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One-eyed gator pulls golfer into pond
CNN ^ | June 26, 2007

Posted on 06/26/2007 11:24:46 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

VENICE, Florida (AP) -- A man who lost his ball in a golf course pond nearly lost a limb when a nearly 11-foot alligator latched on to his arm and pulled him in the water, authorities said.

Bruce Burger, 50, was trying to retrieve his ball Monday from a pond on the sixth hole at the Lake Venice Golf Club.

The alligator latched on to Burger's right forearm and pulled him in the pond, said Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Burger used his left arm to beat the reptile until it freed him.

"I saw him reach down to get his ball and he yelled" for help, said Janet Pallo, who was playing the fifth hole and ran over to drive the man to the clubhouse.

Burger, from Lenoir City, Tennessee, was taken to a hospital but was not seriously injured, Morse said Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alligator; golf; golfer
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Mullah Omar of alligators!


21 posted on 06/26/2007 11:34:37 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: rightwingextremist1776

22 posted on 06/26/2007 11:35:29 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently now my party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Mac94

Really! HAve a landmine trap, machine gun nest at the eighth hole.....


23 posted on 06/26/2007 11:38:22 AM PDT by Hi Heels (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

So what did he end up shooting?


24 posted on 06/26/2007 11:38:44 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: massgopguy
and don’t forget the pretty snakes. How does it go “red touches yellow is a friendly fellow”?

Oh, geez!

I know you're being facetious, but lest anyone believe you:

"Red next to yellow will kill a fellow, red next to black is a friend to Jack"

25 posted on 06/26/2007 11:41:08 AM PDT by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: Hi Heels

Thank you, ever so much, for reminding me of that song. Now it’s banging around inside my head — just as it did back then.


26 posted on 06/26/2007 11:42:59 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

Rock on, babe. *snicker*


27 posted on 06/26/2007 11:43:49 AM PDT by Hi Heels (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I hate it when that happens.


28 posted on 06/26/2007 11:43:52 AM PDT by Palladin (NO Shamnesty!!!)
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To: AppyPappy
That's one good reason to always use one of these rather than reaching down into the water to get a ball:


29 posted on 06/26/2007 11:47:55 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Hi Heels

Great song! I remember it well!


30 posted on 06/26/2007 11:53:47 AM PDT by b4its2late (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: VRWCmember

So YOU’RE the one holding up play with a pile of golf balls at your feet! Where’s a gator when you need one?


31 posted on 06/26/2007 11:58:21 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: doug from upland

Did it cost him a stroke?

That experience might have given him one.


32 posted on 06/26/2007 11:59:49 AM PDT by Sapper26 (Quondo Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"Burger used his left arm to beat the reptile until it freed him."

If he had used a 3-iron to beat the reptile, would those strokes count?

33 posted on 06/26/2007 12:01:36 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: VRWCmember
My parents live just off of common place for the first whack at hole number 5 to land. We see lots of these:


34 posted on 06/26/2007 12:03:53 PM PDT by bannie (Dear God, please save our Great Nation from another division like that in her First Civil War!)
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To: VRWCmember

Time to add the bangstick to his golf bag.


35 posted on 06/26/2007 12:07:12 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Tubbs!


36 posted on 06/26/2007 12:11:36 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside (Rudy Giuliani is just another "Empty Dress Republican")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Right in the middle of mating season? This guy was CrAzY!


37 posted on 06/26/2007 12:12:42 PM PDT by Daffynition (Label Warning: Formerly known as "rainbow sprinkles")
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To: massgopguy

Don’t even joke about that and have the wrong saying get Googled ... please pull your post. Killed one near the house here in Fla. Y’all don’t have them up there; we do.


38 posted on 06/26/2007 12:38:28 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
A man who lost his ball in a golf course pond

Forget to keep both hands over his dingaling.

39 posted on 06/26/2007 2:37:32 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Diversity in theory is the enemy of diversity in practice.)
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To: Hi Heels
re: #1 The One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater
40 posted on 06/26/2007 5:09:11 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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