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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Sounds like a government grant ripe for the picking.
How soon does crack get into an alligators system after chomping on a naked crackhead and then impede the roll/kill used by gators? This has potential as gator repellant.
Of course, one might also seek a grant for the use of gators to prevent the use of crack?
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