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A hotheaded Florida alligator lunged at a photographer this week after a prolonged standoff in the identical park the place a person was fatally dismembered final month.
Foster Thorbjornsen, of Seminole, stated he was strolling by Taylor Park in Largo when he noticed the huge creature floor roughly 20 ft from shore.
“He was the largest alligator I've seen within the wild,” Bjornsen wrote, estimating its size at 8 to 10 ft.
The shutterbug stated he grabbed a zoom lens to take a closeup shot because it glared at him menacingly.
After an extended stare down, the reptile immediately lunged at Thorbjornsen the second he turned away to verify his digicam.
“The timing of his cost was deliberate,” he wrote on Fb. “He waited for me to show and look away. It was nerve wracking and intense.”
The flustered photographer stated he felt it was protected to solely retreat a couple of steps again due to a steep embankment between him and a possible mauling.
He got here away from the confrontation unscathed.
Thorbjornsen fared much better than a earlier customer to the identical park who's believed to have been fatally attacked by a gator whereas in search of golf discs within the water.
Sean McGuinness, 47, was discovered within the lake lacking three limbs on Might 31 and officers stated he had doubtless encountered a gator.
“It is a park frequented by households with babies who typically go to the water’s edge,” Thorbjornsen wrote. “Undoubtedly not the best place for a big aggressive territorial bull gator.”
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