Gone Fishing
 

MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Florida sheriff's deputies jumped into a dark lake and pulled a naked man from the jaws of an alligator early Wednesday, authorities said.
The man lost his left arm and had a broken right arm and major injuries to his left leg, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. He was hospitalized in critical condition.
After several people reported hearing screams for help from central Florida's Lake Parker at about 4 a.m. ET, deputies arrived to find the man in the alligator's grasp, the sheriff said. (Watch sheriff tell the story http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/...icon_video.gif)
Four deputies waded through waist-deep mud, wrestled the man free and pulled him about 40 yards back to shore to a waiting ambulance, Judd said.
"He was totally naked," Judd said of the victim, identified as 45-year-old Adrian Apgar.
"He admitted that he'd been smoking crack cocaine. But still, it's a human life," Judd said at a news conference. "Our deputies don't ask questions, they respond and they save people."
It was unclear whether Apgar had gone swimming or if the creature had snatched him from the bank.
A 12-foot alligator was later plucked from the lake, and wildlife officials said it was believed to be the one that attacked Apgar.
Alligators throughout Florida have been blamed for about 275 attacks on humans, fewer than two dozen of them fatal, since the state began keeping records in 1948.

Should have let the lizard finish its meal!:bgi:

Crack killz. I would have given the gator an award!

Just what the World needed, crack head gators! Wadda buzzkill!

I saw something on national geographic channel about a 12 foot gator that pulled a landscaper into a pond and she died from the wounds. People that knew the women said that it was highly unlikely that she was on the waters edge because she was aware of the dangers, and the police had evidence to conclude that the alligator must have jumped out of the water and grabbed her while she was working on plants about 15 feet away from the water's edge!

I guess a lot of communities in florida have a law that if a gator is over 4 feet, it can be destroyed, this town didn't have that law.

unreal.....
 

you'd have to be a crack head to be sitiing next to a florida
lagoon
naked.....without fear of being attacked by a gator...

and as far as the law.......screw it!

that law is meant to broken repeatedly.:rocketem:

I'm afraid we need a similar law on the cape which allows the killing of any seal over 100 pounds:devil2:

:humpty:

must have been a hell of a buzz.:alien: