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per WESH TV Orlando
Body found in pond they've been searching.
http://www.wesh.com/article/body-found-in-orlando-pond/20634272
I would think if someone got bit by an alligator it would be more likely that the person would scream “help!” or just plain scream. Rather than saying, “It bit me!”
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I have trouble believing 15 feet is accurate.
I would think if someone got bit by an alligator it would be more likely that the person would scream help! or just plain scream. Rather than saying, It bit me!
I could well depend on how familiar that person is with alligators. Alligators are part of the landscape in some areas and almost always shy away from humans. They are more aggressive when mating- hungry with a small person, or truly hungry and a larger person.
That aside, locals and especially those from rural backgrounds, can be accustomed to wading while hunting, fishing, hiking and even swimming around them with suitable precautions. One part of these precautions is just to keep a sensible distance depending on size of alligator and not to bother them. The alligators then will not bother you (well almost all the time).
Thus a local person would could well automatically describe the attack as being "bitten" by what he knew to be an alligator, and could well know it to be a particular alligator. If the report is accurate, and I hope it is not, my guess is that the youth was a local, accustomed to alligators, but unaware he was too close to one.
Press Conference- OC Sheriff-
Body found is FEMALE late teens to early 20's, no sign of alligator bites. Hispanic or black.
The name and age of the victim have not been released, but Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jeff Williamson said she was a black or Hispanic woman in her late teens to early 20s. There were no signs that a gator attacked the woman, whose body was found about 50 yards offshore, he said.
"We have some idea of who we think it may be," Williamson said. "It may take a few hours to confirm that."
You're probably correct that the youth was unaware he was too close, but from the link provided above ( thank you enelram ) it states the locals were aware the pond was infested with alligators. It also states:
"There's a fence around the pond and no trespassing signs, but neighbors say people still get in through holes in the fence..." It sounds like despite the warnings, the youth did not believe he was in any real danger, the way young people often do. Many of them are risk-takers and their stories become the grist for the tales they often tell others after they become sensible adults.
Neighbors living near the pond said the area is supposed to be off-limits. But even though there is a fence and "no trespassing" signs, some said they have seen young kids there regularly.
"Somebody cut that open (the fence and) people ride bikes back there and everything. I've seen a guy go one day with a baby carriage and a battery with his two teenage sons, because they had a boat hidden in the woods with an electric motor and they were going fishing. I said, 'You know, there are gators in there,' and he goes, 'Yeah.' He was taking his boys back there to fish," Ruben Perez said.
The neighbors said they try to keep their distance from the water because of the gators around the lake.
Could it have been a snake??