Always share your crack with the gator.

[Dr.Phool]

They get pissed when you don't.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/29/gator.attack.reut/index.html

Florida man pulled from alligator's jaws
POSTED: 7:38 p.m. EST, November 29, 2006
Story Highlights
• NEW: 12-foot alligator caught; officials think it is attacker
• NEW: Police say man told them he had smoked crack cocaine before attack
• Resident heard screams; deputies pulled naked man from gator's grasp in lake
• Man loses arm, in critical condition after gator attack


MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Florida sheriff's deputies jumped into a dark lake and pulled a naked man from the jaws of an alligator early Wednesday, authorities said.

The man lost his left arm and had a broken right arm and major injuries to his left leg, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. He was hospitalized in critical condition.

After several people reported hearing screams for help from central Florida's Lake Parker at about 4 a.m. ET, deputies arrived to find the man in the alligator's grasp, the sheriff said. (Watch sheriff tell the story Video)

Four deputies waded through waist-deep mud, wrestled the man free and pulled him about 40 yards back to shore to a waiting ambulance, Judd said.

"He was totally naked," Judd said of the victim, identified as 45-year-old Adrian Apgar.

"He admitted that he'd been smoking crack cocaine. But still, it's a human life," Judd said at a news conference. "Our deputies don't ask questions, they respond and they save people."

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[htuttle]

1. You know, I'm sort of disturbed by that last line in your snippet...

"He admitted that he'd been smoking crack cocaine. But still, it's a human life," Judd said at a news conference.

"But still..."??


Um...was there any suggestion that he should have been left to the gator, since he'd been smoking crack? Would they say the same thing about saving a dumb drunk (doing the same dumb thing...)? Aren't they in the business of saving people's asses first, and dealing with any criminal charges later? (yes, I know he went on to say that, but I'm wondering why he felt the need to justify their actions...).


Oh....what a world, what a world....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Some world leaders don't need to smoke crack in order to

justify in their own minds the upheaval of an entire nation of 25 million. It's amazing what one human life can do.... isn't it.

[NOLADEM]

4. I was gonna post exactly the same thing

Another unacknowledged cost of the drug war is dehumanizing addicts. It allows us to blame them for society's ills and allows us to punish without remorse.

Problem is, you create this mindset. Oh, it was just a prostitute, or a drug addict getting eaten by that alligator or beaten by that pimp or killed by that psycho. Oh well.

Sad. Sadder still this cop felt the need to say it.

[YDogg]

2. Happened in Lakeland, FL, not Miami

"He admitted that he'd been smoking crack cocaine. But still, it's a human life," Judd said at a news conference. "Our deputies don't ask questions, they respond and they save people."

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An interesting quote from Grady Judd, the same sheriff who lead the hunt for the cop killer who was subsequently slaughtered by the cops. Not that I'm passing judgement on the cops.