Florida man falls off bike, gets attacked by alligator
A man was flown to a hospital with serious injuries Monday after he was attacked by an alligator that bit him at a Stuart, Florida park authorities said. The Martin County Sheriff's Office said the victim fell off his bicycle at Halpatiokee Regional Park and into the water, where he was attacked by the gator.
Deputies said the man was seriously injured in the attack. "He had a lot of marks all over his leg, but mainly in the upper thigh," witness Charlie Shannon said. Shannon was walking his dog Monday when he came upon a biker in distress in a body of water. "He was hanging on roots like five feet below," Shannon said. "It was hard to get him out." Shannon used his dog leash as a makeshift tourniquet as he and others lifted the man out.
Scott Lorraine with the Airborne Mountain Bike Club also came upon the scene. He said the victim is an accomplished rider who lost a tire going around a curve, landing right on top of the gator. "But he slid out and the water is literally a couple of feet away and he went right into the water, and just as bad luck would be, the gator was right there," Lorraine said.
A trapper who came to the scene and captured the reptile said the female gator was 8 feet long and will be relocated. "She was sitting 10 feet off the bank when I showed up," trapper John Davidson said. "That leads me to believe that she was a female and sitting on a nest somewhere close. So we'll attempt to rescue the babies if we can."
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This is where a man who was attacked by an alligator ended up in the water
after he fell off his bicycle at Halpatiokee Regional Park in Stuart.
Courtesy of Charlie Shannon
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