Posted on 06/09/2022 8:47:43 PM PDT by simpson96
A man lost a chunk of his leg when he was attacked by an alligator outside a Florida hotel after mistaking the reptile for a dog, police said.
The bizarre incident unfolded as the man was walking outside the Warm Mineral Springs Motel in North Port around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and noticed a dark figure shuffling around in some bushes, WFLA reported, citing the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.
Thinking that it was a dog attached to a long leash, the man didn’t move out of the way when the gator charged toward him.
Then the alligator bit his leg and ripped off a piece of his muscle tissue, deputies said.
A deputy who was out on a separate call in the area responded. The man was taken by paramedics to the Sarasota Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to WWSB.
While waiting for an animal trapper to respond, another deputy was able to capture the gator, which was removed from the area.
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As I read the headline, who interviewed the alligator to see why it made the mistake?
When bears and other critters taste human flesh, they are killed. They let this gator GO???
Big gator, large chunk of flesh. Ouch !
As if Florida Man didn’t have enough to worry about...Now it’s gators dressed as dogs.
Well, it does sort of look like a dog, you know. Except for the green part.
How drunk do you have to be to mistake an alligator for a dog?
I’m not sure, but that may have more to do with aggressive behavior and acclimation to humans in mammals than actual taste, per se.
Heeeere kitty kitty kitty kitty....
Why aren’t alligators killed when this happens. Can someone kill it i self defense?
There are chunks of the story missing in the article too.
Maybe the gator them.
So, somebody was walking outside of the warm mineral springs at midnight. STOP right there.
Was he walking close to waters known to have gators in them, and doing this walking at midnight?
He was looking for trouble and trouble found him first.
**How do the police know this is the same gator who bit the guys leg?
The local zoo is grooming alligators since DeSantis crapped in their punch bowl. There can’t be to many of these Florida men. Not with the dumb shitz they are constantly doing. They say you can’t cure stupid. Maybe a little gator exposure can. Sheesh!
Maybe the alligator needs glasses, mistaking a leg for a dog.
The gator bit him across the right shoulder… but Florida Man escaped.
I though the same thing 🤣
It seems to me that you can kill any critter if it’s attacking you.
Just an opinion, but there may be no sense in killing an alligator after the fact, just on the assumption that it has ‘tasted’ human flesh, and will chomp again. Their instincts and awareness aren’t the same as those in mammals.
When wild mammals attack humans, they are acting from a different kind of awareness, and probably have the ability to remember and identify. I don’t think reptiles possess those.
Perhaps alcohol was involved?
Not an insignificant reptile. I don’t think he mistook it for a Yorkie.
GO GATORS!!!!
An alligator walks into a bar....
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