Monday, July 30, 2012

'Gator Eats Mans Hand, He Gets Charged With Illegal Feeding

An Everglades tour guide who lost his hand to an alligator last month was arrested over the weekend, charged with unlawful alligator feeding.

 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.

Read more HERE

4 comments:

  1. Gabriel SigmaJuly 31, 2012 at 12:44 AM

    Poor guy. What makes a prosecutor go forward with a case like this? Trying to keep the conviction rates up?

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  2. DavidAugust 1, 2012 at 6:58 PM

    A lesson learned though - don't handfeed 'gators!

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  3. Dr. ThedaAugust 9, 2012 at 5:08 PM

    Now That is "Funny"...LoL...
    Dead-Man Driving was pretty cool too Nice Blog that You have here... Keep up the Great Posts...

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  4. DavidAugust 9, 2012 at 7:09 PM

    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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