Alligator Bites Fla. Real Estate Tycoon While Wrestling

[dogday]

LABELLE, Fla. — A real estate tycoon who owns a nature preserve tried to show off for visitors by jumping on an alligator's back for a ride, but the reptile bit his hand and dragged him into 15 feet of water.

The 8-foot alligator let go of Ronald Bergeron after witnesses pulled its tail. Bergeron, 62, suffered a shattered pinky, a broken ring finger and puncture wounds in his palm.

The multimillionaire developer tried the stunt Sunday while giving a tour of his 5,000-plus-acre preserve to weekend guests who had made large donations to the Boys & Girls Club.

"I always tell them I'm going to wrestle an alligator," Bergeron said Wednesday. "It's part of my Florida cracker culture. My grandfather was a game warden in the Everglades, and I grew up around alligators."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194251,00.html

[DUHandle]

1. Stick to noodling, Ron n/t

[hiaasenrocks]

2. Heh. Awesome. n/t

[giant_robot]

3. "It's part of my Florida cracker culture."

Famous last words of the cracker culture: "Hold my beer. Watch this!"

[RebelOne]

4. He deserves the Darwin Award. n/t

[Haole Girl]

5. Nature rules! n/t

[dogday]

6. He could always sue himself!!!!

:rofl:

[NaturalHigh]

7. I thought alligator wrestling...

went out with pet rocks.