Man bitten by alligator after mistaking it for dog on leash

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A Florida man was bitten by an alligator he thought was a dog while outside of a motel Tuesday morning, reports say.

The man was walking outside at Warm Mineral Springs Motel in North Port when he saw a dark figure moving along the bushes, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office told WFLA.

He thought it was a dog on a long leash and didn't move out the way, then the alligator bit his leg and ripped out a piece of his muscle tissue.

According to WWSB, the man found a deputy responding to a nearby call who called emergency personnel to take the man to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. .........(more)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/09/florida-man-alligator-bite/7565125001/

[LakeArenal]

1. Alligators busy in Florida.

[COL Mustard]

2. Just another reason not to live there

1. DeSatan
2. Flori-duh Man
3. Alligators

[LakeArenal]

3. My parents retired there. We hated it.

After many years they moved back to Wisconsin. severe winters and all.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I hated Tampa and moved back..

NY had fewer coral snakes, oleanders, alligators, mosquitoes, and native Tampons to deal with.

[Chainfire]

7. The alligators aren't so bad.

I have lived here for 70 years. I have spent a lot of time on the water I have seen a gazillion alligators. (by count) I never mistook an alligator for a dog, even in the days that I was still drinking. Alligators and I have an understanding, I respect them and they don't bother me. A lot of people who are bitten by gators just don't understand that the gator does not want to be petted and he doesn't want to play. Gators have two tricks; they eat and they breed. The man should be happy that the gator wasn't in the breeding mode.


However, DeSatan is a different story; he is much more dangerous and there is nothing there to respect.

[pamdb]

5. Florida and Texas

I call them the armpit states. Couldn't PAY me to live in either one.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Floriduh Man, Texass.