Posted on 03/12/2008 9:08:23 PM PDT by george76
For the second time in not much more than a year, Polk County sheriff's deputies have intervened to protect Adrian Apgar from an alligator...
In November 2006, four deputies waded into Lake Parker to rescue Apgar from the clutches of a large alligator that nearly killed him.
Other than that, the incidents, as described by the sheriff's office, sound strikingly familiar.
There they found him naked, walking through the water. Several alligators were nearby.
Apgar also had been found naked in the 2006 incident, when toxicology reports showed he had methamphetamines in his system.
This time, Apgar told deputies he had been bitten by a snake while looking for an alligator, but they found no evidence of that. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Apgar's behavior was delusional.
He was detained under the Baker Act, which allows police to hospitalize a person for 72 hours if his mental condition is considered a threat to himself or others. He was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center.
The first alligator encounter cost Apgar his arm and kept him hospitalized for weeks. The deputies who rescued him found themselves celebrities for a day or two.
Judd said this latest confrontation angered him and his deputies because it put them at risk again unnecessarily.
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More like they saved the ‘gators from a drug overdose.
He’s a threat to himself.
And he’s a threat to the deputies if they have to wade into gator infested water to rescue him.
The alligator that ate his arm was later found naked in a shopping center trying to buy cookies. (or is it just pot that gives you the munchies?)
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