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**CAPiTUL** · 06-26-2007, 04:08 PM

Ironic that this comes shortly after my post about Gators on the course!!!!!!!

VENICE, Florida (AP) -- A man who lost his ball in a golf course pond nearly lost a limb when a nearly 11-foot alligator latched on to his arm and pulled him in the water, authorities said.

Bruce Burger, 50, was trying to retrieve his ball Monday from a pond on the sixth hole at the Lake Venice Golf Club.

The alligator latched on to Burger's right forearm and pulled him in the pond, said Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Burger used his left arm to beat the reptile until it freed him.

"I saw him reach down to get his ball and he yelled" for help, said Janet Pallo, who was playing the fifth hole and ran over to drive the man to the clubhouse.

Burger, from Lenoir City, Tennessee, was taken to a hospital but was not seriously injured, Morse said Tuesday.

It took seven Fish and Wildlife officers an hour to trap the one-eyed alligator, which measured 10 feet, 11 inches, Morse said.

The pond at the sixth hole has a "Beware of Alligator" sign.

"Unfortunately, that's part of Florida," course general manager Rod Parry said. "There's wildlife in these ponds."

witeshark · 06-26-2007, 04:18 PM

I never go near a pond or lake without checking for gators

**madagi** · 06-26-2007, 04:50 PM

Damn, first the 62 year old fart kicking a bobcats ass and now a 50 year old beating the shit outta an alligator. What's next? A 75 year old who disembowels a grizzly bear for looking at him the wrong way?

I've played some courses in SC and alligators on the course is no joke... but 11 feet? That was a biggin!

craig · 06-27-2007, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by madagi

Damn, first the 62 year old fart kicking a bobcats ass and now a 50 year old beating the shit outta an alligator. What's next?

uhh... well.. have you heard the story about the guy in the wheel chair getting stuck on the front of a semi while going down the highway at 70?

**madagi** · 06-27-2007, 05:44 AM

Yeah I heard that 911 clip. That's crazy too. He's lucky he didn't get thrown from the chair when the semi hit him. Can you imagine driving down the road and seeing that?

**c1apton** · 06-27-2007, 07:27 AM

Welcome to Florida - where golf is not a sport but an adventure.