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‘Hand Is Gone!’: Man Loses Hand To Huge Alligator While Fishing
Daily Caller News Foundation ^
| March 12, 2024
| Dana Abizaid
Posted on 03/12/2024 11:05:02 AM PDT by george76
A 9-foot-long alligator in Florida tore the hand off a fisherman Sunday afternoon..
The attack happened when the man was fishing in a golf course pond in Leesburg..
While the guy was on the ground, the gator got the guy in the hand, and the two rolled...
Two 911 calls, including one by Priest’s wife, were released by Lake County Fire Rescue,...
In the first call, the caller says, “There is an alligator attacking a man in my backyard,” while during the second call, the dispatcher asks, “Is this regarding a gator attack?”
The caller reportedly responds, “Yes, he took his hand off … Hand is gone!”
Priest ..the alligator bit the man when the fisherman was reeling in a fish.
“The gator was after [the] fish, and what we don’t know is if the guy was trying to unhook the fish,” ...
Priest told the outlet that minutes before a helicopter arrived to airlift the man to an Orlando hospital, the gator released the fish and fisherman and ran back into the water.
“It’s my understanding that [The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission] can’t dispose of a human part,” Priest ... “It has to be sent to a medical facility, and so, in the odd chance that it could have been re-attached, they drove it to Orlando.”
...
The FWC encourages the public to move away from gators and provide them with space if encountered
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alligator; alligators; crocodile; crocodiles; fishing; florida
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:05:02 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:07:29 AM PDT
by
Hildy
To: george76
Do they call him ‘Lefty’ now?
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:07:35 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: george76
They could try to reattach it, but the operation would cost him an arm and a leg, so what’s the point?
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:08:00 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
To: george76
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:08:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: george76
Florida is starting to seem like Australia - everything can kill ya.
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:08:47 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: george76
Who was that guy in Happy Gilmore?
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:09:20 AM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: Red Badger
Dagnabbit! You beat me by a minute.
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:10:10 AM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: george76
Now they call him 'Lefty.'
9
posted on
03/12/2024 11:10:55 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Jamestown1630
Gators and Hurricanes are why I will never move to Florida.
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:11:25 AM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: EvilCapitalist
And bugs! So many annoying bugs!
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:12:55 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: EvilCapitalist
Who was that guy in Happy Gilmore? That was Carl Weathers, a.k.a. Apollo Creed, who recently passed away.
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:13:09 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Magnum44
And Florida Man - and Woman.
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:14:39 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: EvilCapitalist
Well, there’s always, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and North and South Carolina.................
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:15:09 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Yo-Yo
Wasn’t the characters name Chubbs?
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:16:45 AM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: george76
To: george76
To: george76
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:18:40 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: EvilCapitalist
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:22:36 AM PDT
by
bantam
To: george76
Those guys are evil!
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posted on
03/12/2024 11:23:29 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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