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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Florida + pond = gator
It’s not worth the cost of the ball
This course sounds alot nicer:
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070626/NEWS/706260335
That is some water trap they have there./s
and don’t forget the pretty snakes. How does it go “red touches yellow is a friendly fellow”?
Well I saw the thing coming out of the sky
It had one long horn and one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said oo-wee
It looks like a purple people eater to me
It was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater Sure looks good to me
Well, he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said mr Purple People Eater don't eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
I wouldn't eat you 'cos you're too tough
It was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater
It sure looks strange to me
I said mr Purple People Eater what's your line
He said eating purple people and it sure is fine
But that's not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock 'n roll band
Well, bless my soul rock 'n roll flying' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed under-growed flyin' purple people eater
one-eyed one-horned it was a people eater
What a sight to see
Well, he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground
he started to rock really rockin' around
It was a crazy ditty with a swinging tune
Wop bop a lula wop bam boom
one-eyes one-horned flying people eater
Ooh, it sure looks strange to me
Well he went on his way and then what do you know
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was a blowin' it out and really knockin' them dead
Playing rock 'n roll music through the horn in his head
Gives new meaning to ‘water hazard’.
Did it cost him a stroke?
Sounds like the Gator in Happy Gilmore. I think that one was blind in one eye as well....
It isn’t so much the cost of the ball as the shot it costs to take the drop /s
Now THAT’s a serious water hazard....
I would add, Florida + fresh or brackish water = gator
Just like Tubbs...
More sloppy writing. Did he “almost lose a limb”, or was he “not seriously injured”? Personally I would call those two statements incompatible.
Hmmm, wonder if the PGA will adopt these type of hazards on the tour? Make golf on TV more interesting.
I know how you score a “birdie”...but on his card how do you mark this as a “gator”????
change his name to lefty
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