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Video shows visitor save alligator handler’s ‘life and limbs’ in attack at Utah reptile center
ktla ^ | Aug 16, 2021

Posted on 08/16/2021 6:18:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Video taken by a guest shows an unidentified handler at Scales & Tails Utah, in suburban Salt Lake City, talking to some adults and children about the alligator Saturday when it bit her hand and dragged her into the water.

Shane Richins, the company’s owner, said...this time the reptile “got a little extra spunky.”

One of the guests, later identified as Donnie Wiseman, yelled “We’ve got trouble in here!” before jumping into the water and climbing on top of the reptile.

Wiseman got the alligator pinned, and the handler calmly gave him and another man, Todd Christopher, instructions to help her escape from the pool. Wiseman stayed on top of the reptile until the woman was free.

Christopher’s wife... then began performing first aid before emergency crews arrived at the scene.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alligator; gator; reptile; utah
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1 posted on 08/16/2021 6:18:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu61ZNLRCIo


2 posted on 08/16/2021 6:18:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Alligators…..

Tasty appetizer and good luggage.


3 posted on 08/16/2021 6:20:49 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: BenLurkin

Give that lady a hand.


4 posted on 08/16/2021 6:20:50 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say )
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To: BenLurkin

Hat tip to “Crocodile Donny”. Well done!


5 posted on 08/16/2021 6:22:54 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: BenLurkin

Stupidity. No other word for it.


6 posted on 08/16/2021 6:25:16 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hi.

This is a PSA

Alligators are fu@cking dangerous...

Even a small one will draw blood. A 12 ft. alligator will eat you and your dog.

Don’t come to Florida. If a gator doesn’t get you, an illegal immigrant will.

5.56mm


7 posted on 08/16/2021 6:26:26 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: BenLurkin

Give that man a Blue Ribbon.


8 posted on 08/16/2021 6:27:38 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: BenLurkin

Is Donnie Wiseman a “Florida Man”?


9 posted on 08/16/2021 6:30:48 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: BenLurkin

There are men and there are those that call for help. Examples of both here.


10 posted on 08/16/2021 6:32:03 PM PDT by CFW
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To: BenLurkin

Terrifying just watching the video. Oh, that poor Lady’s forearm must have felt like it was caught in a meat grinder.
She was incrediblly calm throughout the entire ordeal.
I didn’t have the sound on, by the way.

Too bad the children were able to witness it all but maybe they should know how quickly dangerous these animals can become. I would have thought she’d be wearing up to the elbow gloves, made of heavy material.

This appeared to be a young Gator, still rather small compared to many I’ve seen in other photos.
They obviously are born with an instinct to hunt.
No ‘teaching’ was needed.


11 posted on 08/16/2021 6:33:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

Good on him!


12 posted on 08/16/2021 6:33:18 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: BenLurkin
Shane Richins, the company’s owner, said...this time the reptile “got a little extra spunky.”

If it were my company, that gator would now be a static display.

13 posted on 08/16/2021 6:38:26 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: BenLurkin

Crocs and gators prevailed over what killed every dinosaur. They are not to be trifled with.


14 posted on 08/16/2021 6:39:58 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: BenLurkin

That thing would have twisted her arm off if the guy hadn’t jumped on top of the gator.


15 posted on 08/16/2021 6:49:02 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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“Said in an interview Monday that the handler was opening the enclosure to feed the alligator as usual,”

And any behaviorist will tell you that she waited too long, she ignored the first jump from the alligator.

She was too busy talking and the alligator had been trained that the gate opens, it eats.


16 posted on 08/16/2021 6:55:12 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: rlmorel

What was stupid?


17 posted on 08/16/2021 6:56:07 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…. )
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To: MarMema

Should have said “lunge”


18 posted on 08/16/2021 6:56:28 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Blood of Tyrants

He was a guest!!! He was great!!!
So impressed.


19 posted on 08/16/2021 6:59:27 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: BenLurkin

Wow. Straight out of Elmore Leonard. That’s one of his best books.


20 posted on 08/16/2021 7:00:41 PM PDT by firebrand ( )
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