Posted on 09/02/2013 7:46:07 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW YORK, - A Long Island, N.Y., man filed suit against a Mexican golf resort after be lost two fingers to a crocodile after chipping out of a sand trap.
Edward Lunger, 50, Holtsville, said he was grabbed by a croc that had been hiding in the nearby bushes and clamped down on his arm.
Lunger told the New York Post the Iberostar Cancun Golf Club knew the croc was prowling around but did nothing more than hang some yellow tape around its hideout.
"That means 'Grounds under repair' in America," said Lunger, who was rushed to a hospital where one finger was attached but two others could not be saved. He said he had to pony up more than $17,000 in advance before the emergency surgery.
Lunger's partner, Mark Martin, told the Post he watched his buddy's routine bunker shot turn into a life-and-death struggle. "All of a sudden, his arm went back, and his head went back," Martin recalled. "I saw the crocodile leap up."
Martin picked up a large rock that was nearby and dropped it on the crocodile, which had a firm grip in Lunger's arm. The blow caused the reptile to let go.
Martin made a tourniquet out of a golf towel and rushed his bleeding friend to the club house in their gold cart.
LOL ... am expecting to see the croc on a boat or on the train. Planes work too. That’s what we need are flying crocs ... am certain the SS will get right on it.
:)
I love the random Abe Lincoln appearance.
Yeah, well, you were in Mexico you dummkopf. Next time get a Mexican-to-English dictionary of tape colors.
Ouch.
Play golf in the USA.
He’s lucky the alligator wasn’t armed.
Had to pay $17,000 in advance? Why don’t we take that approach with our “visitors” from south of the border?
I can’t say I feel any pity for anyone who has issues when visiting Mexico.
maybe that'll teach-em to stay the HELL out of mexco...
How nice. They had a cart made of gold. Evil rich Republicans! They deserved to lose their fingers to a crocodile chipping out of a sand trap!
Sorry. LOOSE their fingers.
“Had to pay $17,000 in advance? Why don’t we take that approach with our “visitors” from south of the border?”
In the U.S., if you show up at an Emergency Department with an acute problem, you get treated - period. But to liberals, we are the bad greedy people, and the rest of the world are more ethical than us. This incident is exactly what the liberals who trash our ‘previous’ medical system should be slapped in the face with.
Sounds like “rub of the green” to me...
He did get a free drop though.
When they say this course has some tough hazards, they’re not kidding.
Nobody told the croc he had to stay behind the yellow tape...
Um, lose. You were right the first time.
I did a project for a fellow who was in a motorcycle wreck in Mexico several years ago.
Ended up losing his leg due to infection from the filthy hospital.
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