Posted on 09/07/2022 12:13:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A Florida man lost his arm in a grizzly alligator attack, only to spend the next three days wandering the swamp looking for help.
Eric Merda, 43, of Sarasota, was visiting the Lake Manatee Fish Camp in Myakka City on July 17 when he got lost in the woods. When he arrived back at the lake, he opted to swim across it as opposed to walking around.
“Not the smartest decision a Florida boy could make,” Merda admitted during an interview with 10 Tampa Bay that aired Monday.
Not long into his swim, he told reporters, “I look over and there’s a gator on my right-hand side.”
“She got my forearm so I grabbed her like this, she was trying to roll by she snapped her head so my arm with backwards like this completely.”
Merda said the gator dragged him underwater three times before doing the death roll and taking off with his right arm.
After swimming back to shore, Merda started walking and screaming for help.
“Bones poking out, muscles, if I try to move my fingers, you could see it twitching,” Merda said.
He struggled to put the physical pain into words.
After three days of wandering, Merda came upon a fence with a man on the other side.
“I said a gator got me arm, he said, ‘holy smokes man!’” Merda described the meeting.
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They go for the eyes.
half the people in FL are Yankees
“half the people in FL are Yankees”
We were discussing the 50’s.
“Back in the 50’s we swam with the gators. They feared people back then.”
That was the brief period between when people were smart enough not to do that, and when gators found out people were tasty. :)
Not an issue unless such reproduction is used for profit.....relax dude.
my post said 70s
I see that you may have been referring to your post but you replied to my:
“Different animal. We “cleared” any area frequented by small dogs, ducks and children.”
which was in context associated to my previous post describing 50’s activities.
good practice...
Apparently, the alligator got the COVID vaxx.
Either that or the grizzly did.
Still, you have to hand it to him…
Will Sandhills attack?
Damn tough guy. Glad he made it.
Thanks. Good to know, they’re all over the place here. I just give them their space😄
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