Thursday, June 01, 2006

Gator jitsu

Well I'll be darned. I didn't know alligators were skilled in jujitsu :-)

Sometimes, after leaving alligators temporarily trussed with duct tape and rope in the back of his truck outside his house, they wriggle free. He found one escapee head-butting a neighbor's front door and had to wrangle another out of his garden pond.

Still another shimmied off his truck and into the street, where he performed a "death roll" in front of amazed residents: Alligators can spin up to 100 times a minute to disable or drown their prey.

Garvey knows their jowly jujitsu skills all too well. A scar on one leg testifies to the time an eight-and-a-half-foot alligator rolled him. And he still has a stiff thumb from another encounter with a jaw.

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