Posted on 08/18/2022 12:43:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
An alligator bit a man’s face while he was swimming in a lake near Tampa.
It happened last Thursday at Lake Thonotosassa which is in Hillsborough County.
Fire rescue took the 34-year-old man to the hospital after the alligator bit his face, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission which dispatched a contracted trapper to the lake and is continuing to investigate the incident.
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Florida man—was he naked?
They didn’t say.
I quit swimming in the lakes around here. Seems to be more and more every year. And mating season comes around they get more aggressive.
There was a guy in Wilmington NC swimming in a lake known to have huge alligators. There were signs posted Danger Do Not Swim in here.... Alligators are present. He went swimming around dusk (AKA feeding time) and a 12 Ft gator bit his arm and leg off. I do not feel sorry for him.
Pisses me off they might kill the gator when it was in its own environment, doing what gators do!! Gators live in slow moving water, gators swim and gators bite! Why would you swim your butt into a gator’s house and expect to NOT get yo butt bit? Sheesh...
This applies to pretty much all except the little who was taken at Disney by a gator. That lake lizard never should have been there.
“swimming in a lake near Tampa.”
Might as well be playing on a freeway. At least no dogs were hurt.
Do they call him ‘lefty’ now?
Did the alligator have monkeypox?
Go Gators!
A 12-foot alligator.
They make good boots and luggage.
Named him after a man of the cloth, Called him Amos Moses.
This, right here, is why I don’t swim. And also why I live in the desert. Alligators, pythons, sharks, eurotrash in thongs, humidity. Them things can kill a fella.
So can heat and the absence of water.
That’s all he’s got left cause the alligator bit it haha
“...in its own environment, doing what gators do...”
It is common knowledge that if you go to Florida you can run into gators and snakes about anywhere. It has been determined that gators have been in Florida for around 8 million years and are well represented in the state with around 20 million people and 1.3 million gators.
“If there’s a body of water in Florida of almost any size, there could be an alligator in it, whether artificial or natural, big or small,” says James Perran Ross, associate scientist at UF-IFAS. So the possibility of a confrontation is well proven. And the people invaded their territory and should be careful of being discovered by one. It’s a no win situation.
wy69
The orange and blue variety ?
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