Man Bitten By Alligator After Trying To Lasso It

WFTV ^ | 8/30/04

[harrycarey]

Man Bitten By Alligator After Trying To Lasso It

POSTED: 6:44 am EDT August 30, 2004

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An Orange County man is recovering from injuries after learning a painful lesson about alligators.

Dan Hornock tried to catch a gator in his backyard on Sunday. He lives off Lake Live Oak Drive in the Avalon Park development.

He went after the five-footer, but things didn't go well.

"So I tried to lasso it. I guess you could say, it didn't work," he explains.

"Do not try to remove an alligator yourself. It is absolutely 100 percent avoidable," says Kat Kelley, Florida Fish and Wildlife.

The gator took a bite out of Hornock’s hand, but he will be okay.

A trapper later caught the gator.

[Brilliant]

Another one of John Kerry's hokey Florida campaign stunts goes wrong.

[eno_]

I was wondering what psycho ward the one on the left wandered out of. I mean, if they can't get her to comb her hair for a posed picture...

[Richard Kimball]

Try a 12 gauge.

[asgardshill]

Maybe with flechette or dove and quail load. 00 is overkill and pretty much wipes out the eave of the house.

[TX Bluebonnet]

What's that stain on Kerry's shirt? Is this photoshopped?

[stompk]

ahh. the whole forum is in a good mood today.
soo much fun to be had :-)

[Maceman]

Some people have watched way too much TV.

More like he hasn't watched enough.

Anyone who watches Animal Planet knows that you need at least two guys to lasso a crocodilian. They each pull the animal's head in a different direction to immobilize it.

Then you need at least one more guy (depending on the size of the anumal) to sit on the critter, catch its closed jaws and bind them shut. You might also want to blindfold it at that point.

Believe me, I didn't learn all that from wrassling gators myself.

[asgardshill]

Give me SOME credit - I don't use deer slugs either. Many wasps - one deer slug equals a lot of p*ssed-off little stingers you miss.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Think about that idiot on the Crocodile Hunter.

[blackdog]

"And now my faithful assistant Jim will restrain the (insert anything that can kill you in two bites or one kick here) for me to get out of my jeep" - Marlin Perkins, Mutual of Ohaha's "Wild Kingdom"

That segment of the show was the funniest bit of television in the 60's.

[donozark]

The Anaconda fight was a classic as well...Marlin on shoreline..."Hold him Jim! Hold him!"

[blackdog]

And wardrobe wouldn't even clean Jim up. A bruised, bloodied, battered, muddy mess would be Jim. Out would step Marlin Perkins for his cameo.

Absolutely great comedy by accident television.

[Cobra64]

The thought of those four is frightening. Kerry's wife is uglier than her husband. And Edwards' wife looks like a wrestler.

[China Clipper]

What's that stain on Kerry's shirt? Is this photoshopped?

Ketchup?

[UltraKonservativen]

I don't think a 12 guage is enough for a bad boy like this one. From a KTBS helicopter over Cross Lake near Shreveport, LA.

[Shaun_MD]

All your Gator handbags are belong to us.

[dennisw]

Is that dog in the gator's jaws? Thanks.

[asgardshill]

Yippie Ki OUCH!

[asgardshill]

Looks like a whitetail deer to me. That's some big gator.

[dennisw]

Looks like a whitetail deer to me. That's some big gator......


Amazing and you must be right. The huge alligators are in the wild where they can go deer hunting. We have gator incidents here but the alligators are typically 7 feet at the most and animal caught is small dog. It can happen but very rarely a small child.