[at-l] Gator Attack (OT)

[RoksnRoots at aol.com (RoksnRoots@aol.com)]

In a message dated 7/21/04 8:34:00 PM, RoksnRoots@aol.com writes:


> a 54 year-old woman doing some lawn work was
> grabbed from behind by a 12 foot alligator a mile from here.
> 

            She ended up losing half her forearm. I was on the porch 
yesterday reading the paper when I heard the police flying by at very high speed. I 
thought to myself something must be going on. The pond is 2/3rd's of a mile from 
me. 

         It could possibly be the same woman landscaper who does our next 
door neighbor's lawn. It probably is because not many women landscape. They think 
they got her lower areas and legs fixed enough to allow her to walk again. 
That alligator is about right for the one I nearly walked into this winter, but 
the island is full of them, and I'm pretty good a sight measuring and mine was 
about 11 feet. 

        The paper said the bite power of a 12 foot alligator is in the 2300 
ppsi range. A lion is around 640...