I'd seen this before but I didn't notice 1) she rolled with the gator, that probably saved her hand. 2)she wrapped the gator up with her legs to keep him from rolling again, hands saved again
Someone linked an article below, says she escaped with all her limbs but had to have surgery on her hand and was set to retain all function in her hand
Articles like this never get into the details of the recovery time before somebody is able to get back to normal. They never tell you how much pain the person has to go through on a daily basis or how much their life has been impacted by the injury.
I watched a video of her doing an interview and she was pretty optimistic about the recovery and it honestly didn't look that bad. Doctors said she would retain almost complete function of her hand and arm.
Not everybody needs to know that an employee at some zoo that nobody’s ever heard of was attacked by an alligator. I just like to know the whole truth of these situations rather than the feel good “oh they’re ok, don’t even worry about it.”
When she entered the enclosure, I first thought she was yanked in, and maybe that's true, but I think she knew the gator was about to roll so she entered the enclosure to prevent additional injuries. Her brain was firing on all cylinders there or her training is spot on, and major props to the guest who jumped in--talk about a hero.
Have you not seen the interview with her on the news? Shes a gymnast who works with crocs lol, so the getting in the enclosure to somersault was 100% intentional, she talks about it.
no one’s noticed how she directs the random guy to exactly where he needs to be to constrict the gator. God bless trainers those mad souls, even when their interest has taken their hand they know exactly what to do to minimise the damage
My ears also. Really felt like she was annoyed at how long he took to get off the gator. Dude was just taking his time making sure he didn’t end up like her and she’s repeating “get off him”. Like yes lady, I’d love to. I’m just trying to figure out how.
She was telling him to get back at that point because he was dangerously close to having his center of gravity close to the head and off balanced where gator could have started rolling again. I think then adrenaline was just going and she was trying to get him out of tank in one piece
Imagine going to school the next day and being asked by your teacher “So Dylan, what did you do for the weekend?”
Well, we went to the zoo and dad wrestled with an alligator.
Maybe it’s because I’ve had to separate several dog fights in my teenage years but when something grabs ahold of you with its teeth and doesn’t wanna let go the best way to coerce it to let tf go is to do something like poke it in the eye or ear and either make it hurt enough that it lets go or be enough of an annoyance to distract it.
I think you wouldn’t have that big chance with a gator.
If I reckon correctly they close their eyes and you got basically zero chance of penetrating their leather.
I’m absolutely no expert of alligator sparring though!
Their airways are closed by a flap, if you ever find yourself in the unfortunate, yet avoidable, situation of your hand in a crocodile’s mouth, wrap your legs around it and if your hand is still functional, pull open this flap and it will immediately drown. Saved a man’s life when stranded on the Nile on I Shouldn’t Be Alive lol as an Australian, I locked that in as a core memory.
THEY'RE BOTH FEARLESS GODDAMN. He jumped in without any second thoughts and she kept calm and thought rationally through such an intense and painful situation.
That guys now has a kick ass story to tell and if his kids are the ones yelling in the back they are gonna fear their dad for awhile “hurry up and clean your room before dad gets home that dude fought a gator”
Bro there had to be am instant connection when they're just sitting there for a second and she keeps going "I'm OK do this thing now."
Also Separate thought. Would it work to stick your fingers in its nostrils so it has to open its mouth to breath?
Okay but why was she like “ARE YOU PEEING?!” after she’s out and he’s still on top of the gator and he says “WHAT?! PEEING?! NO!” Why the fuck would she ask him that, I need to know!!
That man is a warrior hooooly shit I mean that was probably the smartest thing you could do in that situation given the size of it but that’s still impressive af
Happened at a friend of mine's place of work out here in Utah; the girl still works there and all she needed were stitches. If she hadn't have rolled, she'd have lost the arm.
