OK, you go out for a jog and a 10-foot reptile eats you

[lady cop]

reasons to come to the sunshine state ~~~shark attacks, giant non-indigenous pythons who eat your dog , hurricanes, prehistoric reptiles who eat YOU, and the worst of all...a highway robber mouse! ....this poor woman was attacked on land and rendered limb from limb! what horror! i know we humans have encroached on their habitats, but i am still horrified at this young woman's death.-----Medical Examiner: Woman Died From Alligator Attack

POSTED: 2:58 pm EDT May 11, 2006

SUNRISE, Fla. -- An alligator apparently killed a woman on land and then dragged her body into a canal, authorities said Thursday.

The dismembered body of Yovy Suarez Jimenez, 28, of Davie, was found Wednesday by construction workers. She didn't return from a jog the previous night.

"It is my professional opinion that the alligator attacked the woman while she was on land," said Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County's medical examiner. "She died of traumatic injuries sustained by an alligator attack, a mixture of blood loss and shock, and in my opinion died very fast."

Perper ruled out drowning because little water was found in her stomach and lungs, according to on story on The Miami Herald's Web site.

Trappers will try to catch and kill the animal, believed to be eight to 10-feet long, and the contents of its stomach will be examined, Pino said.

Perper said the alligator appeared to have crawled on to land and killed Jimenez and then dragged her body into the water.

He said alligators generally pull their prey into the water.

"When they are hungry they can be very very aggressive and attack for food purposes," he said.

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by lady cop

Trappers will try to catch and kill the animal, believed to be eight to 10-feet long, and the contents of its stomach will be examined, Pino said.

Poor woman. How close to that canal was she jogging, I wonder.

[Dingfod]

Just a few weeks ago, a 74 year old Florida woman was attacked and dragged into a canal by an alligator fought back and escaped.

That is exactly what The Miami Herald advises in this article.

And, that is what this man did a couple years ago.

[Legs]

This kinda stuff never goes on up here.

[Dingfod]

We don't have much of a problem with it in this part of Oklahoma. Down around Broken Bow is a different matter.

[Puck]

You learn about 'gators and to respect them. We used to swim in a beautiful lake that was spring fed and crystal clear, and had 'gators. As long as they have a good food source and aren't nesting, you can just run them off with lots of noise and they will usually stay away while you are there. Yes, there's a chance of problems, but then, a coconut could fall on your head and kill you, too.

And you wouldn't want to jog along an area that has 'gators after dark. Likely, she didn't see the 'gator untill she scared the shit out of it running up on it, and it reacted as 'gators do. Chomp.

And Florida doesn't have snow. But they do have warm winters. And green all year. And white sand beaches and palm trees. And noisey parrots. And salt water. Lovely soothing salt water. And Boat Drinks. Dont' forget the Boat Drinks.

[BDS]

Here in Oregon, cougars eat about a thousand people a year.

At least that's what the hunting lobbies predicted when we passed a ban on hunting cougars with dogs a few years back. I'm not 100% sure it's actually occurred, but I doubt the hunting lobbyists would lie about such a thing.

[ms_ann_thrope]

Looks like they found the gator who got her: Arms Found Inside Fla. Alligator's Belly

[Legs]

[lady cop]

gator caughtThe 400-pound alligator thought to have killed a 28-year-old woman was captured Saturday and killed.
The alligator that killed a jogger in Sunrise was blind in one eye and likely had trouble competing for food, said the trapper who captured the 400-pound creature Saturday.

The nine-foot, six-inch-long gator was caught, baited by a pig's lung, about two blocks west of the spot where Yovy Suarez Jimenez's dismembered body was found Wednesday.

It was killed, its stomach split open. Inside: two human arms.

''Thank God, it was the one,'' said trapper Kevin Garvey, 43, of Pompano Beach.

As the hired gun to trap alligators in Broward County, Garvey was ridden with guilt and anxiety over Suarez's death. He hadn't slept more than two hours in three days as he searched for her killer.

Suarez, 28, a Florida Atlantic University student from Davie, became the 18th person in Florida since 1948 to die from an alligator attack.

''This has stressed me since Day One,'' Garvey said. ``I'm the only trapper in Broward County, and this happened in my county. This is not something that I wanted counted on my slate.''

Low-lying water and a scarcity of food may have contributed to the attack, he said.

''There are so many alligators in the Everglades; they are competing for food,'' Garvey said.

The male killer gator's handicap -- it was blind in the left eye, possibly from a BB gun shot -- would have made hunting even more difficult.

Examiners on Saturday also found a garbage bag and turtle shell in its stomach.

TWO OTHERS CAUGHT

Garvey had trapped two other alligators from the barren water-conservation area along State Road 84, just south of Markham Park, since Suarez's death. But their stomachs revealed no human remains.

When he went to check his bait at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Garvey found the gator hooked on it.

Garvey roped it around the neck and, with the help of two Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers and two others, dragged it up the eight-foot rock and soil embankment.

It took them half an hour.

Once on land, 180-pound Garvey straddled the squirming back of the 400-pound gator and taped its mouth shut with electrical tape.

Dani Moschella of the wildlife commission said more testing will be done on the alligator to prove it is the killer. Its bite will be compared to Suarez's injuries.

