Man's Arm Amputated After Gator Attack

Longtime WLTReport readers know I am somewhat obsessed by alligators.

In an “I think they’re terrifying” way.

I don’t know how you Florida people do it.

How do you live with these lizard dinosaurs crawling around in every pond and body of water in your state?

Here’s the latest….

Florida man’s arm amputated after 10-foot alligator attacks outside bar near pond https://t.co/43bfVBtCfx

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 23, 2023

Watch this for more:

TRAGIC: Man's arm AMPUTATED after Gator bites it off!
👇 pic.twitter.com/pfBna2so9U

— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) May 24, 2023

From Fox News:

A 10-foot alligator attacked a Florida man near a pond outside a bar over the weekend, biting the man’s arm so severely that doctors were forced to amputate the limb, officials said.

The encounter unfolded early Sunday morning behind Banditos Bar in Port Charlotte, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.

The 23-year-old man was taken by helicopter to Gulf Coast Hospital in Fort Myers, where his arm was amputated, said Todd Dunn, a spokesman for Charlotte County Fire and EMS.

The victim, later identified as Jordan Rivera, spoke to WBBH-TV from his hospital bed on Monday, telling the station that despite losing an arm, he was happy to be alive.

“I didn’t lose my life, I lost an arm, it’s not the end of the world, you know,” Rivera said.

Rivera said that he had little memory of what happened, telling the station that he recalled the bathroom lines were long, and he had gone outside to relieve himself when he suddenly fell.

“I ended up in the water,” he said. “And that’s literally the last thing I remember.”

Another bar patron, Manny Hidalgo, told the Daily Sun that he heard the man screaming from the pond area and went outside looking for him in the darkness.

“He was yelling and swimming toward the shoreline,” Hidalgo said. “I ran and dragged him up onto the sand. I was scared to get close to the water because it was dark out.”

Rivera was pulled to safety, but the alligator had torn a chunk out of his right arm. Doctors amputated his arm just above the elbow.

I feel so bad for this man!

Want to know what’s even worse?

This:

Horrific Alligator Attack On 85-Year Old Woman Caught On Camera

WARNING: readers may find this very distressing.

This is a tragic and horrific story.

I love the FREEDOM of Florida, but I’m not sure I would want to live there.

I’m both fascinated and terrified of all the alligators living in that state.

Every pool of water, no matter how small or shallow it may look, is very likely to house an alligator.

How do you people live around these things?

Its terrifying!

Sadly, one woman paid the ultimate price walking her small dog right along the shoreline.

Why???

Ugh, it just makes me sick.

This poor 85-year old woman taking her small dog out for a walk never suspecting it would be her final day.

And what a tragic and horrifying way to go.

I feel so bad for her and her family.

It was all captured on video:

Video captured the moment a Senior Citizen, 85 year old Gloria Serge was trying to protect her dog. She ended up being attacked herself by an alligator and killed near her home in Florida. #AlligatorAttackVideo pic.twitter.com/7vDyDNWvxE

— Dominic Carter (@DominicTV) February 23, 2023

From Fox News, the alligator is said to have weighed 600 to 700 pounds!

A video has emerged showing the moments before a 85-year-old Florida woman was fatally attacked by an alligator while walking her dog in a retirement community.

Gloria Serge was by a retention pond behind her house in Fort Pierce, Florida, on Monday when the 10-foot-long alligator crawled up from the water and first tried to attack her dog.

The surveillance footage shows the reptile swimming in a direct path toward Serge’s dog before it rises out of the water and scampers up the embankment in pursuit of the animal.

The elderly woman was taken to the ground with the alligator then biting her feet, and then she was dragged into the water. While the woman’s body was recovered from the retention pond, the dog survived.

“Please hurry!… It’s a huge gator. It’s huge, I don’t have anything to give to her,” a neighbor is heard saying in a frantic 911 call released by Fort Pierce Police.

“It’s too late. Oh, my God,” the woman is later heard saying.

“Did the gator pull her under?” the dispatcher asks.

“Yes,” the neighbor screams.

“Alright, you don’t see any of her body, nothing sticking out?” the dispatcher says.

“Nothing, she’s gone,” the woman replies.

The alligator, which is reported to weigh between 600 and 700 pounds, was trapped and killed by a nuisance gator trapper.

And now the video.

VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Watch here:

Tragic alligator attack caught on camera.
🚨 WARNING: viewer discretion advised. pic.twitter.com/0Pkns6q9Rn

— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) February 24, 2023

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