Let’s hear it for the fearless alligator rider
An animal trainer was saved by a Good Samaritan on Sunday after an alligator clamped onto her hand.
Scales and Tails in Salt Lake City hosted a 5-year-old’s birthday party over the weekend, KUTV reported, and trainer Lindsay Bull was attacked during a routine feeding of an 8 ½ foot male alligator, video shows…
Watching on, a Good Samaritan, identified as Donnie Wiseman, is heard asking Bull if he could help, to which she replied, “If you can get on his back, go on his back.” The trainer later told the NBC affiliate she only allowed Wiseman to enter because he said he had worked with an 18-foot python before…
The onlooker quickly jumped on Darth Gator’s back and after a minute, Bull was able to free her hand and another Good Samaritan, identified as Todd Christopher, pulled her out of the enclosure.
With careful instruction, Wiseman was able to safely exit as well…
Scales and Tails owner, Shane Richins, echoed “I hope no one thinks it’s a good idea to just run out and hop on a gator because they saw it, but they probably saved her arm and possibly her life by running in and stabilizing him so he couldn’t keep rolling on her, and then they just held him still until he relaxed and let her go.”
I think I can safely assure Richins that, if I’m ever there, I will not be riding any alligators.
I think this one needs Ozzy Man. She was saved because he wasn’t filming with his phone (and was a brave, upstanding dude.)
Donnie Wiseman!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the kind of toxic masculinity democrats want to eliminate from society and our military. Afghanistan is the perfect example what would happen if you replace brave patriots who would die for the country with woke feminist losers who surrender immediately when facing real threats
Gator not a Croc. Crocodile = a very sad ending for her & him jumping in.
She’s a very fortunate lady & Mr Wiseman is one of those heroes who just seem to show up every now and then.
Here’s a video of the alligator wrangler from the local Fox affiliate in Utah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWPTzDw2_aA&ab_channel=FOX13NewsUtah
Nice headline, but the gentleman didn’t “ride” the gator, he sat on it to immobilize it. Sorry to pop anyone’s balloon. It’s still a good story. And I won’t be riding — or astriding — any alligators either, at least not unnecessarily. But I’m glad to know the right thing to do should the situation arise.
These creatures are dangerous animals, nobody can predict what is in their mind and how they behave their nature as animals can’t be vanished or be reprogramed by trainers.
This reminds me of Australian ‘Crocodile hunter’ Steve Irwin who was killed by a stingray…..
These days the word “hero” has been so overused that it has almost lost all meaning. I watched the video and that lady would have been dead if the guy hadn’t jumped into the tank with the alligator to save her.
Good for him, he really is a hero.
Credit where due. That’s a Man. Non Soy Variant.
And that woman needs someone to sort her head space out and stop her from doing stupid attention-whoring #@$% like that in future. I don’t care if it was ostensibly ‘for the children’… Shouldn’t be happening. Same thing went for the late Steve Irwin — someone really should have had a word with him about hubris before it all went to hell.
Most commenters on here already have deduced that you’re a frustrated little incel, Zaphod. But just what part of her doing her job is attention whoring?
OlderandWheezier:
Astounding insight into my psyche (*) aside, do you think that a sensible person should be cavorting in a tank with large carnivorous reptiles for the entertainment of kids at a birthday party? I could understand if she were collecting scum off its teeth in order to search for a cancer cure. Maybe.
It’s Darwin Award Level Stupidity. You’ll notice, if you read carefully, that I took a swipe at Steve Irwin in the interests of adding a ton of feathers to the Fair and Balanced Scale. Sometimes people just Need to be Told.
(*) Incel: You might want to think a bit carefully about using the Enemy’s nomenclature. Or just think. Good luck.
Z an incel? No, Z gets all he needs by asking the cabbies. When not hitting on the uninterested of ladies in the pool. Austin Powers he is.
DNW where are you?
For your Viewing Pleasure
How Om imagines my daily life to be be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZESpb8ega4
The Reality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8in5-_qTmIw
Come to the PRC where the CCP doesn’t hate you as long as you know what not to say.
Not an incel; a eunuch.
Cheers, Sir Chappie!
Haha, my prediction correct before I even made it.
At the very least, Captain Hook jokes will never be the same to the young lady….
Nightmares of ‘thing’ from the Addams Family may even haunt her…
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