What kind of a man squirts a monster with water anyway? A real man would have been shooting this thing with his M16, not a firehose!! Unless maybe he DIDN'T WANT IT TO DIE... you know... good for publicity.

Your uncle should be ashamed of himself for taking the call from Obama. I would have hung up on him because it is his misguided lefty agenda that cut things like the Riverine Early Awareness Defence Initiative (READI). Incidents like this are the result, and thousands of Americans living near rivers are at risk. Sorry, but I don't see your uncle as a hero -- more like a mercenary.