Posted on 07/02/2018 9:00:42 PM PDT by Innovative
A Florida deputy was able to rescue a teenage girl who had been cornered in a tree by a large alligator by shooting it with an AR-15 rifle.
Jordan Broderick, 15, was stuck in a tree in Lake County for nearly an hour on Friday afternoon because a 10-foot alligator sat on the ground below, hissing at her, the Sun-Sentinel reported, citing a sheriff's office report. Deputy Mitch Blackmon responded to the scene, where he found the teen — who had been swimming in a creek in Ocala National Forest — yelling that she was tired from hanging onto a tree branch for so long.
Blackmon wrote in his report that his "presence failed to scare the alligator away, and it began encroaching on my area at which time I fired one single 223 round from my Bushmaster AR15 killing the alligator." "My daughter's stuck in a frickin' tree and there's gators surrounding her!" Broderick's mother reportedly told a 911 dispatcher. "Oh my God! Please hurry! Please hurry!"
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The girl may have fallen off and the alligator would have killed her.
Was it an alligator of color? If so, you know what to expect!
who swims in florida’s waters with all the alligators?
Not that girl in the future.
I though AR15s were only good for mass shootings
More than one person has spouted off that other than a war, there is absolutely NO need for the weapon.
Maybe some of those with these ideas should go try and convince the girls family about the dangers of an AR15.
I though AR15s were only good for mass shootings
More than one person has spouted off that other than a war, there is absolutely NO need for the weapon.
Maybe some of those with these ideas should go try and convince the girls family about the dangers of an AR15.
I miss Jerry Reed.
Why didn’t he just shoot the alligator in the leg? Or a warning shot? Alligator Lives Matter!
I miss Jerry Reed. Original and funny.
Dispatching an animal is now referred to as a "fatality?" Then I just "fatally" swatted a fly!
Regards,
The girl was paddling on a raft, and the gator started coming for her. She landed the raft and scampered up a tree.
They call alligators ‘gators’. But they don’t call crocodiles ‘diles’?
They call ‘em ‘crocs’.
But I guess the problem is when you try to call alligators ‘allis’.
What other reason would there be to shoot anyone, let alone an alligator, if it’s not to fatally shoot them?
Was it a real AR-15 or just one of those media-invented “anything that shoots and looks scary” AR-15s?
Is alligator lives matter rioting?
” at which time I fired one single 223 round from my Bushmaster AR15 killing the alligator.” “My daughter’s stuck in a frickin’ tree and there’s gators surrounding her!”
I like a man who gets to the point.
I hope this guy is married. Because the “So how was your day, honey?” conversation must have been epic.
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Nobody told the sheriff that ARs are “only good for killing people”.
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