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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many natives swim and float alligator rivers every day, sun up to well before sunset, after they stalk you..Not my way to keep cool, pool better
well if it will penetrate a gator hide them it should be fine for illegal immigrants killing our children..
I know right! My thoughts exactly.
Fatally, huh.
Mating season. That’s especially when you need to stay away. Growing up in Florida, we’d go waterskiing but we’d always be careful about where and when. If you encounter one in the water and he wants to get you, you’re screwed.
OMG, well - that’s unique!
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