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November 13, 2007
Keep out of the water
I'm so glad I don't live in Florida. Suppose I break into a car, then flee when the cops catch up to me. Naturally, the best way to get away is to jump into the nearest pond. If it's an Illinois pond, I probably get tired out after awhile and either drown or get fished out by the cops. But if I'm in Florida, chances are an alligator eats me:
A man who allegedly was fleeing police was attacked and killed by an alligator in a pond, Local 10 reported..
Miccosukee police, assisted by Sweetwater canine units, responded to a call on the Miccosukee Indian Reservation about vehicles being broken into.
Local 10's Todd Tongen said police captured one man, but another fled on foot and dove into a retention pond. Signs warned of the danger of live alligators in the pond behind the casino and hotel.
Eyewitnesses said they were shouting to the man to swim back to shore. When the man finally spotted the alligator, eyewitnesses said he screamed but then disappeared under the water.
The alligator and another smaller one were later trapped and brought to All American Gator in Pembroke Park.
Local 10 learned the larger alligator was well known on the reservation and employees had nicknamed it Poncho.
If an alligator either digests or kills a person it's a state law through Florida Fish and Wildlife that it be destroyed, so the alligator will be put in an incinerator or be buried, Tongen reported
entry no. 1008
Posted by oz115 at November 13, 2007 01:05 PM