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Golfer loses arm in gator attack
by i95 on Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:20 pm
Friday, October 9, 2009
Golfer loses arm in gator attack
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Associated Press
BEAUFORT, S.C. -- Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a private South Carolina course.
The man, who is in his 70s, was retrieving his ball from a pond when the 10-foot alligator bit him at Ocean Creek Golf Course in Beaufort County. The gator pulled the golfer into the pond and ripped off his arm in the struggle. His golf partners were able to free him.
Wildlife workers killed the alligator and retrieved the arm in the hopes it might be reattached.
The man has not been identified. He was being treated at the Medical University of South Carolina, but officials there would not release any information about him.
A call to the golf course was not immediately returned.
(Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=4545614)
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Re: Golfer loses arm in gator attack
by clothier on Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:37 pm
hope they let him come back and finish his round when he gets out of the hospital.
on a semi-related note, I hate playing behind the old guys who always want to fish balls out of the water. Go buy a dozen, it's still only 10 bucks. You know what that sound was? The sound of ball companies making more.
on a semi-related note, I hate playing behind the old guys who always want to fish balls out of the water. Go buy a dozen, it's still only 10 bucks. You know what that sound was? The sound of ball companies making more.
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Re: Golfer loses arm in gator attack
by Independent George on Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:50 pm
The article says that the guy is in his 70s. He's pretty much gotten all of the use out of that arm that he needs, no? I think he may have helped the gator, though. So, it really is just nature working her own magic.
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Re: Golfer loses arm in gator attack
by clothier on Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:25 pm
hope that wasn't the hand he masturbates with.
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Re: Golfer loses arm in gator attack
by pastrami-on-wry on Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:44 am
clothier wrote:hope that wasn't the hand he masturbates with.
Alligators masturbate?
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Re: Golfer loses arm in gator attack
by The Goddess on Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:03 pm
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Re: Golfer loses arm in gator attack
by pastrami-on-wry on Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:48 pm
The Goddess wrote:Speaking of Golf...
Chávez Sees Red at Thought of Golf Greens: Venezuelan Leader Makes 'Bourgeois' Sport Latest Object of His Disaffection
Chavez is George Carlin ?
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Re: Golfer loses arm in gator attack
by The Goddess on Sat Oct 10, 2009 2:29 pm
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