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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Central Florida Man Found Dead Near Alligator
2019-06-28
[WFLANEWS.IHEART] Sheriff's deputies are investigating after an alligator was discovered with its jaws on a man's body.
I'm starting to think we need a "Florida Man" category.
I’m sure there are entire websites for that.
The site was near an old phosphate mine off Peeples Road. The Polk Sheriff's Office got the call from a supervisor at phosphate mining company Mosaic around 7:45 Thursday morning. They found the dead man in a canal after someone spotted both the body and the gator.

The sheriff's office says the creature "disengaged" when they arrived. State FWC agents shot and killed the alligator.

Deputies say they don't know what caused the man's death, and won't say until the medical examiner finishes an autopsy on his body and a necropsy on the alligator.
Posted by:Fred

#7  ...come on Steve, that is so not Prog.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-06-28 12:21  

#6  Sure, so they KILL the animal!

No sense shooting the guy. He was already dead.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-06-28 11:02  

#5  Sounds more like a body dump and an opportunistic alligator.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-06-28 10:09  

#4  An autopsy is in order for alligator and man. Someone could have bumped-off Lefty and dumped his body in the canal to get rid of it.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-06-28 08:13  

#3  The FWC killed the fucking alligator ?! Why ? Shouldn't they be fired ? Where the hell are those PETA types now ? The poor thing had already let go of the toyman !
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-28 04:46  

#2  Sure, so they KILL the animal!
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-06-28 04:05  

#1  Florida man like This?
Posted by: newc   2019-06-28 03:56  

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