People who frequent the course said it's not unusual for someone to look for lost discs that can be sold for a few dollars.
The man who died was 47 years old, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in an email. The commission said a contracted specialist was working to remove an alligator from the lake"and efforts will be made to determine if it was involved in this situation."notes that patrons can"discover the sport of disc golf on a course set in the natural beauty of this park." The course is set along the lake, which has no-swimming signs posted along it.
People who frequent the disc course said it's not unusual for someone to look for lost discs that can be sold for a few dollars. "These are people that are down on their luck," Ken Hostnick, 56, told the Tampa Bay Times."Sometimes they dive in the lakes, they'll pull out 40 discs. You may sell them for five bucks a piece, and you may sell them for 10 bucks a piece, depending on the quality."Alligators are found almost everywhere in Florida where there is any kind of water.
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