A 23-year-old man says he is lucky to be alive after an encounter with an alligator in Port Charlotte, Florida, over the weekend forced doctors to amputate his arm.
A 10-foot alligator attacked anear a pond outside a bar over the weekend, biting the man’s arm so severely that doctors were forced to amputate the limb, officials said.
The 23-year-old man was taken by helicopter to Gulf Coast Hospital in Fort Myers, where his arm was amputated, said Todd Dunn, a spokesman for Charlotte County Fire and EMS.
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