I read this article and all I can say is WOW!
http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/10195490/77-year-old-golfer-loses-arm-in-alligator-attack (http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/10195490/77-year-old-golfer-loses-arm-in-alligator-attack)
Brad
I saw that....crazy. I had a pet alligator many years ago before you couldn't. I turned him to the wild.
Sounds like a freak mishap. Must have ambushed him from water. I play golf all the time here in Florida and there are numerous courses that have or have had gators. As a general rule one must take a drop away from the danger without any penality. Darned if I would try to retrieve a ball that way lying close to a gator except with a very long ball retriever.
Wow, one would never think that a morning of golf would turn out that way. I sure hoe they were able to put the man's arm back on.
HR
Wow...I have played in Florida a few times with the crocs. If my ball was anywhere that was questionable I left it.
SIA
You all do know that a gator for the first one hundred yards is faster then the fastest quarter mile horse. This is a fact. You cannot out run one. Plus they can go over a 4 foot high chain link fence so quick it looks like a hot knife through warm butter.
Sorry about the man's arm. Just remember if you come to Florida the signs say DON'T FEED THE GATORS! Gators are afraid of man until man feeds gator.
Quote from: Oldman on October 10, 2009, 06:26:54 PM
Gators are afraid of man until man feeds gator.
I agree but I would not think it was tha man's intention to be his arm for the gator's lunch.
HR
We were at Myrtle Beach golfing a few years ago, I never even gave it a thought about gators there, I figured they were all in Florida. I'm standing on a bunch of broken shells at the edge of a pond trying to get my ball, only about a foot into the water, when someone yelled there may be a gator in there. I grabbed my ball thinking they were joking. Walked up to the drop area and he came over and said there were gators in most of the ponds there. Well we seen about three of them by time that round was done. Needless to say, if i hit a ball even near the water, it stayed there. ;D
Back in the early 80s in Cocoa FL, at Winn Dixie across from the ABC liquor stor. A woman ever so peacefully goes to her car and loads up her groceries. As she was getting in her car, she drops her keys on the tarmac. While in the driver's seat, she leans outwards to pick up the keys. Low and behold there was a 16 footer alligator under her car. She panics, shuts her car door and starts honking the horn. A long time later, te game wardens decide to lift her ar up to catch the gator. A cople of hours later the ordeal was over.
The moral of the story, Cocoa wa miles and mles away from the nearest water souse; The Indian River.
A true story I witnessed.
HR
We have plenty of gators here in my area. Most of the water here is brackish. Many gators have been spotted about a half mile off shore in the Gulf. Rivers are not a required element. They can survive in areas that only have small ponds.