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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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To: Caipirabob
LOL! I'm laughing at both the comments and the new keywords...I tried to be compassionate...for all of 2 seconds...really!
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:33:48 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Ditter
Ah, if he's just over 4 feet and a third of that is tail, he ain't so big. There's no doubt he'd scurry away if I tried to get close. I see him a few times a week on the grass trying to warm up in the sun. I'm sure once he gets too big, they'll have him pulled out of there and dropped in some remote lake.
Over in Orlando, Lake Jessup is the dumping ground for Orlando area gators pulled from neighborhoods. That lake is choc full of 'em. There was also a lake on Kennedy Space Center that looked like a dumping ground, one day I counted over 30 in about a 3 acre lake.
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:33:56 PM PST
by
Sax
To: potlatch
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:34:59 PM PST
by
devolve
( .................always shop, invest, & hire wisely)
To: devolve
Lol, I forgot about your alligator. Too bad the tail doesn't whack Bubba off the screen!
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posted on
11/30/2006 12:37:11 PM PST
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: potlatch
I upsized the Gator just for this thread post....
Too good to miss!
45
posted on
11/30/2006 12:56:36 PM PST
by
devolve
( .................always shop, invest, & hire wisely)
To: george76
" Never mix crack and gators. " Especially when naked.
46
posted on
11/30/2006 12:58:12 PM PST
by
TommyDale
(Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
To: Sax
I was on a business call at Kennedy Space Center. I came out to my car, and a 7 foot alligator was under it. I patiently waited for him to leave.
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posted on
11/30/2006 1:00:30 PM PST
by
TommyDale
(Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
To: george76
Butt munchin all the way!!
48
posted on
11/30/2006 1:03:36 PM PST
by
Al Gator
(Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
To: TommyDale
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posted on
11/30/2006 1:07:11 PM PST
by
Sax
To: Sax
Whoa!! How big was that one? I asked the gate guard as I was leaving, my heart still racing, "How often does that happen?" He laughed and said, "Too often!"
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posted on
11/30/2006 1:18:02 PM PST
by
TommyDale
(Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
To: Caipirabob
Why don't cops unload their weapons into the head of the alligator instead of "playing tug-a-war"?
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posted on
11/30/2006 1:22:13 PM PST
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: TommyDale
I don't really know, can't even see half of his tail, looks to be about 9 foot (give or take) I'd guess. The guy who found it came upon it with the lights off - can you image the giant electric exclamation point you'd feel in your brain as you recognized the large silhouette on the shop floor for what it was. That's a shot of adrenaline.
52
posted on
11/30/2006 1:25:51 PM PST
by
Sax
To: DCPatriot
Gators are really fond of thrashing or taking their victims for a 'death roll' in the water - the deputies were probably unsure of their shots. Plus the guy was in it's mouth which means the brain was only a scant few inches away and it was dark.
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posted on
11/30/2006 1:29:00 PM PST
by
Sax
To: ladyjane
The town I live in Anahuac calls itself the Alligator Capitol of the US. We have GatorFest every year to coincide with the hunting season. People bring in the biggest catch as well as all kinds of gator food. Its a blast, y'all come visit some day.
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posted on
11/30/2006 2:01:29 PM PST
by
txroadhawg
("To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors." Ronald Reagan)
To: george76
Gator Attacks Naked Man On Crack BLUES....
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posted on
11/30/2006 3:08:51 PM PST
by
Hi Heels
(God bless you, ZM. Keep fighting.)
To: Hi Heels
Sounds like a good song title :
Gator Attacks Naked Man On Crack BLUES....
56
posted on
11/30/2006 3:22:46 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: RepoGirl; Larry Lucido
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.Comments, please.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:05:21 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: lesser_satan; RepoGirl
I'd probably have said the same thing.
To: lesser_satan
I heard about this at the gym yesterday and was flabbergasted as to why this idiot was swimming in a lake at 4 in the morning.
The lakes here are so infested with the critters, that none of my triathlon buds want to go for outdoor swims.
But, all seriousness aside, this is just par for the course here in Florida. To borrow a quote from Steve Martin, "people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority..."
I love Florida.
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posted on
11/30/2006 8:36:44 PM PST
by
RepoGirl
("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
To: Caipirabob
Alright...here it goes..."This is your gator. This is your gator on crackhead".So does this now make the gator a "Crack-odile"?
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posted on
12/01/2006 2:44:53 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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