quote:Florida sheriff's deputies pulled a naked man from the jaws of a nearly four-metre-long alligator that almost completely severed the man's arm, the sheriff's office said.
Four deputies waded through thick mud about six metres into Lake Parker to find Adrian Apgar, 45, around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, the sheriff's office said. They were responding to multiple reports about a man screaming for help.
-------------------- People need to stop appropriating Jesus as their reason for behaving badly. It's so irritating. (Avril) Posts: 8429 | From: New York run by the Swiss (Toronto) | Registered: Mar 2005
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Hopefully they don't kill the gator over this.. I don't even like alligators (I am scared to death of them for some unclear reason) but I hate it when some person does something stupid and gets attacked by an animal, and then they go out and kill the animal.
That said, yea, wierd title..
-------------------- "All people are responsible for the good that they didn't do" Posts: 4774 | From: Virginia | Registered: Feb 2004
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Maybe the gator couldn't find his dealer, and really, really needed a fix.
-------------------- "No Biblical hell could ever be worse than the state of perpetual inconsequence." Beatrice in Dangerous Beauty Posts: 1816 | From: Cayuga County, NY | Registered: Nov 2005
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After hearing the 911 call, it sure seems as if the dispatcher was rather blase about the whole thing. It almost seemed like he needed proof that there really was a man screaming for help in the swamp. Maybe I am just hearing it wrong.
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quote:After hearing the 911 call, it sure seems as if the dispatcher was rather blase about the whole thing. It almost seemed like he needed proof that there really was a man screaming for help in the swamp. Maybe I am just hearing it wrong.
Well my guess is they dispatched help almost immediatly, beyond that they would need to gather more information in order to know what to send (police, fire, ambulance, etc).
Generally they are trained to sound calm, which for some comes off as uncaring when something scary or dangerous is going on (some are also better then others at sounding calm but caring then others).
I'm surprised he didn't tell the man to back off from the area, lest they have more then one victim, however maybe they are used to dealing with gator emergencies, or maybe he is confidant that the man is out of harms way.
quote:Did he start out naked, or did the alligator pull his clothes off?
quote:officials say the man had been smoking crack cocaine and was naked when he walked into a swampy area of Lake Parker in Polk County around 4 AM.
(sigh)
quote:ccording to a Florida Fish and Wildlife spokesperson, the alligator will be destroyed.
As usual, thanks to the idiotic actions of worthless drugged out idiots, a fairly unique animal (in terms of size at the very least) will be destroid..
Can't they put them in a zoo or something? I mean its not like this alligator was acting particularly vicous.. Its not like it was breaking into peoples homes or anything, why destroy it once its already caught?
Imagine if we destroid every human who attacked another human without provocation....
quote:[The police officers] carried Apgar about 40 feet to an ambulance ashore. None of the four was injured in the gator-infested waters.
This is exactly why I am a medic and not a police officer
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