[Stoat]

I think that I'll try shooting it in the eye first, but you've got to make do with the tools that are at hand in such a situation.

It's nice to know that watching TV occasionally has some benefits.

[BookaT]

Shoot, I learned that from Happy Gilmore!

[stboz]

In this kind of fight, the loser has to provide lunch......

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Wonder if the same method would work on Democrats. Someone please try it and report back ;-P

[zot]

Bump a brave and quick-witted young man.

[Flavius]

yup sharp stick to the eye or this

[Dustbunny]

Very lucky young man !!!!

[hodaka]

I wonder if the Discovery channel also show that the best way to defend yourself against someone breaking into your house is to shot them between the eyes.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I grew up in Central Florida in the 1950's and '60's. We used to swim in lakes with alligators 30 feet away from us. You would see their eyes and nose in the water. They never bothered us and we never had any fear of them. In those days there was an industry in alligator hides and the population stayed down. Gators normally are scavengers and eat dead fish and animals. If the meat isn't rotten enough they bury it in the mud or hide it in a nest until it cures. In the '70's, the human population grew and at the same time they declared gators endangered. Alligators began to multiple. Their sources of food got stretched and they began coming out of the lakes killing dogs and cats. Then they began attacking people.

[Ciexyz]

Glad this story had a happy ending.

[Hand em their arse]

Call me skeptical, but 16 yrs. old, and just before midnight on a saturday night and he's throwing rocks and sticks into a lake???

My take on the evening, is after he and a couple buddies were on the tail end of a case of Bud, they thought "Let's go f**k with that gator and throw some rocks at it..."

[fso301]

I always like people able to maintain presence of mind an emergency. Likewise, I have little regard for those unable to act instinctively in an emergency.

Hopefully, two years from now, this young man will be able to enter the military and serve under the command of a capable successor to our present Commander in Chief.

[Enchante]

Good job, kid!! Add to this the freeper in Canada who just stabbed an attacking black bear to death with his hunting knife and it's been a good week for humans fighting off predatory critters.

[SteveMcKing]

PETA ping.... animal cruelty!

[cyborg]

Note to self...don't go to remote areas after dark throwing things into strange, dark bodies of water.

[Krankor]

Where I grew up they had this ol' swimmin' hole that had alligators and crocodiles and sharks and moray eels and pirhanas and aardvarks. As long as you stayed on your side of the hole, they never bothered you

[the invisib1e hand]

holy smokes -- way to go, kid.

I really had no idea -- 20 years in Florida, by the way -- that alligators were this aggressive. No idea.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"Trappers were trying to capture the alligator Sunday night."

This should be a little easier than the usual alligator hunt after an attack. This one only has one good eye left!

Corey's mom is lucky to have him alive and well this evening. I hope that next Saturday night she has her 16-year-old in the house at midnight.

[thegreatbeast]

Corey Workman was in a remote area of the St. John's River in Volusia County, Fla., just before midnight Saturday, throwing rocks and sticks into the water. Authorities said a 6- to 8-foot-long alligator jumped out of the water, grabbed Workman's left foot and dragged him into the lake.

Methinks one sentence follows the other for a reason.

[D1X1E]

Corey Workman was.......throwing rocks and sticks into the water.

....at the gator. That's the part he didnt tell Mom.

[RouxStir]

I had an alligator jump out of the water chase me once. Thank God it only had 3 legs. I hadn't realized that I had walked between the gator and her nest.