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29 Sep

Man loses arm after surviving alligator attack at Lake

Man loses arm after surviving alligator attack at Lake



Florida Fish and Wildlife reporting 22 incidents involving alligators this yr. That features one over the weekend in Lakewood Ranch.

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40 Comments
  • CallitLikeIseeIt

    You have to be kidding me! Dude is definitely on drugs, hard drugs. Why would you get lost "throwing trash" away? Why would you "see" your truck and jump in the lake? Then, if what you say happened…did the gator drag you to some remote part of the "lake" that you couldn't see your vehicle again? Three days with a ripped off arm, wandering "aimlessly" around when you where at the lake. Who/what/why are the officers/reporters not really asking the real questions. This dude definitely voted for Biden!

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • TLC Forever Young

    Exactly why you should stay away from the water

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Leonard Urban

    I'm finally beginning to understand why Alligators were once hunted to near extinction. Maybe I had too much college when I was young…

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Graycee

    You need to buy a lottery ticket!!!

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • MR GALLAGHER

    If you haven't already.
    Start buying lotto tickets.

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • J. B.

    Superman. ????????

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Jay Kafcas

    So he was working fixing sprinklers then drove to a gnarly unswimable lake, just randomly swimming with a gator.. FOR WHAT?
    He ain’t a hero, he’s an IDIOT and blessed he isn’t spread out in shards around that lake.
    Florida man that!!
    -No thanks!

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Travis k

    Let me guess. Climate change is to blame for the increase and gator attack

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Raymond Driggers

    Yeah florida man shouldn’t have been feeding the gators, wonder if Florida man has weed growing out in the swamp, the gator and I both smell some thing fishy about his story

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Joe Slow

    3 days dripping blood moving around trying to find civilization with arm torn off he's freaking tough for real

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Larry White

    So you decided to swim!!!

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • David

    I had a similar experience. I got attacked by a manatee in Lake Alligator.

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • thug nation 420

    man how he end up in that situation swimming

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • rex real

    They have to eat too ????

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Dan the Meatman

    Meth is an extremely bad drug !!!!!!!!!????

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • DoggieWalkinWords

    ( 00:42 ) What do ya CALL a GUY who got LOST in the WOODS, and wanted to INTRODUCE HIMSELF to an ALLIGATOR? 'ERIC'? NO! 'LEFTY'! It's NOT the PEOPLE's FAULT who GET ATTACKED! Ummmm… let's see… HOW MANY PEOPLE in NEVADA get ATTACKED by GATORS? None! There are NO SWAMPS, and NOBODY DUMPIN' TRASH/FOOD in THEM! (02:25 ) "He will be getting a PROSTHETIC ARM… so he CAN WAVE at the COMMENTATORS and the AUDIENCE NEXT TIME!" The COMMENT from the GATOR? "Mighty TASTY!"

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Christopher Culler

    Something does not add up with his story…..
    Sounds like he got paid and went there to get high and got lost in the woods. He wasn't thinking straight so he jumped in the water and got attacked.

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • FirmGoodRule

    ????

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • JohnBlazinni

    Feel really bad about this dude…but YOU DAF man!? Swimming across a lake?

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Bird bath'd

    Eric, you're a warrior, dude, for being so brave. I was ignorant and didn't realize feeding gators was not a wise choice so I would feed this Gator who would swim next to my wifi spot where I would sit and use the wifi. Well– long story short, one night about an hour after feeding it, I very stupidly turned my attention toward my phone and the next thing I know I hear quick scampering in the grass and as I peak over the little concrete stem wall separating the stream from the sidewalk, I see the Gator lunging at me with everything he had! I screamed real loud and it spooked him enough to perform a lighting flash, 180° jump in mid air right back in the stream where he boldly floated around for the next few hours, nose and eyes dipping up and down every few minutes. Needless to say and gratefully with every limb still intact, I learned my lesson and never hung out in that spot again, nor will I ever feed a Gator again! Don't know how I would've reacted if he snagged my arm but I hope to think it would've been as alert and relentless as you did! God bless you bro– Jesus was with you on that day. Spend the rest of your life thanking Him for it!

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • breadandcircus1

    Heroic man, so amazing

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Wickedsin

    More likely this guy got lost smoking meth!

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • The Yiddler Yeeter

    He looks like he’s thriving

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • P O

    This whole lost in the woods for 3 days is confusing to me. He got lost before the attack, then saw his truck and decided to swim, got attacked and THEN was lost for 3 days? He just said he’d seen his truck, sooooo. Huh? I mean, first of all, that’s a lot of getting lost. Second, no details about how someone who gets lost easily and swims in a huge late at dusk, manages to survive a massive wound like that roaming around in the woods. For 3 days. Wouldn’t you bleed out? I don’t get it

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • proven patriot

    Swimming in gator infested waters at night, makes this dude a bonified idiot ????

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • uncle tom

    He was high on meth that's how he got lost in the woods

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Martín Alcala

    M.o.r.o.n

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • KIRK'S Corner.

    Kimberly Queefon

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • MrMustangMan

    bro.!!!!!! don't pet the ????????????

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • J Martin

    ps very brave he can drive with one arm but I am glad he is getting a prosthetic one . Very brave

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • J Martin

    only time get drugged when you take drugs , it is dragged , the way they speak in this country is sickening all the time

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Jack Russo21

    Let me just go to this lake which I already know full of hundred alligators and take a dunk and see what happens

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • IRISH AMERICAN

    Well I'll just swim over.
    Well I won't do that again.

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Apeck

    Also start letting the people hunt the alligators more there’s an overpopulation of alligators because the government won’t let you cull and hunt them

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Rush In Botz

    Something Fishy about this guy

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Firefox

    Florida Gators or Sharks , Amazing he came back alive ???????? ????☀️
    Sure hate this happen to the man.

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Boon

    …And swimming in the water in alligator infested water especially at sundown.
    Glad he made it alive. It's a miracle he survived the attack and an even bigger miracle with that type of injury.

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • RODD XXL

    YOU DECIDED TO SWIM ACROSS.

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Weezy

    A true Florida man, lost the battle but won the war

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm
  • Steven Atwell

    Bro, you are the most inspiring person I have ever laid eyes on. A straight fighter. I love you man, I wish you the best in your recovery!!

    September 29, 2022 at 4:59 pm