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Man’s swift move saves him from huge alligator’s ‘death roll’ – Yahoo News Australia
‘You’re talking seconds before a ’gator that size begins his death roll… That eight to 10 seconds will be burned in my mind the rest of my life,’ he said.
A 61-year-old man has fought off an eight-foot alligator which he believes was trying to drag him into the water while he walked his dog.
Mark Johnson, from St Lucie County in the US state of Florida, told Local 10 News he was walking his dog Rex near a canal on Sunday about 9.30am (local time) when he got stuck in some mud.
An alligator then appeared and lunged at his leg.
He starts clamping down pretty tight and he started to pull, and the next thing I do, I instantly, heres my fingers, I p…
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