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Deputies: Naked man on crack when alligator attacked (Florida)
Sun Sentinel ^
| November 30 2006
| Amy L. Edwards
Posted on 11/30/2006 9:38:59 AM PST by Caipirabob
LAKELAND -- Deputy Billy Osborne heard the man's cries for help but couldn't see him through the thick brush and pre-dawn darkness.
" 'I have two broken arms, and an alligator's got me pinned. I can't move. Please help me,' " the Polk County deputy sheriff recalled the man saying at a news conference Wednesday.
As Osborne listened, he followed the pleading voice through more than 20 yards of weeds in Lake Parker's murky, chest-deep water about 4 a.m.
Then he saw them: a naked man slumped over, caught in the jaws of a huge alligator amid thick cattails in bloodied water. He said the man, who had been using drugs and lost a lot of blood, seemed oddly calm.
...
Judd said Apgar told deputies he had been smoking crack cocaine at the adjacent park, but it was unclear why he was naked or how he was attacked by the alligator.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: alligator; crack; crackhead; crikey; darwin; dumb; florida; gator; holdmuhcrackpipe; humor; snacktime; theotherwhitemeat
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The police were absolutely heroic here. No further comment necessary.
To: Caipirabob
Alright...here it goes..."This is your gator. This is your gator on crackhead".
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posted on
11/30/2006 9:39:54 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Caipirabob
As if Florida doesn't have enough problems, why do they want to keep alligators around?
You can't shoot alligators, can you? I mean legally.
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posted on
11/30/2006 9:43:29 AM PST
by
ladyjane
To: Caipirabob
Naked man on crack when alligator attacked (Florida) Something if it happened during the day..I can see it now..kid asks parent.."Daddy..what is the alligator doing to that man?".."Just weeding out the stupid ones in nature..that is all dear."..
To: Caipirabob
To: Caipirabob
Okay that beats my post titled: Feds collect giant rats in Florida
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posted on
11/30/2006 9:45:03 AM PST
by
Redcitizen
(This tagline is 100 percent Trans Fat free)
To: ladyjane
I always believed that the only alligators should be on the alligator farms and in the zoos.
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posted on
11/30/2006 9:46:28 AM PST
by
GSlob
To: Caipirabob
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posted on
11/30/2006 9:47:17 AM PST
by
gdani
(Save the cheerleader, save the world)
To: Caipirabob
The guy was naked?
I guess the 'gator wanted some crack, too...
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posted on
11/30/2006 9:48:17 AM PST
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: ladyjane
In this part of Texas there is a Alligator season, first 2 weeks of September.
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posted on
11/30/2006 9:55:12 AM PST
by
txroadhawg
("To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors." Ronald Reagan)
To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
To: Caipirabob
A trapper caught a nearly 12-foot, 600-pound alligator Wednesday afternoon that investigators think could have been the one involved in the attack because it was feeding near where Apgar was found, agency spokesman Gary Morse said. The animal was to be destroyed later. OK, but what will they do to the alligator???
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:05:01 AM PST
by
txroadkill
(how 'bout Dem Cowboys!!!)
To: ladyjane
We have a permit lottery for open season - each geographic area issues a site specific number of permits.
Actually there's a little 4-5 footer in the pond about 20' from where my car is parked right now.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:08:52 AM PST
by
Sax
To: Caipirabob
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
It's an alleged alligator attack.
Let's get the aclu shipped out to the swamps asap, to prevent infringement of alligator rights.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:13:22 AM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
(When true genius appears, know him by this sign: all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.)
To: txroadhawg
There are alligators in Texas?
You're kidding me, right?
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:15:42 AM PST
by
ladyjane
To: Caipirabob
Oh come on now. All of us have been clamped in a gator's jaws high on crack and nakid at SOME point.....
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:21:21 AM PST
by
Hi Heels
(God bless you, ZM. Keep fighting.)
To: Horatio Gates
I knew that crackheads get sexed up like crazy when on a 2-3 day binge, but jeez! A Gator?
To: ladyjane
I saw one in a small park off of Memorial in Houston. It is a marsh. The gator wasn't big at all--fox-sized maybe.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:45:22 AM PST
by
Cyclopean Squid
(Authoritarianism depends on lack of information. Totalitarianism depends on misinformation.)
To: bmwcyle
Wonder how close Lakeland is to Gainesville?
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:55:59 AM PST
by
Apple Blossom
(...around here, city hall is something of a between meals snack.)
To: txroadkill
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:56:29 AM PST
by
marmar
(Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs....RED, WHITE, @ BLUE.)
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