Posted on 05/12/2016 3:42:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Cops: Man jumped into lake to avoid police during psychological episode
Lakeland police said they were called to a home on Long Lake Circle at 8:30 p.m. by a woman who said her 21-year-old son needed psychological help and was having an "episode."
The man ran into a wooded area behind their apartment and his mother said she wanted help getting him taken into custody under the Baker Act, according to police.
The Lakeland Police Department enlisted the help of the Polk County Sheriff's Office helicopter and K-9 to search the area.
At 9:52 p.m., PCSO's helicopter crew said they saw the man lying on the ground in the 5000 block of Long Lake Circle.
According to police, the man said he knew law enforcement was looking for him, so he swam back across the lake, which had a sign posted that read "Caution! Alligators frequent this area!"
The man was missing approximately three-fourths of his left forearm when authorities found him. He was taken to Lakeland Regional Health Center to be treated, according to police.
The man was also placed under the Baker Act and will face no criminal charges.
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Exactly. Mom could have chased her son in the alliagtor-infested lake on her own.
Or in this case, gator aid.
Gator had to be on drugs. Human meat is so bad for wildlife.
Forewarned, but not forearmed.
As the name suggests, the city of Lakeland west of Orlando along I-4 is rife with lakes. Due to environmental protection laws, these now make attractive habitat for alligators. And, having had little in the way of hunting or harassment by humans, even in urban areas, Florida’s gators can suddenly become aggressive against humans.
I lived in Lakeland 1969. An alligator killed a German Shepherd. The general response at the city council was the dog had it coming. Dear “Binkie” wouldn’t have done it on purpose.
And somehow they found this humerus.
No more punishment please.
He was safe.
He was disarmed.
On Thursday, Taylor pointed to an area where he found Kinsinger screaming in pain on the bank of the lake.
"He said, 'My hand hurts. I said, 'Which hand?' And he goes like this, and there's no hand there at all. I went, 'Jessie, dude, you don't have a hand.' "
They will probably euthanize it.
Better than foreskin I suppose.
“...hold my beer...?...wait, hold this beer”
“He lost his arm when an alligator bit it!”
I live in LAKELAND. Lots of Meth around here and sure sounds like a meth head to me.
I sure hope that was photo-shopped!
My Jr High Civics teacher told us in the evenings, she’d swim in the pond behind her house. One of her neighbors informed her that there was a gator in that pond, but not to worry it was quite old and toothless.
She then told us if we ever read a news story about a ‘local teacher gummed to death by alligator’, we’d know it was her...
Jesse’s occupation: HANDYMAN
Seems Jesse has been arrested multiple times.
http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Florida/Hillsborough-County-FL/Jesse-Scott-Kinsinger.87999146.html
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