Man stabs gator to protect dog

[Rufio]

CNN

Man stabs gator to protect dog
Friday, August 27, 2004 Posted: 9:32 AM EDT (1332 GMT)

GAINESVILLE, Florida (AP) -- A man jumped in a pond and stabbed a 6-foot alligator with a pocketknife to force the reptile to release his dog from its jaws.

Matthew Goff, 29, said he was walking Sugar, a tan-colored bloodhound/Shar-Pei mix, in a park when the attack occurred Wednesday evening. The unleashed dog wandered to the edge of the pond, and the gator grabbed its head.

"I couldn't stand by and watch it happen, and I had the pocketknife so I decided to try and save her," Goff said.

The gator released Sugar when Goff stabbed the reptile in the eye. The dog then ran home, escaping with three teeth marks on and about her head. Goff had a few scratches.

A state trapper planned to kill the gator if it's found.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

The title makes this great.

 

[dafatha00]

Heh, not as cool as the guy who dragged the shark ashore and killed it, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

 

[BladeWalker]

He was luck it was only a 6 ft gator.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: dafatha00
Heh, not as cool as the guy who dragged the shark ashore and killed it, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

Or the guy that cut off his own arm with a pocketknife, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

 

[Kroze]

Originally posted by: dafatha00
Heh, not as cool as the guy who dragged the shark ashore and killed it, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

you got the link to that? that guy must be badass.

 

[GasX]

A man is a dog's best friend...

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Kroze

Originally posted by: dafatha00
Heh, not as cool as the guy who dragged the shark ashore and killed it, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

you got the link to that? that guy must be badass.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Kroze

Originally posted by: dafatha00
Heh, not as cool as the guy who dragged the shark ashore and killed it, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

you got the link to that? that guy must be badass.

His name is Aron Ralston

 

[Rufio]

Originally posted by: BladeWalker
He was luck it was only a 6 ft gator.

u sound like a fortune cookie.

 

[Nitemare]

Don't mess with a guys dog...

 

[OutHouse]

i bet that dogs paws didnt even touch the ground when it hauled ass home.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

lets have a moment of silence for this truely heroic display of badassness!


great post!

 

[NuclearNed]

<democrat> But... but... but... think of the gator!!! </democrat>

 

[mobobuff]

Not quite as bad-ass as the guy who laid that kodiak bear out flat with a frying pan. But probably a lot more not-fake.

 

[Trey22]

Have to agree, quite a badass.

 

[jyates]

Man's best friend......

If a gator got your wife or one of your kids would you go in after it?

 

[KhoiFather]

FO sho

 

[dafatha00]

Originally posted by: Kroze

Originally posted by: dafatha00
Heh, not as cool as the guy who dragged the shark ashore and killed it, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

you got the link to that? that guy must be badass.

Badass shark killer

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I would of had sex with it

:Q

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I would of had sex with it

:Q

Believe me, a good old romp in the swamp does the body good.

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: dafatha00

Originally posted by: Kroze

Originally posted by: dafatha00
Heh, not as cool as the guy who dragged the shark ashore and killed it, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

you got the link to that? that guy must be badass.

Badass shark killer

Someone quote the article damnit.

 

[ugopk]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick

Originally posted by: dafatha00

Originally posted by: Kroze

Originally posted by: dafatha00
Heh, not as cool as the guy who dragged the shark ashore and killed it, but stabbing a gator is bad ass nonetheless.

you got the link to that? that guy must be badass.

Badass shark killer

Someone quote the article damnit.

An Icelandic fishing captain, known as "the Iceman" for his tough character, grabbed a 300 kg shark with his bare hands as it swam in shallow water towards his crew, a witness said today.

The skipper of the trawler "Erik the Red" was on a beach in Kuummiit, east Greenland, watching his crew processing a catch when he saw the shark swimming towards the fish blood and guts - and his men.

Captain Sigurdur Petursson, known to locals as "the Iceman", ran into the shallow water and grabbed the shark by its tail. He dragged it off to dry land and killed it with his knife.

"He caught it just with his hands. There was a lot of blood in the sea and the shark came in and he thought it was dangerous," Frede Kilime, a hunter and fisherman who watched from the beach, told Reuters by phone from Greenland.

Icelandic author and journalist Reynir Traustason, who knows the trawler captain, said the act was typical of the man.

"He's called 'the Iceman' because he isn't scared of anything," he said. "I know the people in that part of the world. They are really tough."

Reuters

 

[Mookow]

So what kind of shark was it?

 

[0roo0roo]

i guess he didn't have time to st@b it in the other eye. blind gator easier to find

<democrat> But... but... but... think of the gator!!! </democrat>

he thought of the dog u moron. u'd just give the gator a tax cut and hope he'd do the right thing.