Posted on 09/16/2007 6:11:13 PM PDT by The Game Hen
Was it an IRS ‘gator? Probably not, since he didn’t also get a leg.
Mind boggling...
I used to work with a lady.. Her son fractured his neck in a diving accident and was a quad.
The did some experimental stuff on him...with computer technology.. Wired his arm...
Took a while to learn to operate it but by shoulder movement alone he could operate his arm and hands.
Modern miracle.
Just so he doesn’t room with the guy with 2 left feet.
Now that is scary...
Who in their right mind would go snorkeling in an alligator infested area? This guy must be trying to win a Darwin Award.
I posted this article on another thread, I had not seen anything else posted about this veterinarian.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882088/posts
Tourist Captures Gator In Local Creek
Posted by Kevmo to Mr. Brightside
On News/Activism 08/16/2007 9:46:38 AM PDT · 28 of 38
This article has a picture of a croc with the man’s arm in its mouth. It was in this month’s Popular Science.
How does one confirm that a croc or alligator has been sedated?
14 Apr 2007
http://neveryetmelted.com/?cat=10
Vet Survives; Conflicting Reports About the Croc
Natural History, The Mainstream Media, Darwin Awards, Nile Crocodile
Veterinarian Chang Po-yu reached through the bars to administer an additional shot of sedative, or to remove some tranquilizer darts from the hide of a Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) in the Shoushan Zoo located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, depending on which account you read, when the insufficiently-sedated saurian turned and bit off Dr. Chang’s arm.
Reports in the Asian papers say that police were summoned, and the offending reptile was permanently sedated by two shots from an officer’s sidearm.
Western press reports claim that zookeepers merely fired two shot which either missed, or bounced harmlessly off old smiley’s neck. The shots proved sufficiently alarming, however, to persuade the grinning beast to drop his prize and beat a retreat.
The BBC even reports the croc is doing well, and is enjoying its 15 minutes of celebrity.
I personally suspect that the Oriental papers are telling the truth, and that crocodile has departed for the big swamp in the sky.
Taipei Times
National Geographic News
Whatever happended to the croc, the poor veterinarian’s arm was recovered, and doctors were able to re-attach it after a 6-7 hour operation.
It would be absolutely amazing if this man is able to have his arm successfully attached. Can you imagine? I mean, the gator swallowed his arm. To be able to show your buddies your arm and say it was retrieved from a gator’s belly is quite a story!
I hope the surgery works for this guy.
No one had spotted a TWELVE foot gator before this attack???
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It is a rather large lake, the sister to adjacent Lake Marion, the two together cover 174,000 acres and this is South Carolina, there is enough jungle like undergrowth and swamp to hide a gator the size of T-Rex where nobody would see it until it is too late. There are probably many, many more in the same lake.
I bet the Filipinos ate the gator - at least his tail ...
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I have eaten Gator tail before, it ain’t bad. No, it doesn’t actually taste like chicken.
Fortunately not, just one arm.
Fortunately not, just one arm.
I grew up in South Florida around the Everglades and we swam with them all the time and never had a problem. They weren't aggressive back then. They did get a dog now and then but didn't bother humans unless provoked. I don't know what has happened to them but you can bet humans are involved. Tourists probably feeding them, etc.
Reports in the Asian papers say that police were summoned, and the offending reptile was permanently sedated by two shots from an officer’s sidearm.
Don' t you just love the English language.
I live on Lake Marion- we are always seeing gators in the 15-20 feet range. A friend of mine is a nurse at the local hospital and she tells me they are always getting gator-related injuries, but they are never reported.
You can be right beside them and not be able to see them because of the water- this is a dark water lake.
"mmmmmMMMMM!! Ain't these tasty??
Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk
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They're known to hold it in their mouths until it begins to decay. Then they eat it.
How horrible...Prayers for this poor man, in the Name of the Lord.
Well here are the graphic pictures from yesterday. I’m not sure how to embed and you should probably heed the warning before viewing:
http://www.charleston.net/photos/galleries/2007/sep/17/alligator_attack/
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