Lio by Mark Tatulli for November 24, 2009

What does the alligator get out of this deal?

It takes a lot of balls to try a stunt like that.

(Yes, I did just say that.)

He should get 25c per ball, plus a cracking bonus for the way he’s managing to hold onto that armload of balls! :o)

Sherlock, you said a mouthful.

It’s good to have capable business partners, Lio! –Now we know where Lio gets at least some of his cash!

Lio keeps 1/2 the money, buys raw meat with the other 1/2 and gives it to Smiley. Everyone wins.

^I never thought of his dad as scornful. If anything, I’ve always considered his father pretty supportive of Lio’s eccentricities. Not that every parent isn’t fed up with their kids now and then.

Very clever. It’s amazing how many friends you have Lio.

A producer — Tax him!

nah, the gator gets his bed cleaned. poor thing is probably -er-fed to the teeth with being hit on the head etc with random golf balls. But i’m with Rayannina. Lio loves animals. he’d probably buy him a steak or three for his help.-incedently been there done that minus the gator. i lasted a whole 2 hours and ran into a snapping turtle, called dericke who showed up with scuba gear to get the turtle and balls out. we sold the balls and moved the turtle to a big mangrove grove where he probably still is.

nah, the gator gets his bed cleaned. poor thing is probably -er-fed to the teeth with being hit on the head etc with random golf balls. But i’m with Rayannina. Lio loves animals. he’d probably buy him a steak or three for his help.-incedently been there done that minus the gator. i lasted a whole 2 hours and ran into a snapping turtle, called dericke who showed up with scuba gear to get the turtle and balls out. e sold the balls and moved the turtle to a big pond off a course.

I met that gator on a golf course near Charleston SC: she was surrounded by golf balls, I guess all the other golfers opted for the free drop instead of playing their balls where they were lying.

Awesome, way to go Lio.

Lio and his pal need to get over to the 17th hole at TPC @Sawgrass.

Pays to have friends in low places.

I grew up on a farm that bordered a golf course and used to make a fair bit of pocket money finding and selling the lost balls. We’d always end up with bags of balls that were sliced or dinged and worthless. My favorite thing to do with them was hid in the bushes near one of the greens, wait until a couple of balls rolled onto the green, and then quickly empty the bags all around them then run back into the bushes. The look on the golfer’s faces when they got to the green was hilarious. Bwahahahahahaha

That was you?

lio’s menagerie of pets and friends is endless

Fourteen of those are mine.

shakes fist in the air

Lio you are slick!!

Alligators have broad U-shaped snouts. Made for cracking turtle shells and scoping up golf balls.

Lio’s done it again

Plutonium ain’t cheap.

chairump said, A producer — Tax him! —– Doesnt make much sense to tax a non-producer.