Posted on 05/10/2024 12:47:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
The officer had to undergo surgery and is on the road to recovery.
A Texas police officer suffered a bite from an alligator after attempting to remove it from the road.
Cleveland, TX Police Department
An officer with the Cleveland Police Department is recovering after suffering a nasty bite from a huge alligator he was helping to corral. Sgt. David Edwards was helping officers and Liberty County sheriff's deputies remove the 10-feet-long alligator from the middle of the roadway on State Highway 105 bypass near U.S. 59 around midnight on Wednesday. As Edwards helped other officers attempting to place a noose on the fearsome reptile's mouth to drag it off the road, the alligator bit down on his left wrist.
As a result of the attack, Edwards suffered broken bones and lacerations, according to the police department. Photos shared by the police department show a deep laceration above his left wrist. The bite force of the average alligator jaw has been measured to exert around 2,000 pounds of pressure, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD).
Officers worked to remove an alligator on the road on the State Highway 105 bypass near U.S. 59.
Cleveland Police Department cted in East and Central Texas as floodwaters continue to recede.
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Never tip your hat and stop to talk a while, Don’t be taken in by his welcome grin...
And anyway, on a large gator or croc all you have to do is flip them and rub their belly. They go to sleep.
I was remembering the same thing. Gotta learn themselves how to rassle a gator!
Don’t come to Texas. We have those critters also.
P.S.: SAJNK.
I think that video should go viral. It’s a beaut!
beat me...
Great story, too. There is a link to an extended interview with the guy who was watching a hockey game at a rink with his kids and he got paged. Religious guy, and his MMA handle is “bluecollarmauler”!
Seemed like he would be a fun guy to know...former Marine, very good natured, God fearing, and non-Gator fearing! Had a genuine smile on his face the whole time!
That’s cool. I wonder if he would consider FReeping? He’d go over well around here.
Was the gator being transferred to the Rio Grande?
Gigantic?!?!?!?!?!
There are gators in the Okefenokee that could swallow that gator whole.
And the gator is just on the road...
No! Don’t kill the gator, he’s just on his way to the Rio Grande. There’re plenty of snacks there for him.
Poor guy. Joe Dirt got bit on the head and flung around and it didn’t even draw blood!
I saw ‘Cleveland’ and thought Whats an alligator doing in Ohio ???
:)
But this is Cleveland TX...
Theres a Cleveland in OH, GA and TN also and a couple of other states...
There is that. 😆
I have to talk them off of my floating dock, so I can get to my skiff, once in a while.
The ten footers, I’ll talk to, it’s the 14 foot and up I tend to just schedule my boating for later.
Just showed hubby. His response? “Git ‘er done!”
I think he’s a naturalized Southerner/ Floridian now. I have worn him down. ;)
Now the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man
He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator
And just use one hand
That’s all he got left cuz alligator bit it!
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!
It was pretty much the feel-good video of the last month. 😁
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