Shocking: Gator Wrestling Is Struggling To Find Idiots, I Mean Wrestlers

It seems that the folks in Florida are having a hard time finding new people to continue their planned acts of stupidity shows. Go figure.

From the AP:

Alligator handlers across South Florida said there is simply less money, glamour and interest in the profession today than in its glory days, when crowds flocked to roadside shows.

"I believe gator wrestlers are definitely a dying breed," said James Peacock, wildlife manager at Native Village in Hollywood. "We're fading out. Just like the cowboys and Indians of yesteryear, or the Japanese samurai."

Now that, folks, is one heck of a hyperbole.

Injuries once were commonplace in the gator wrestling arenas, and sometimes were considered an asset.

"If you do get bit, a lot of times that just means more business," Possman said. "Because they're going to come back to see if it's going to happen again."

Yeah, it's why NASCAR is so popular in the South. Same thing.

Former Seminole Indian tribal chairman and alligator wrestler James Billie lost a finger to an alligator, and still keeps the finger in a jar at his house.

Uh ... okay? Frankly I am amazed they are having a hard time finding people to wrestle. You mean they can't just recruit some geniuses from the Alabama hinterlands? I would figure that's the kind of thing that takes place on a daily basis down there.

Not surprisingly, there is no shortage of videos of this stuff on YouTube.