis” to plain old “St. Louis.” e.g. I don’t live in Miami itself and I didn’t grow up in Los Angeles itself, but that’s sure what I tell folks who’re not right near here or there.
I’ve saved a couple guys’ lives by tackling them just after they said “Here, hold my beer!” I wasn’t sure what was coming next, but I wanted to stop it for sure.
“For the last time! I told you I had to tie my shoe!”
I think it’s weird that the quoted article repeatedly notes how the victim “mocked” the alligators, as if that somehow exacerbated the situation. Maybe the writer believes that gators don’t eat deferential swimmers.
Let’s not be hasty, here.
This is the exact sign I saw earlier today, and the exact same line I used on a couple of co-workers, who laughed hysterically and confirmed my present status as Funniest Guy in the Office.
It demonstrates that he was aware of the sign and didn’t give a fuck, not that he didn’t see the sign, or didn’t understand it.
If that marina had any balls they would sell “Fuck That Alligator” Tshirts.
The alligator didn’t eat the screaming woman in the lagoon with him, maybe because she was deferential. 
Works on contingency
No money down
You have to admit, as Last Words go, “Fuck that alligator!” are kind of…stupid. Really, really stupid.
“In Texas, alligator fucks you!”
"Honey, I’ll be home a little late tonight, I’m going to drop by the pond and feed the alligators. "
Fuck that hamster!
So that’s why you aren’t a mod ---- you prefer hipboots to jackboots? 
(Well, someone was going to say it sooner or later)
Nope, uh-uh, no way! If you want to keep the dog & cat population down, spay & neuter. If you want to keep the idjit population down, continue to allow them to fuck the alligators. 
He didn’t have time to give a fuck. Perhaps if the alligator had waited a minute, they both could be sharing a cigarette by now.
Beautiful.
I have a picture of a DANGER ALLIGATORS sign, I believe on the Suwanee River. My kids can be seen playing in water up to their knees in the background. It was a carefully staged shot that I wish I could find.