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Alligator kills man in SunCity SC
email from a friend | 8/14/2022 | multiple

Posted on 08/15/2022 11:44:04 AM PDT by sodpoodle

One person was killed in an apparent alligator attack in South Carolina on Monday, officials said.

The large alligator was spotted "near the edge of a pond" in Sun City Hilton Head, an adult-only community, "guarding what was believed to be a person," the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office said.

Responders found the gator and a dead person, the sheriff's office said. The victim hasn't been identified.

MORE: How to survive a gator attack: 'Fight like hell,' wildlife experts say Alligators are active during spring and summer, because when temperatures rise, their metabolism increases and they look for food, Melody Kilborn, a spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, told ABC News last month.


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To: fidelis

#31 is pretty good, actually.


21 posted on 08/15/2022 12:41:20 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: sodpoodle

When I was young, I remember people with alligator purses and shoes etc. Haven’t seen any in a while. Too may of the stories nowadays of people killed by gators. I blame environmentalists and animal-rights nuts. Maybe I am wrong, but they generally screw up things for people.


22 posted on 08/15/2022 12:46:06 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Seruzawa

I’m partial to #10.


23 posted on 08/15/2022 12:47:02 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: fidelis

I deserved that.....


24 posted on 08/15/2022 12:58:09 PM PDT by G Larry (May God continue to Bless Jim Robinson!)
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To: nutmeg

Gator bite ping!


25 posted on 08/15/2022 1:50:23 PM PDT by NautiNurse (The federal tyrants have awakened the sleeping giant. )
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To: sodpoodle; upchuck; DeplorablePaul; Toespi; ThePatriotsFlag; NautiNurse
Horrible. We're moving to Sun City HH, and have a house on a lagoon there.

I heard the deceased person is a woman, but -- regardless -- prayers for this deceased person.

26 posted on 08/15/2022 1:53:32 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: nutmeg

Stay out da bushes! Lagoons are where gators eat, live and breed.


27 posted on 08/15/2022 1:57:05 PM PDT by NautiNurse (The federal tyrants have awakened the sleeping giant. )
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To: NautiNurse
Just saw your ping (thanks!). Our SCHH friends have been emailing me about this.

Absolutely HORRIBLE. Prayers up for this woman or man who was apparently killed by a pretty large gator.

28 posted on 08/15/2022 1:57:15 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: NautiNurse
Lagoons are where gators eat, live and breed.

Yep... we've been warned. :-(

29 posted on 08/15/2022 2:03:16 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: nutmeg

When we were little munchkins vacationing in HH, Dad took us fishing off a little bridge. Gator snatched my brother’s bait, hook, line and sinker. Little bro’ cried for Dad to save his fishing gear. He got his first lesson in Dad’s super power limitations. Two days later, we saw the gator still dragging my brother’s bobber in the lagoon.


30 posted on 08/15/2022 2:46:29 PM PDT by NautiNurse (The federal tyrants have awakened the sleeping giant. )
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To: TakebackGOP

Kill all the alligators. How did they come to America?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Gators are nowhere near as dangerous as the invaders swimming across the Rio Grande everyday. And they’ve been here for centuries before any human set foot here. Don’t want to be eaten by one, then stay away from them.


31 posted on 08/15/2022 3:37:11 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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To: nutmeg

We live about two blocks from the scene. I fish on our lagoon all the time. Gators are around but most swim away if you approach. The exception are when baby alligators are around the female parent will attack. But mostly they are just “there” we respect them. Cooperheads are a bigger problem. We have lived here for 17 years, you will love it.


32 posted on 08/15/2022 5:44:53 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (When Ashli Babbitt’s video-taped murderer Michael Byrd is indicted, I’ll start paying attention.)
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To: nutmeg

An update if it already hasn’t been mentioned. The lady, her name was Nancy Becker, 88 years old, was gardening near her lagoon. She accidentally slipped and fell into the water and the gator grabbed her. Poor darling, living that long and dying that way, so sad.


33 posted on 08/15/2022 5:57:32 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: waterhill

“Sarcasm” I do not have very good Sarcasm reading skills...


34 posted on 08/15/2022 6:15:51 PM PDT by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: nutmeg; 07Jack; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; ...
Thanks for the ping nutmeg. Articles about this:

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article264523671.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/update-sun-city-woman-killed-in-monday-alligator-attack-identified-as-88-year-old/ar-AA10GIoE

https://www.wsav.com/crime-safety/1-dead-in-sun-city-alligator-attack-deputies-say/

Prayers for Ms. Becker and her family.

South Carolina Ping   

If you'd like to be on or off the South Carolina ping list, just click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

35 posted on 08/15/2022 6:22:13 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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To: waterhill

Why not just put down the gators that live next to people? Make a few handbags...


36 posted on 08/15/2022 6:29:58 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Where has Biden bin hidin?)
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To: sodpoodle

My sister lives near a lake with alligators, where we swam.


37 posted on 08/15/2022 8:28:50 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Why not just put down the gators that live next to people?

Because new alligators will take their place. Same with coyotes.

38 posted on 08/15/2022 8:45:37 PM PDT by NautiNurse (The federal tyrants have awakened the sleeping giant. )
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To: sodpoodle

I live in Sun City. There are at least two gators in every lagoon. I encounter gators on the golf course every day. Old people don’t run too fast. What if the gators have turned into zombies? I’m told you have to shoot them in the back of the head to kill them.


39 posted on 08/16/2022 5:59:34 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: Toespi
We live in Sun City and the local report is that it was a woman who was killed. Prayers up for her, just horrific. It seems she was walking her dog, and early reports are she was not real close to the lagoon, that the gator attacked her and dragged her into the water. Someone spotted a large gator guarding what was a body.

I have heard that Sun City is known (among other things) as God's waiting room. I guess the alligator got tired of waiting.

40 posted on 08/16/2022 6:25:36 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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