It wasn't even a big one, only an 8 footer. There's some 12 footers
live around here, used to be bigger ones back when.
A golfer lost an arm a few years back, trying to get a ball that was in
a pond, or next to it. Beaufort maybe? chompchomp
--FT
On 8/22/18 10:01 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
A woman died Monday morning in a suspected alligator attack on Hilton Head
Island in South Carolina, police said.
The woman, identified as Cassandra Cline, 45, according to South Carolina’s
The State <https://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article217007570.html>, was
walking her dog near a lagoon at Sea Pines Plantation when a large
alligator apparently attacked her.
“She did not have the dog on a leash, and when she went to go retrieve the
dog, the gator came out of the water, grabbed her by the arm and pulled her
into the water,” a golf club employee, who does not wish to be identified,
told HuffPost.
Police were dispatched to the scene around 9:30 a.m.her body,” the Beaufort
County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release
<https://local.nixle.com/alert/6756610/?sub_id=9412184>. The cause of death
is pending.
A maintenance man is said to have witnessed the attack, which was
reportedly recorded on surveillance video. Authorities said the woman’s dog
was not harmed.
Sam Chappalear of South Carolina’s Department of Natural Resources told The
State that the alligator believed responsible for the attack was caught and
euthanized.
<https://www.facebook.com/SeaPinesLiving/posts/1903758146347212>
David Lucas, a department spokesman, told HuffPost that verified human
fatalities from alligators are “extremely rare.”
In July 2016, a 90-year-old woman was found dead in a retention pond behind
an assisted living facility in Charleston County. The coroner’s office
concluded that she died because of “multiple sharp and blunt force
injuries.”
At the time, her death was called the first of its kind in the state in
decades.
“The injuries are consistent with those which could be inflicted by an
alligator and our investigation has confirmed that an alligator was
involved in the decedent’s death,” Charleston County Coroner Rae Wooten
told The Post and Courier
<https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/death-of--year-old-woman-attributed-to-gator/article_cf599395-33b3-5bea-8d07-44381f57733b.html>
in
2016.
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