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Despite his age, an 80-year-old man in southwest Miami-Dade County in Florida, USA, was strong enough to wrangle a large alligator in his own backyard.
The man, identified as Ed Chapman, said that his dog Rocco alerted him about the six-and-a-half-foot animal聽in his backyard. He also tried to trap it himself, local media WSVN reported on Tuesday.
鈥淭hat thing tugged me all over,鈥� he was quoted in the report as saying.聽鈥淐arried me, twisting and fighting me all the way across the property.鈥�
In an attempt to lure the animal, Chapman said he brought out a noose and got around the alligator鈥檚 neck.
However, the animal was not going down without a fight. 鈥淗e swatted me with his tail and knocked my legs out from under me,鈥� he said. Chapman went on to say that the alligator 鈥渁rgued together,鈥� until they got all the way to a pond. When asked what he meant when he said 鈥渁rgued,鈥� he replied: 聽鈥淵eah, we argued. Yeah, he wasn鈥檛 happy.鈥�
鈥淎nd then he got his front legs down in the reeds there, and then we went all the way down, and he had his face in the water,鈥� Chapman said about his encounter with the animal.
The man then called 911 for help, to which the Miami-Dade police and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded.
The report said that Chapman鈥檚 experience was nothing new, as he collects poisonous snakes for venom research and breeds wolves.
However, he disagreed with someone when he was described as a tough guy. 鈥淣ah, not tough. I鈥檝e just been around this stuff a long time,鈥� Chapman said.聽Katrina Hallare /ra
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