Posted on 08/20/2018 10:37:38 AM PDT by sodpoodle
At approximately 9:30 this morning, Sheriff's Office deputies,Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue and Sea Pines Security personnel responded to a lagoon off of Wood Duck Road in Sea Pines Plantation to a report of an alligator attacking a woman inside of a lagoon. When they arrived, fire personnel located the deceased woman inside of the lagoon and recovered her body, while deputies interviewed witnesses. Witness accounts indicate that the woman—who will be identified after her next of kin are notified—was walking her dog near the lagoon when she was attacked and pulled underwater by the alligator.
The Sheriff's Office Environmental Crimes Unit, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Sea Pines Security are on-scene searching for the alligator—reported to be approximately 8 feet in length. Additional information regarding the search for the alligator will be released later. Beaufort County Coroner Edward Allen scheduled an autopsy to be performed at the Medical University of South Carolina to determine the cause of the woman's death. The deceased woman's dog did not appear to be harmed during the incident.
Heard something similar happened in Florida recently, tourist walking her pup near water, the alligator ate her up.
We can hunt one per hunter a year in Texas...I don’t bother...Yucky, just not into eating lizards.
That might be funny if someone wasn’t dead.
They are there in the small ponds located here and there on base. I saw one while camping with some buddies that was only about 4 feet or so. They probably don’t get much bigger there because of the cold................
She didn’t to be faster than the gator - just faster than her dog.
It's those three inch teeth that are the problem.
Tagged along with my golfing husband at a Hilton head course...on one hole saw a huge Gator up on a hill. Wached that sucker carefully and got away asap.
Neighbor deep fried some lightly breaded gator tail meat. It was very good.
Yes, but the ordeal you have to go through.... Texas does not issue gator tags. One must first find and kill the gator, THEN take it to a station to get it measured and whatnot, THEN TXDPW issues you a tag, THEN you take it back home or wherever and do the work. Its a hassle and like I said they don’t taste THAT good. To me its not worth it.
I can put a hog or deer on ice in about 30 minutes after the kill. And they taste good.
Which is any body of water away from the coast in FL.
That’s what she said...
Limited seasonal licensed gator hunting, the prompt elimination of nuisance gators, and due caution by the public almost always suffice against the risk of gator attacks. Investigation of the handful of gator attacks on humans every year usually shows that a nuisance gator was unwisely fed or tolerated or that the victim was careless. The root problem is less that gators are a menace but that humans are sometimes negligent in guarding against their potential for harm.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3680733/posts
New thread with updates - 45 yr. old woman identified.
The roughly 8-foot-long alligator believed to be involved was captured by 11 a.m. and euthanized, McCullough said.
I stayed at this resort. Woke up to several small ones in the pond off my deck every morning. They were small ones, 2-4 footers
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