Posted on 09/05/2022 1:08:39 PM PDT by sodpoodle
A77-year-old woman was bitten by an alligator near a pond in a gated community in Florida. The 7-foot, 10-inch alligator responsible for the attack has been captured, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said in a statement to CBS News. FWC received a report at about 6 p.m. on Saturday that a woman had been bitten by an alligator in Bradenton, Florida. An FWC nuisance alligator trapper was dispatched, and the Manatee County Sheriff's Office and Manatee County EMS also responded to the scene. After the woman was bitten, a witness kept an eye on the alligator until first responders were able to capture it. There were no other alligators in the area that fit the size and description, so officials are confident they removed the correct alligator from the area, FWC said in the statement. The woman was was taken to a hospital to be treated for her injuries. As of Monday morning, she was still under medical evaluation, the agency said. CBS News has reached out to the local sheriff's department, fire rescue and EMS for more information and is awaiting response. Last month, a woman was killed in an apparent alligator attack in a gated community South Carolina. When Beaufort County sheriff's deputies arrived on scene at the Sun City development, a large alligator was found by the woman's body. In July, two alligators killed a woman at a pond near her home in Sarasota County, Florida.
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They found a gator in one of the bathrooms in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World.
In Savannah, we have them on the beach.
You put out baited hooks, and check daily.
Some Gated Community. A few of the original ‘residents’ are 7’10”, crawl around in the mud and have no intention of moving except to snap up some food. Apparently the gators are a feature, not a bug. Be careful putting Grandma into this place.
My stars and garters! Thank God she wasn't bitten by an 8 foot alligator! That would have really bad.
How did the alligator get into the gated community?
Who gave it the code?
We had a five-footer that would visit us when we set up the Coleman stove in the ‘Glades. We’d feed it hotdogs and ice cubes.
I saw that too.
The whiny “I hate humans but don’t have the courage of my convictions to go to Holland or Canuckistan and have a doctor kill me so I’m not a burden on the planet” leftist responses used to bother me.
So we humans are encroaching on THEIR turf.
Right.
Tell that to the giant ecosphere-killing meteor or supervolcano ELE’s that come around about every 600,000 years or so.
I don’t hear anyone complaining about moving earth out of THEIR neighborhood.
Yet.
I’m probably moving to the Naples area . . . how are the critters there? and, do they have dog parks in the area?
Former FR Floridian misanthrope Sungirl used to bellyache about the Florida panther and encroachment on its habitat. It didn’t occur to her that she might be to blame, having moved to a county with 75 golf courses. I guess. When confronted with that, she accused people of stalking her, and removed her location from her FR profile.
Those gingers and their Natty Ice.
As if the bugs were not bad enouh.
I’ve eaten gator several times and it is okay. It’s pretty expensive unless you are hunting them and if I’m going to spend that much money, I won’t be buying gator.
We go swimming in the Suwannee River and Ocean Pond all the time. We like to fish and go boating too. You just have to have a healthy respect for the gators and understand their habits.
Are you talking about alligators or democrats?
Don’t even think about dog parks if you love your dog.
Yep. And that’s probably why it is free in Naples …
Ummm, fried gator tail
Is it climbing the fence?
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