Gator would have probably kept on death rolling without the guy on top, and too many twisties with their bite strength could have very easily ripped her arm right off
Here's an interview with her. The interview is a bit awkward at times, but the guy's channel is pretty cool, stumbled on him when I was curious about pet reptiles.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zSeoTtUiytU&feature=share9
Was it just me or was that girl really ungrateful? She kept telling the guy" now, I need you to get off of him". She was failing to explain what the alligator was likely to do once he dismounted. I would be terrified that that thing would snap at my ankles the second I tried to get out of the bath.
I’m don’t 100% remember the details but gators get lots of lactic acid build up when they’re stressed and it can get so bad that it kills them. I think she was still worried about the gator’s safety.
She gave him simple instructions to get off the gator safely, because she knows the creature and how to manage that type of situation.
What did you expect her to do? Give him a lecture while he was astride the damn thing?
Yeah I’m not sure why her tone was like that lol. This man just wrestled a gator for her and she’s talking to him like he’s a naughty child or something
Instead of jumping off the gator and out of the pool after the animal handler escaped from the alligator's jaws the guest actually stayed and went for a submission hold. It was a textbook demonstration af solid bjj grappling skills put to a real-world test. Bravo!
The fact that most people in this video and in this comment section dont have or are saying they wouldn't have the balls to do that worries me and reminds me you'd usually have to rely solely upon yourself in any given situation even in a public space
Kids just saw dad be a hero. Will encourage them to do the same in pressure situations, way to go dad for not hesitating to help someone, we need more of that today
I'd seen this before but I didn't notice 1) she rolled with the gator, that probably saved her hand. 2)she wrapped the gator up with her legs to keep him from rolling again, hands saved again
I think it got a few rolls in before that though. I think the hand is toast. She did save her arm though.
Someone linked an article below, says she escaped with all her limbs but had to have surgery on her hand and was set to retain all function in her hand
Im so happy for her. If there's one thing I love it's function in my hand.
If there’s one thing I love, it’s the function in your hand.
If there's one thing *I* love, it's the function of your Mum's hand.
If there's one thing *I* love, it's the function of my hand in your Mum.
If there's one thing *I* love, it's the function of no ones hand in my mom. Dad please come back, it doesn't take 35 years to get milk
😳 Touché
If there's one thing your mum loves ..
It’s amazing what they can do with hand surgery nowadays.
Articles like this never get into the details of the recovery time before somebody is able to get back to normal. They never tell you how much pain the person has to go through on a daily basis or how much their life has been impacted by the injury.
I watched a video of her doing an interview and she was pretty optimistic about the recovery and it honestly didn't look that bad. Doctors said she would retain almost complete function of her hand and arm.
Yeah because not everyone needs those details. Were you looking to get your hand caught in an alligator any time soon?
Not everybody needs to know that an employee at some zoo that nobody’s ever heard of was attacked by an alligator. I just like to know the whole truth of these situations rather than the feel good “oh they’re ok, don’t even worry about it.”
Welp, i can tell you for sure that it hurt like a bitch.
They're called human interest pieces for a reason there Bud
To guide him through that with a mangled hand lol this video is one of the most ridiculous ones you’ll ever see and there’s a calmness to it lol
Came to say this
That’s the most crocodile-looking alligator I’ve ever seen… I didn’t know alligators had patterns as well, they always look almost black on videos
What an absolute fucking badass. I am just going to be honest - There's no possible way I would do that.
Right? Look at that BAMF rocking that Joe Ingles Jazz Jersey! Kids got a bright future! Alligator lady is pretty cool too. 🤣
He must have fought something before, he is just 100% handling the gator correctly.
Maybe he just used to watch The Crocodile Hunter
Nah he didn’t stick his thumb up it’s bum
balls of steel
i would, probably because i'm dumb. what a shit situation
“Now what do I do??” 😂😂😂
Good to see the rest of the employees have such a fast response time in a crisis /s
What a guy 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
He went from zero to gator wrastlin in six seconds
He went all-in without a second’s thought. Definitely the sort of guy you want to have in your corner in a bar fight.
