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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.
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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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To: Joe Brower; Calpernia
To: Al Gator
Gator Attacks Naked Man On Crack
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:36:31 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: girlangler
" A pipe full of crack cocaine: $30.00
A bottle of MD 20/20 earlier: $ 9.00
Wandering stoned and naked into a swamp and having an alligator chomp your ... a$$ off: Priceless "
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:39:05 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Liz; fanfan; Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; potlatch
" Never mix crack and gators. "
8-)
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:42:21 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: ladyjane
They are all over East Texas and they literally walk here from Louisiana! They turn up in lakes, swimming pools, ponds and stock tanks. I have a friend that works at the zoo in Tyler and they had one that was radio tagged in Mississippi and they caught it in Lake Palestine, thats a 400 + mile walk.
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:43:18 AM PST
by
txroadkill
(how 'bout Dem Cowboys!!!)
To: devolve; george76
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:48:48 AM PST
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: potlatch
Nice.
Would the gator get stoned if he ate the crack head ?
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:51:27 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: BerniesFriend
The alligator was cleaning up a typical Liberal.
28
posted on
11/30/2006 11:53:41 AM PST
by
Doc91678
(Doc91678)
To: devolve; george76
Might be tastier that way!
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:54:33 AM PST
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: ladyjane
They actually do have a legal alligator hunting season. Apparently they need to kill more, judging by the gator/human conflicts I keep reading about.
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:00:12 PM PST
by
girlangler
(Fish Fear Me)
To: ladyjane
The Sabine River, on the Texas/Louisiana border, is full of them, as is other bodies of water in Texas, including sightings in Sam Rayburn Lake.
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:02:39 PM PST
by
girlangler
(Fish Fear Me)
To: gdani
"Gator got your cracker."
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:02:52 PM PST
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: txroadkill
West Tennessee now has gators migrating from Arkansas
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:03:50 PM PST
by
girlangler
(Fish Fear Me)
To: gdani
I was thinking of that song.
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:05:05 PM PST
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: Caipirabob
Attacked by an alligator while innocently naked and smoking crack. I HATE when that happens to me!
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:07:32 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: Sax
A gator 20 feet from you now? Are you naked and smoking crack? If so, seek shelter.
36
posted on
11/30/2006 12:10:41 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: ladyjane
and Louisiana and Alabama and Mississippi and Georgia.
37
posted on
11/30/2006 12:13:00 PM PST
by
wordsofearnest
(Zachary Taylor s/h finished the job.)
To: ladyjane
We have alligators on our ranch in Brazoria County Texas, in Oyster Creek and in our bass fishing pond.
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:13:23 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: wordsofearnest
and South Carolina and North Carolina
39
posted on
11/30/2006 12:14:55 PM PST
by
wordsofearnest
(Zachary Taylor s/h finished the job.)
To: george76
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:26:29 PM PST
by
Liz
(Nearly all men can stand adversity, but to test a man's character, give him power. Abe Lincoln)
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