DRAGGED INTO WATER

Suarez's attacker severed her arms and bit her leg and back. Investigators think she was attacked on land, then dragged into the water. Suarez died of trauma, blood loss and shock.

A passerby told Sunrise police a woman of a similar description was seen near the water's edge just hours before the body was found. Her mother told police that she last spoke to her daughter on the phone Tuesday night. Suarez told her mother she was sitting under a bridge by the canal.

For 11 years, five-foot-eight Garvey has been under contract with the wildlife commission to keep marshes, rest stops, backyards, and canals safe from alligator attacks.

That means he can capture any alligator that measures longer than four feet. Under different circumstances, Garvey would get about $24 per foot at a processing plant for an eight- to nine-foot gator.

The one thought to have killed Suarez was dissected for testing, and its remains were burned.

Garvey's left leg had 46 stitches in it after an alligator bit him while shooting a documentary on South Beach. A few years ago, another gator nabbed him on the thumb.

But nothing is like the pain he's felt since Suarez's death.

Garvey said he spent the rest of Saturday, trying to ``get my mind straight.''

''I'm gatored out at this point,'' Garvey said.

FATAL ATTACKS RARE

Moschella said alligator attacks, especially fatal ones, are rare. But people should keep their distance.

''Keep pets and small children away from the water,'' Moschella said. ``Any waterway in Florida can contain alligators.''

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by lady cop

...
Garvey roped it around the neck and, with the help of two Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers and two others, dragged it up the eight-foot rock and soil embankment.

It took them half an hour.

Once on land, 180-pound Garvey straddled the squirming back of the 400-pound gator and taped its mouth shut with electrical tape.

There was video of the capture on the news. A crew of guys pulling on the rope pulled it close enough to shore for a F&W guy to hit it in the head with a bangstick, then they dragged it up on the canal embankment with it's mouth gaping wide open, no tape that I saw. The half hour part, I agree was probably true, it was a big fellow. Funny, after the bangstick it didn't resist at all.

[Adam]

Huh. So they just trapped and...um...opened...alligators until they found the one with arms in it?

I was under the impression that gators were endangered, but I'm apparently almost 20 years behind the times, because they were delisted in 1987, acccording to the US Fish & Wildlife Service.

[lady cop]

there are approx. 1 million alligators in florida. even though killing them is regulated, there are exceptions to the rule...all nuisance 'gators of 8 feet or more are removed by fish and game, or killed. nuisance 'gators are those in very populated areas who are eating the local poodles. people endanger alligators by feeding them. then they associate people with food. we haven't had rain for at least two months. the everglades are dry, and they are coming into canals where people live. i don't believe in the random killing of any animal, but this young woman should not have had to die.

[Adam]

Well, of course, she shouldn't have had to die. I was just sort of surprised at the 'kill 'em all until we find the right one' approach to locating the offending gator, because I was under the incorrect impression, until I googled it, the American gators were still an endangered species. That's what I get for living in a landlocked Midwestern hellhole...I don't know shit about gators.

[lady cop]

i think they killed one, maybe two before they found the right one. i don't really care. this was such an anomaly, he went after her on land, never heard of before. turns out he was impaired, blind in one eye. one damn alligator, or ten, are not worth one human life. ...but i will say this---it's alright with me that they eat golfers clad in lime-green pants and pink madras shirts and sandals with black socks.

[Adam]

What if the pants are day-glo orange instead of lime green? Cause that would be fine with me too...

[lady cop]

Originally Posted by Adam

What if the pants are day-glo orange instead of lime green? Cause that would be fine with me too...

that would be considered the early bird special down here! and hey, happy birthday!

[RandomThoughts]

Originally Posted by lady cop

that would be considered the early bird special down here! and hey, happy birthday!

I remember reading and seeing a picture of that golfer, wasn't his name Bob? The alligator lived on a golf course, he was an old gator that never bothered anyone, until he ate BOB.....(or whatever his name was)

[Adam]

Originally Posted by lady cop

that would be considered the early bird special down here! and hey, happy birthday!

Hey, thanks!

[RandomThoughts]

Happy Birthday Adam
Here's a little something for your amusement

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/cont....aspx?cid=1796

[lady cop]

another one----SALT SPRINGS, Fla. -- An alligator fatally attacked a 23-year-old woman Sunday near Lake George, authorities said.

The woman had been staying at a secluded cabin near a springhead that feeds into the lake, said Marion County Fire-Rescue Capt. Joe Amigliore.

"The people she was staying with came around and found her inside the gator's mouth," Amigliore said. "They jumped into the water and somehow pulled her out of the gator's mouth."

The woman, whose name was not released, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her stepfather, who had tried to help her, was treated on the scene for a hand injury, said Amigliore.

The attack occurred near lakeside recreation 7 miles south of Salt Springs, Amigliore said.

Authorities were searching for the alligator Sunday night.

[Dingfod]

Another woman killed by alligator bites... maybe.

[lady cop]

my sweetheart and i have a few favorite fishing spots, and although never before included in our gear, i am now going to take a 12-gauge shotgun with us!

[Legs]

Okay, enough of these stories.

Alligator Chili

Alligator Jambalaya

Sweet & Sour Alligator

[ms_ann_thrope]

Gator meat is good eatin!