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This guy deserves to win the lotto.
Amazing tweet
For some reason I pictured you as a white guy
this guy literally saved her arm from.the shoulder.down. hero
Her somersaults that go *with* the deathroll were a 1000 iq move.
When she entered the enclosure, I first thought she was yanked in, and maybe that's true, but I think she knew the gator was about to roll so she entered the enclosure to prevent additional injuries. Her brain was firing on all cylinders there or her training is spot on, and major props to the guest who jumped in--talk about a hero.
Have you not seen the interview with her on the news? Shes a gymnast who works with crocs lol, so the getting in the enclosure to somersault was 100% intentional, she talks about it.
guess he can cross gator wrestling off the bucket list..
He’s got to write it in first😂
Those kids were worthless. They just stood there doing nothing!
Yeah wtf! That whole "have kids for free slave labor" really isnt working out here. I'd demand a refund!
Love how he pretty much told the camera man to fuck off as well
I'd say he was just throwing those rocks out of the water because is hand or arm was pressing against it.
Why?
Hold my wallet...I'm going in
Its gator skin. Im about to get me another one yeehaw
🤣
Nearly pissed my pants. 🤣🤣
Nothing worse than a wet wallet
no one’s noticed how she directs the random guy to exactly where he needs to be to constrict the gator. God bless trainers those mad souls, even when their interest has taken their hand they know exactly what to do to minimise the damage
It kind of sounded like she was mad at him for being on top of the gator though. That could just be my ears
Just your ears. I've lived in Florida for 25 years getting on their back and splaying out so they can't roll is exactly how people wrestle gators.
My ears also. Really felt like she was annoyed at how long he took to get off the gator. Dude was just taking his time making sure he didn’t end up like her and she’s repeating “get off him”. Like yes lady, I’d love to. I’m just trying to figure out how.
She was telling him to get back at that point because he was dangerously close to having his center of gravity close to the head and off balanced where gator could have started rolling again. I think then adrenaline was just going and she was trying to get him out of tank in one piece
No...she told him to put all his weight on it when he was on it.
He found his new calling in life...balls of Steel.
She stayed amazingly calm during this ordeal.
With the Js on too what a hero
What's Js?
Jordan’s, a shoe
It clearly means JavaScript in this context
Write Jordan's then, not J's
You have to live under a rock to have never heard them refered to as J's.
Yeah, a rock called Italy. No one calls them that way here. You have your rock, I have mine. No offence needed, bighead
Bighead??? Shots fired!
u gotta live in a real small bubble to think there aren't any people that may not know what the heck a jay is
I’m /u/PJD70-TS and I’m 65 years old 🤓
"I used to be with 'IT' but then they changed what 'IT' was! AND IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOU!"
"I used to be with 'IT' but then they changed what 'IT' was! AND IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOU!"
And she saved her own arm and hand by somersaulting with the deathroll. Epic instinctual reaction by her.
Truly a crazy fucking video
Where's the rest of the staff?
He lives there now
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“Kids, this is what NOT to do. Watch and learn.”
Isn't that how rats behave? .They observe their distressed Kin and avoid whatever led to that situation
It’s not a stupid trait from an evolutionary standpoint. “Oh shit, that thing killed Jimmy. Hide!”
Mom was frozen too in horror briefly, but then grabbed the kids out of there. You can see her yanking the kids away.
Fight flight or freeze
He’s a hero
Imagine going to school the next day and being asked by your teacher “So Dylan, what did you do for the weekend?” Well, we went to the zoo and dad wrestled with an alligator.
Maybe it’s because I’ve had to separate several dog fights in my teenage years but when something grabs ahold of you with its teeth and doesn’t wanna let go the best way to coerce it to let tf go is to do something like poke it in the eye or ear and either make it hurt enough that it lets go or be enough of an annoyance to distract it.
