OK, so I'm on the record of hating gators and being afraid of them, snakes, hurricanes, sink holes, ladies with blue hair, children, ...wait, I'm off topic.
I don't understand why stories like this are reported semi-humorously. I refer to the tag line where the reporter is trying to be funny. This man was moments from death. And he still faces difficult and I suspect painful rehabilitation. And at his age it will go slowly.
Water features on golf course are pretty, but maybe, if we aren't going to control the gator population, we should go easy on them.
Oh, just one more thing...it's the journalist in me, sorry. The report said 9 feet long and 190 pounds. Unless the guys on Swamp People have been lying to me, a 9 foot gator would be more in the 800 pound range, clearly enough to drag a grown man down and kill him.
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