A Florida teenager detailed how he fought back after an alligator grabbed his leg after he jumped in a creek. The teen needed stitches but wasn't seriously hurt — he even managed to calmly call 911, saying: 'Yeah, I can walk. I just got bit by a gator.'
shared his harrowing account after an alligator grabbed his leg while he was playing with friends at a creek near Orlando this week.
He said once the alligator grabbed onto his right leg, "I knew that if he didn't let go, there was no getting him off because his jaw was so tied on. There's no getting out of that." "He kept pulling, so then I just tried to hit him and then he let go and then I ran up as fast as I could," Gabriel said.Allison Klimis said she told Gabriel to call 911, admitting his revelation left her in "complete shock. Terror, of course. Super scared."
"It just stings a bit but I’m good," He added in the call, saying his wound wasn’t "bleeding too bad, but my skin’s like open pretty good."
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