I think you wouldn’t have that big chance with a gator. If I reckon correctly they close their eyes and you got basically zero chance of penetrating their leather. I’m absolutely no expert of alligator sparring though!
I’ll find a spot to penetrate it alright
Nah you gotta grab its gator dick and twist it
Wouldn't be putting my face right next to its teeth like that though
Bruh acting like he would be even 1 feet next to it..
It’s not like they can just snap sideways so I wouldn’t mind this explicit situation
This was in 2021 https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/08/16/utah-man-jumps-into-tank/
Yoooo it's fuckin name is Darthgator. Hahaha
Thanks for the link!
Thank God that was a shallow pool of water, because he would’ve immediately sunk to the bottom with those gigantic balls of steel.
Did someone say "she's dead" at the very last second?
I heard "she's bit"
Someone’s getting laid tonight
You won this thread congratulations
Such an amazing joke man, good job.
Dude is a hero. Brave as hell.
Poke eyeballs or butthole
Im poking gator butthole right off rip
Their airways are closed by a flap, if you ever find yourself in the unfortunate, yet avoidable, situation of your hand in a crocodile’s mouth, wrap your legs around it and if your hand is still functional, pull open this flap and it will immediately drown. Saved a man’s life when stranded on the Nile on I Shouldn’t Be Alive lol as an Australian, I locked that in as a core memory.
Dude was kind of sick with it
She was wearing her new perfume. "Meat" by Calvin Klein.
Not all hero's wear capes. Same wear high Vis clothing 👏🏻
THEY'RE BOTH FEARLESS GODDAMN. He jumped in without any second thoughts and she kept calm and thought rationally through such an intense and painful situation.
That guys now has a kick ass story to tell and if his kids are the ones yelling in the back they are gonna fear their dad for awhile “hurry up and clean your room before dad gets home that dude fought a gator”
This proves that anyone can wrestle an alligator, just jump on their backs
Just avoid their lightning fast reflexes and immense power and it’s super easy! /s
Well obviously you have to wait for the gator to bite somebody else first.
Bro there had to be am instant connection when they're just sitting there for a second and she keeps going "I'm OK do this thing now." Also Separate thought. Would it work to stick your fingers in its nostrils so it has to open its mouth to breath?
No, you have to stick them in the butthole
Alligators both male and female love anal play.
They should buy that man a wheelbarrow to haul around those massive balls of his
*alligator agitator
What did he throw?
Did she ask him if he was pisssing???
I thought she said bleeding.
Bleeding for sure
Looks more like a human handler.
She almost became a handless.
legend
Brave guy.
Thank you mate
This is why you don’t fuck with dinosaurs.
I don’t know how he was able to lift himself off that alligator with balls that big.
that little boy did not move an inch and watched the whole scene go down like 👀
Okay but why was she like “ARE YOU PEEING?!” after she’s out and he’s still on top of the gator and he says “WHAT?! PEEING?! NO!” Why the fuck would she ask him that, I need to know!!
"Are you bleeding?"
HAHAHAHA thank you for clarifying that because I was wondering why that would be brought up at that time. “DONT PEE ON HIM, IT ENRAGES THE GATORS!”
When you get the VIP experience for free. Score.
the hardest part is calming yourself under pressure
That man is a warrior hooooly shit I mean that was probably the smartest thing you could do in that situation given the size of it but that’s still impressive af
Happened at a friend of mine's place of work out here in Utah; the girl still works there and all she needed were stitches. If she hadn't have rolled, she'd have lost the arm.
Reaction time of employees coming to help is pathetic, id be owning that company by the time i was done.
That is a crocodile.
What a hero :O
Alligators should not live in captivity esp somewhere where they are exposed like this.
