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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..."

Sounds quite likely :-)

The kid will keep the full truth of what happened as a secret until the day he dies, I'm sure; and the gator certainly won't tell. :-)

"...and the gator certainly won't tell..."

are you kidding, the other gators would let him hear the end of it.. "Dude, you fell for the thumb to the eye? BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!" : )

Actually this is my husband and your judgment is quite off. He was out there doing something stupid but not something as stupid as tempting a gator. His foot happened to be in the water making movement and the alligator thought it was a fish. People often visit this area feeding the gators fish. Your comments are wrong and I bet if you were in his shoes you would be dead. As for others saying kill the gator with a gun, how many 16 year olds carry a gun with out being a delequent? And those saying he is a yankee, he lived 45 minutes away from the area. Try not to waste anymore of your time judging young children, when one time too I am sure your were not perfect and rebeled. (I am sure our son will not listen to us 100% of the time) He is now a wonderful father and buisness owner, at 21. I am sure half you cant say this for yourself.

And for the publisher it is Cory not with an ‘e’. Also the gator was 11 feet.

thank you.