11 Foot Gator Drags Man Into Pond & Kills Him in South Carolina

[Unkotare]

Well, they claim they have had a problem with gators hanging around.
So I don't understand why the property owners didn't shut it down and have the gators removed?
Or at the very least, have a gator handler on hand at all times to keep this from happening.

 

[B. Kidd]

Don't the Fed's protect gators and other swamp critters??

Moral to this story: Thanks to the Feds, I was prey!!

 

[Dekster]

That's insane. I can't even imagine what was going through his mind and he probably had his back turned or else a few golf swings to the eyes of the alligator might have made a difference.

He wasn't playing golf. He was hooking up a pump to use pond water to irrigate with. That is what I was told at least. The third (or fourth) hand version I heard from someone who just came back from the beach who met the spouse of one of the first responders on that call is slightly different than the reporting. Their version was his dog went apeshit and alerted the neighbors who went down and found a leg with a tennis shoe and nothing else. The first responders couldn't get the thing trapped to go in the water to recover the remains so their "humane euthanization" as it was reported was to shoot the thing as it swam around the pond. When they pulled the gator out, the rest of the man was head first in its mouth. He apparently had been leaning over the water hooking up the pump and the gator suddenly lunged out of the water and pulled him in head first (sans the leg that got left behind) and took him under and drowned him and as he was bleeding out.

 

[Captain Caveman]

He wasn't playing golf. He was hooking up a pump to use pond water to irrigate with. That is what I was told at least. The third (or fourth) hand version I heard from someone who just came back from the beach who met the spouse of one of the first responders on that call is slightly different than the reporting. Their version was his dog went apeshit and alerted the neighbors who went down and found a leg with a tennis shoe and nothing else. The first responders couldn't get the thing trapped to go in the water to recover the remains so their "humane euthanization" as it was reported was to shoot the thing as it swam around the pond. When they pulled the gator out, the rest of the man was head first in its mouth. He apparently had been leaning over the water hooking up the pump and the gator suddenly lunged out of the water and pulled him in head first (sans the leg that got left behind) and took him under and drowned him and as he was bleeding out.

Not a nice way to go.

 

[Dekster]

Not a nice way to go.

Not sure there is ever a nice way to go if alligator is part of the story. He probably didn't even know WTF was happening.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Not sure there is ever a nice way to go if alligator is part of the story. He probably didn't even know WTF was happening.

I hope the pump worked, otherwise, all lost in vain.

 

[Dekster]

I hope the pump worked, otherwise, all lost in vain.

Definitely want the yard looking extra green when the hearse is doing the drive-by (though I think that is more a yankee tradition)