![]() Perhaps Barber’s most iconic commission was the fiberglass figure of a woman who appears to be bathing in the water. Barber has ordered numerous fiberglass giant statues and creations from artist Mark Cline over the years, including four dinosaurs and a Stonehenge replica in the woods along Fish Trap Road leading to Barber Marina in Elberta, Ala. The Lady in the Lake at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Ala.George Barber – former racecar driver, real estate investor, heir to the Barber Dairy fortune and holder of the Guinness World Record for his collection of 1,400 motorcycles – has a love of roadside oddities and, thankfully, shares it with the world. She is in storage at the marina awaiting repairs to piers also damaged by the hurricane but will be back in the water soon, an employee said. ![]() The Lady in the Lake and the Lady in the Bay will both be on permanent display, once the Lady in the Bay is refloated. But instead of putting the second lady in storage, Barber placed her at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Ala. Cline was nearing completion when he had a sudden idea and asked Barber if he wanted a “spare” in case disaster struck again. ![]() Unwilling to let her go, Barber sent the damaged pieces of the sculpture to Cline’s studio in Natural Bridge, Va., for repair. In 2020, the Lady in the Bay was badly damaged by Hurricane Sally. The quirky fiberglass sculpture showing a giant woman’s head and knees emerging from the water was completed by Cline in 2012. George Barber – former racecar driver, real estate investor, heir to the Barber Dairy fortune and holder of the Guinness World Record for his collection of 1,400 motorcycles – has a love of roadside oddities and, thankfully, shares it with the world. Read: Mullets are back: A brief and mostly true history of the party-in-the-back hairstyle Read: C'mon, Southern internet, a cat is as good as a dog any day Read: Does saying y'all make us sound uneducated? Read: Thankful for Channing Tatum and elastic waistbands Read: A Southern girl will always need her daddy Read: It's like Suzanne Sugarbaker said: the man should have to kill the bug As MeeMaw always says, "Better safe than eaten." I don't know if Mark Zuckerberg is on this already but I think a Gator Filter would do well on Facebook, as in: Public, Just My Friends, Just My Friends But Nothing That Could Eat Me Whole. If we don't want them taking over the South, we need to watch those privacy settings. Pretty soon, they're going to be saying "bless your heart" before they eat you, and "thank you" afterward. I mean, these alligators knock, ring doorbells and use crosswalks, people. They apparently know Southern manners and use them in an effort to lull us into a false sense of security.Gators are encroaching more and more on human territory.But here's my theory: Alligators are monitoring us on social media in an attempt to take over the world. So why are gators moving into our territory? Have they developed an affinity for ranch houses and mid-century modern furniture? Do they smell our ubiquitous little purse dogs and come for a bite-sized snack?Ĭould be. It's gotten out of hand, y'all, and it's anyone's guess which species will win since an alligator apparently can block your putt, eat a patrol car and get knifed in the head and still drink your wine – or maybe it had the wine first and that's just a typical Saturday night for gators. (Personally, I think he talked about Fight Club.) Gator spotted swimming with kitchen knife lodged in its head in Texas.This guy in Alabama needs to know the penalty in golf when a gator interferes with your putt.Alligator takes bite out of Louisiana patrol car.Huge alligator takes morning stroll, blocks traffic in North Carolina.Gators are also getting a bit too big for their britches in other states, as these headlines show: Alligator peeks in window of Florida home.Huge alligator broke into Florida home and got into the wine to start the weekend early.Gator caught on camera scaling fence in Florida.Florida man wrestles 9-foot alligator out of swimming pool.Some examples of gator headlines my colleague Amber Sutton and I wrote in 2019: ![]() I happen to know just how many alligators are moving into the 'burbs because we often write about such incidents on It's a Southern Thing (and just so you know, we write about them because y'all read them, so don't judge).
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