Posted on 05/06/2020 7:12:13 AM PDT by Bon mots
COLUMBIA, SC- Throughout the coronavirus outbreak, many have resorted to at-home salon services as non-essential businesses have closed. A woman in South Carolina was attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community while attempting to do the homeowner's nails on Friday.
Authorities say 58-year-old Cynthia Covert was trying to touch the alligator when it grabbed her. She was able to briefly get out of the animal's grip and stood waist-deep in the Kiawah Island pond.
She told the homeowner, "I guess I won't do this again," but the alligator grabbed her in its jaws again and took her under, according to police reports.
Covert died of drowning before Charleston County deputies and firefighters were able to shoot and kill the alligator. They used poles to get her out of the pond, authorities say.
The homeowner told deputies Covert was professional in her salon but was relaxed and excited at her home. She also said Covert brought wine with her that she was drinking throughout her visit.
While working on the porch, Covert saw the alligator and took photos of it. The woman and her husband that live at the residence screamed for her to get away from the alligator as they saw it grab a deer a few days prior, deputies said.
According to the report, Covert said, "I don't look like a deer," and reached to touch the animal when it attacked.
The husband and neighbor threw Covert a rope and she was able to stand in the pond. After stating she would not do that again, she was pulled under again, according to the report.
Deputies and firefighters searched for Colvert for 10 minutes before her body surfaced. When the alligator surfaced again, a deputy shot the animal in the head with a 9 mm handgun.
While Covert's leg was severely damaged, an autopsy determined she drowned, the Charleston County Coroner's Office said.
In the past four years, three people have been killed by alligators in South Carolina.
Kiawah Island Mayor Craig Weaver called Covert's death "a terrible tragedy."
"We live closely with nature on this island. An alligator caused death is exceedingly rare and has not happened on our island before to my knowledge," Weaver said in a statement Sunday. "We know that we must act responsibly and with care around these animals. Consequently, it will be important to know and to share with the community the facts and circumstances from this tragedy, so we can avoid experiencing anything like this again," Weaver said.
Before 2016, the state did not have any alligator-related deaths recorded.
I know sympathy really
Sympathy cost you so much personally and all
Wrong! She's too old.
stupid or not, I could never ever live where alligators are in the waters.....no thx....
She thinks she can pet an alligator and she lived in a society that thinks it can shut down the economy for a flu bug and just shrug it off. When people are soft and stupid they lose track of reality.
Nothing in this hit piece(disparaging Mom&Pops that want to open) mentions anything about her doing the owners nails. The author simply implies that.
She worked for the home owner and was visiting and swilling wine. She was rushed and stupid.
Obviously drunk or tipsy
Blame the booze not the dead gator, he just saw food
Free Republic booze brigade can toast her booze fueled wisdom tonight as they get snockered
I grew up in gator country
We did not swim near them nor try to touch them
Though my cousin was part of a group that stole a huge bull gator from the Jackson Zoo and took it to a farm pond of one their families
To this day the then senior in high school senior ringleader is known as Alligator Brown
Heist gators and Vietnam ..or Woodstock...what a time
I was in 7th grade
They were legends to us
Summer 1969
“attempting to do the homeowner’s nails”
She was the dead dummies boss,shopowner. Attempting to do her nails, was the homeowner/Shop owner struggling resisting.
Author is a jerk.
Need to see if there is a comments section and hammer away
I didn’t read the article...Is the moral of the story..Don’t do nails at home or else you risk being attacked by alligators?
Also, i would assume that includes animals like bears,Elk in heat, big foot and rabid squirrels?
No ‘gators and no Murder Hornets! ;)
‘Gator IS good eating, though!
I believe the poster was referring to the fact that in many muni’s anyone that dies during this CV19 debacle is considered a CV19 fatality
Famous last words.
A few years ago a drunk college kid got into a fight with a campus cop. It did not end well.
The drunk college kid’s famous last words were ...
What, are you gonna shoot me?
I suppose if you follow the chain of causation, you are correct.
Natural selection at work.
Good God, even worse thing to say when you can clearly see someone DOES have a gun!
The oldest verified mother to conceive naturally (listed currently as of 26 January 2017 in the Guinness Records) is Dawn Brooke (UK); she conceived a son at the age of 59 years in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_over_age_50
It happened here in my hometown. I FReeped about it. It was caught on the wanna be cop’s uniform cam.
Terrible, just terrible.
Yep because they killed off all the evil SUV’s the sage continues.
an autopsy determined she drowned
That’s how gators and crocks kill their prey, grab them and hold them underwater.
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