Posted on 03/12/2024 11:05:02 AM PDT by george76
A 9-foot-long alligator in Florida tore the hand off a fisherman Sunday afternoon..
The attack happened when the man was fishing in a golf course pond in Leesburg..
While the guy was on the ground, the gator got the guy in the hand, and the two rolled...
Two 911 calls, including one by Priest’s wife, were released by Lake County Fire Rescue,...
In the first call, the caller says, “There is an alligator attacking a man in my backyard,” while during the second call, the dispatcher asks, “Is this regarding a gator attack?”
The caller reportedly responds, “Yes, he took his hand off … Hand is gone!”
Priest ..the alligator bit the man when the fisherman was reeling in a fish.
“The gator was after [the] fish, and what we don’t know is if the guy was trying to unhook the fish,” ...
Priest told the outlet that minutes before a helicopter arrived to airlift the man to an Orlando hospital, the gator released the fish and fisherman and ran back into the water.
“It’s my understanding that [The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission] can’t dispose of a human part,” Priest ... “It has to be sent to a medical facility, and so, in the odd chance that it could have been re-attached, they drove it to Orlando.”
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The FWC encourages the public to move away from gators and provide them with space if encountered
I hate alligators and crocodiles. Wouldn’t bother me if they went extinct but that’s wishful thinking.
I’d be happy having them in the Rio Grande river. Might stop a few wetbacks.
Add S. Tennessee to that list. Locals have been seeing them and Fish & Game has verified they are here with a warning that it’s illegal to hunt or kill them. I’m close to the Tennessee River but I don’t know which waterways they have been found in.
Same as for Pit Bulls. One alligator one 9mm problem solved.
Sit down on him Amos, make it count son.
GMTA
Why penalize the Gator?
How disarming of the alligator.
At least Australia doesn’t have gnats.
He should have watched more episodes of Swamp People. Choot ‘em!
yeah, you’re a few million years to late for that...
It would take more than one 9mm for a gator…
I think I’d rather deal with gnats than with some of the bugs Australia DOES have:
https://www.therichest.com/rich-list/13-bugs-from-australia-that-will-haunt-you/
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