# Suspected Burglar Killed By Alligator

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suspected-burglar-killed-by-alligator/739842>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 8, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suspected-burglar-killed-by-alligator/739842 "2015-12-08T19:42:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![nethken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@nethken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nethken)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suspected-burglar-killed-by-alligator/739842/41 "2015-12-13T00:20:49Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> I find stories like this interesting. Because the dead guy was a suspected burglar, we find it amusing, similar to karma coming back on him. Is it because we think that death is an appropriate punishment for robbing innocent victims? If this story was about resident wading into a pond to retrieve something and being inadvertently attacked and killed by the gator, the tone of the article and reaction by people reading the story would be much different…more empathy.

I find responses like this interesting. Your sympathy seems to go to the thief rather than the poor alligator.

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**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suspected-burglar-killed-by-alligator/739842/42 "2015-12-13T00:38:43Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> I find stories like this interesting. Because the dead guy was a suspected burglar, we find it amusing, similar to karma coming back on him. Is it because we think that death is an appropriate punishment for robbing innocent victims? If this story was about resident wading into a pond to retrieve something and being inadvertently attacked and killed by the gator, the tone of the article and reaction by people reading the story would be much different…more empathy.

Fuck Mr. Burglar. If he’d decided to spend the evening volunteering down at the soup kitchen, or even just stayed home and not been out doing crime, he wouldn’t have lost his life in such a hilarious fashion. He initiated the chain of events that resulted in his own death. Fuck him. You want empathy from me? Find the story about the guy who got eaten by an alligator while he was trying to deliver the serum to the orphanage.

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