Wallace Weatherholt, a 63-year-old airboat captain, was leading a tour on June 12 when the group encountered a 9-foot alligator. Passengers told the Fort Myers News-Press that Weatherholt "hung a fish over the side of the boat and had his hand at the water's surface when the alligator attacked."
Weatherholt was charged with unlawful feeding, a second-degree misdemeanor, on Friday. He posted $1,000 and was released from Collier County Jail.
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4 comments:
Poor guy. What makes a prosecutor go forward with a case like this? Trying to keep the conviction rates up?
A lesson learned though - don't handfeed 'gators!
Now That is "Funny"...LoL...
Dead-Man Driving was pretty cool too Nice Blog that You have here... Keep up the Great Posts...
Good to hear from you Doc! I really like your blog too, I'm gonna go subscribe in fact. :)
I'm going to be super busy at work for the next few months so my blog will suffer a little for it. But I'll never abandon my little passion of digging up these gems.
See you later.
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