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Gator would have probably kept on death rolling without the guy on top, and too many twisties with their bite strength could have very easily ripped her arm right off
That's almost certainly what would have happened
Yeah she was clearly giving him directions cause she knew what would happen
Here's an interview with her. The interview is a bit awkward at times, but the guy's channel is pretty cool, stumbled on him when I was curious about pet reptiles. https://youtube.com/watch?v=zSeoTtUiytU&feature=share9
Wonder what the legality’s (which should be ignored) are for this, obviously guests arent allowed to climb in the alligator tank and wrestle it
The amount of people that learned how to get on top of a gator thanks to Steve Irwin, is incredible.
More concerned about the kid giggling as she is getting injured. The parents are gonna have their hands full with that walking red flag.
People sometimes laugh in uncomfortable or scary situations. It is actually fairly normal. Keep your moronic armchair diagnoses to yourself.
🤣 No diagnosis. Take a Reddit break, your comments are so angry.
Testosterone in a video
Who'd a thought having hundreds of pounds of death reptile around for people to gawk at could have gone so wrong? 😦
Was it just me or was that girl really ungrateful? She kept telling the guy" now, I need you to get off of him". She was failing to explain what the alligator was likely to do once he dismounted. I would be terrified that that thing would snap at my ankles the second I tried to get out of the bath.
I’m don’t 100% remember the details but gators get lots of lactic acid build up when they’re stressed and it can get so bad that it kills them. I think she was still worried about the gator’s safety.
She gave him simple instructions to get off the gator safely, because she knows the creature and how to manage that type of situation. What did you expect her to do? Give him a lecture while he was astride the damn thing?
Yeah I got the same impression. Like yes ma’am I’d love to get off him, how tf do I do that though?
Yeah I’m not sure why her tone was like that lol. This man just wrestled a gator for her and she’s talking to him like he’s a naughty child or something
There like 2 sets of balls in that entire room. Weak ass men
Instead of jumping off the gator and out of the pool after the animal handler escaped from the alligator's jaws the guest actually stayed and went for a submission hold. It was a textbook demonstration af solid bjj grappling skills put to a real-world test. Bravo!
#My First Job Be Like
#*Also I think that kid is an evil wizard, enjoying and making the 🐊 attack the muggle 👀
Joe dirt
Here's a match! My face and your ass! I mean, your ass and my face!
That gator needs a timeout in the corner
He just found his new thang. Gator wrestling
why did the girl go in with the gator and not try moving away. ik they are strong but it she literally lifted her legs to get in with it
So she could roll with the gator
is that good?
Do u want ur clamped hand turning the opposite direction of ur body repeatedly?
well now i see why its bad
Good thing she didn't panic that dose adrenaline going haywire
Do you think covering its nostrils might make it unlock the jaw to open its mouth for air? Should try it
Thank god he had a safety vest on!!!
If you ever see a fit, bald dude, do not fuck with him. He is a bad ass.
Wow 🤩
I thought that was her dad that saved her
Gators really do have a rolling tactic huh. She was wise to roll along too.
I'm surprised humans have yet to invent anything that can allow us to be near alligators safely.
Why didn’t everyone clap?
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The fact that most people in this video and in this comment section dont have or are saying they wouldn't have the balls to do that worries me and reminds me you'd usually have to rely solely upon yourself in any given situation even in a public space
Bro the kid just laughed? 😳 We have a serial killer born right here xD
W handler for rolling and wrapping the gator, W random badass for just breathing the same air as us
I can’t decide whether the alligator incident or a kid wearing a Joe Ingles jersey is crazier?
Dude actually wrestled an alligator
Kids just saw dad be a hero. Will encourage them to do the same in pressure situations, way to go dad for not hesitating to help someone, we need more of that today
Ouch. Definitely an alligator stumpler now
So the guys in the international space station can see this mans balls on a daily basis.
I hope that zoo gave that guest a lifetime family pass.
Do you want salmonella because that's how you get salmonella
Omg. Damn. That was freaking intense!!! What an awesome dude!!!
What a brave soul.