Post by Concrete Kid on Jul 8, 2006 22:27:44 GMT -5
Elderly woman fights off attacking alligator
Associated Press
Posted: May 11, 2006
FORT MYERS, Fla. — An elderly woman, who was bitten by an alligator while working in her backyard, beat back the reptile with a garden hose.
Constance Gittles, 74, of south Punta Gorda was watering plants this week when a nearly 6-foot-long alligator bit her leg just above the ankle.
“I just whacked him right in the snout with the nozzle,” she said. “After that, he took off.”
Gittles received three puncture wounds and some smaller scrapes and abrasions from her confrontation with the alligator.
A trapper working with wildlife officials later caught the animal in a nearby pond. It will be killed and the hide and meat sold.
NOTE: This is a rule now in Florida to get rid of the problem gators.
Associated Press
Posted: May 11, 2006
FORT MYERS, Fla. — An elderly woman, who was bitten by an alligator while working in her backyard, beat back the reptile with a garden hose.
Constance Gittles, 74, of south Punta Gorda was watering plants this week when a nearly 6-foot-long alligator bit her leg just above the ankle.
“I just whacked him right in the snout with the nozzle,” she said. “After that, he took off.”
Gittles received three puncture wounds and some smaller scrapes and abrasions from her confrontation with the alligator.
A trapper working with wildlife officials later caught the animal in a nearby pond. It will be killed and the hide and meat sold.
NOTE: This is a rule now in Florida to get rid of the problem gators.
