Deputies: Naked man on crack when alligator attacked (Florida)

Sun Sentinel ^ | November 30 2006 | Amy L. Edwards

[Caipirabob]

LAKELAND -- Deputy Billy Osborne heard the man's cries for help but couldn't see him through the thick brush and pre-dawn darkness.

" 'I have two broken arms, and an alligator's got me pinned. I can't move. Please help me,' " the Polk County deputy sheriff recalled the man saying at a news conference Wednesday.

As Osborne listened, he followed the pleading voice through more than 20 yards of weeds in Lake Parker's murky, chest-deep water about 4 a.m.

Then he saw them: a naked man slumped over, caught in the jaws of a huge alligator amid thick cattails in bloodied water. He said the man, who had been using drugs and lost a lot of blood, seemed oddly calm.

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Judd said Apgar told deputies he had been smoking crack cocaine at the adjacent park, but it was unclear why he was naked or how he was attacked by the alligator.

[Caipirabob]

The police were absolutely heroic here. No further comment necessary.

[Caipirabob]

Alright...here it goes..."This is your gator. This is your gator on crackhead".

[ladyjane]

As if Florida doesn't have enough problems, why do they want to keep alligators around?

You can't shoot alligators, can you? I mean legally.

[BerniesFriend]

Naked man on crack when alligator attacked (Florida)

Something if it happened during the day..I can see it now..kid asks parent.."Daddy..what is the alligator doing to that man?".."Just weeding out the stupid ones in nature..that is all dear."..

[YouPosting2Me]

Go Gators!

[Redcitizen]

Okay that beats my post titled: Feds collect giant rats in Florida

[GSlob]

I always believed that the only alligators should be on the alligator farms and in the zoos.

[gdani]

Paging Amos Moses

[Oberon]

The guy was naked?

I guess the 'gator wanted some crack, too...

[txroadhawg]

In this part of Texas there is a Alligator season, first 2 weeks of September.

[Horatio Gates]

Alligator drug rip ping

[txroadkill]

A trapper caught a nearly 12-foot, 600-pound alligator Wednesday afternoon that investigators think could have been the one involved in the attack because it was feeding near where Apgar was found, agency spokesman Gary Morse said. The animal was to be destroyed later.

OK, but what will they do to the alligator???

[Sax]

We have a permit lottery for open season - each geographic area issues a site specific number of permits.

Actually there's a little 4-5 footer in the pond about 20' from where my car is parked right now.

[rawcatslyentist]

What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
It's an alleged alligator attack.

Let's get the aclu shipped out to the swamps asap, to prevent infringement of alligator rights.

[ladyjane]

There are alligators in Texas?

You're kidding me, right?

[Hi Heels]

Oh come on now. All of us have been clamped in a gator's jaws high on crack and nakid at SOME point.....

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I knew that crackheads get sexed up like crazy when on a 2-3 day binge, but jeez! A Gator?

[Cyclopean Squid]

I saw one in a small park off of Memorial in Houston. It is a marsh. The gator wasn't big at all--fox-sized maybe.

[Apple Blossom]

Wonder how close Lakeland is to Gainesville?

[marmar]

Good one.......LOL

[stainlessbanner]

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[george76]

Gator Attacks Naked Man On Crack


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[george76]

" A pipe full of crack cocaine: $30.00

A bottle of MD 20/20 earlier: $ 9.00

Wandering stoned and naked into a swamp and having an alligator chomp your ... a$$ off: Priceless "

[george76]

" Never mix crack and gators. "

8-)

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[txroadkill]

They are all over East Texas and they literally walk here from Louisiana! They turn up in lakes, swimming pools, ponds and stock tanks. I have a friend that works at the zoo in Tyler and they had one that was radio tagged in Mississippi and they caught it in Lake Palestine, thats a 400 + mile walk.

[potlatch]

[george76]

Nice.

Would the gator get stoned if he ate the crack head ?

[Doc91678]

The alligator was cleaning up a typical Liberal.

[potlatch]

Might be tastier that way!

[girlangler]

They actually do have a legal alligator hunting season. Apparently they need to kill more, judging by the gator/human conflicts I keep reading about.

[girlangler]

The Sabine River, on the Texas/Louisiana border, is full of them, as is other bodies of water in Texas, including sightings in Sam Rayburn Lake.

[Enterprise]

"Gator got your cracker."

[girlangler]

West Tennessee now has gators migrating from Arkansas

[caver]

I was thinking of that song.

[Ditter]

Attacked by an alligator while innocently naked and smoking crack. I HATE when that happens to me!

[Ditter]

A gator 20 feet from you now? Are you naked and smoking crack? If so, seek shelter.

[wordsofearnest]

and Louisiana and Alabama and Mississippi and Georgia.

[Ditter]

We have alligators on our ranch in Brazoria County Texas, in Oyster Creek and in our bass fishing pond.

[wordsofearnest]

and South Carolina and North Carolina

[Liz]

Good advice. LOL.

[Caipirabob]

LOL! I'm laughing at both the comments and the new keywords...I tried to be compassionate...for all of 2 seconds...really!

[Sax]

Ah, if he's just over 4 feet and a third of that is tail, he ain't so big. There's no doubt he'd scurry away if I tried to get close. I see him a few times a week on the grass trying to warm up in the sun. I'm sure once he gets too big, they'll have him pulled out of there and dropped in some remote lake.

Over in Orlando, Lake Jessup is the dumping ground for Orlando area gators pulled from neighborhoods. That lake is choc full of 'em. There was also a lake on Kennedy Space Center that looked like a dumping ground, one day I counted over 30 in about a 3 acre lake.

[devolve]

[potlatch]

Lol, I forgot about your alligator. Too bad the tail doesn't whack Bubba off the screen!

[devolve]

I upsized the Gator just for this thread post....

Too good to miss!

[TommyDale]

" Never mix crack and gators. "

Especially when naked.

[TommyDale]

I was on a business call at Kennedy Space Center. I came out to my car, and a 7 foot alligator was under it. I patiently waited for him to leave.

[Al Gator]

Butt munchin all the way!!

[Sax]

Then you'd appreicate this picture that I posted from KSC a few months back:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1610477/posts

[TommyDale]

Whoa!! How big was that one? I asked the gate guard as I was leaving, my heart still racing, "How often does that happen?" He laughed and said, "Too often!"