Florida Police Find Alligator With Human Body In Its Mouth

Brevard Times ^ | 6/7/2016

[Gamecock]

LAKELAND, Florida - Lakeland police responded to Lake Hunter following a 911 call from fishermen who reported seeing an alligator with a human body in its mouth on Tuesday morning.

Police say that the alligator swam away but that they were able to recover the body.

According to Lakeland Police spokesperson Sergeant Gary B. Gross, the body appeared to have been in the lake for more than a day and it is unknown if the person was attacked by the alligator. No identification has been made yet on the body which appears to be a male of unknown age. The body was transported to the medical examiner for a cause of death determination.

Meanwhile, a private trapper along with Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission officials remain at Lake Hunter this afternoon to attempt to catch the alligator.

Alligators are opportunistic predators with an indiscriminate appetite that includes fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and even fruit.

[Gamecock]

Drove his Caddy into a swamp?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Alligators are opportunistic predators with an indiscriminate appetite that includes fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and even fruit.

Great homophobic gators...

[hoosiermama]

Good thing There aren’t alligators in the Chicago River or we never would know how many were murdered each week end. OTOH .......

[moovova]

Was it Granny?

"Poke Salad Annie"

[Bobalu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXn1g0xtUMk

[himno hero]

... time to upgrade the list, by adding humans.

[Steely Tom]

Was it Granny?

A mean, rigid, spiteful, straight-razor-totin' woman, Lord Have Mercy.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Cajun Justice.

[Popman]

here’s even a better version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMPZTmiyfco

[PROCON]

Suicide by alligator?

[Caipirabob]

Prayers up for the poor soul. Let’s hope he was dead before the gator made him that way.

[trisham]

One of our nieces and her family live in Lakeland.

[WENDLE]

murphy’s law!! These animals need to be killed by the millions.

[trisham]

Great song!

[mountn man]

This bad boy was spotted about 60 miles away, in Palmetto.

Imagine him in the water hazard.

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

For the life of me, I don’t know why these near-climax predators aren’t treated the way wolves were, once.

My son once lived in Georgetown, SC adjacent to a salt marsh. One day his favorite small dog went missing. His attitude: they’re protected. That sucks.

TC

[a fool in paradise]

Mobsters destroying the evidence?

[Gamecock]

He is a hazard!

[WENDLE]

You just open season on the worthless critter and make shoes out of them.