Alligator stalks jogger, then eats her.

[Grimmlok]

POSTED: 7:06 am EDT May 12, 2006
UPDATED: 10:08 am EDT May 12, 2006

An alligator that killed a woman jogger in Broward County, Fla., likely stalked her on land before the attack, according to a Local 6 News report Friday.

The Broward County medical examiner said the alligator attacked Yovy Suarez Jimenez, 28, of Davie, on land and then dragged her dismembered body into a nearby lake.



Her body was found by construction workers after she didn't return from a jog the previous night.


"It is my professional opinion that the alligator attacked the woman while she was on land," said Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County's medical examiner. "She died of traumatic injuries sustained by an alligator attack, a mixture of blood loss and shock, and in my opinion died very fast."

Perper ruled out drowning because little water was found in her stomach and lungs, according to on story on The Miami Herald's Web site.

Earlier, Officer Jorge Pino, spokesman for the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, said the department had witnesses who had seen a woman matching Jimenez's description dangling her feet over the water's edge, but no one saw an attack, Pino said.

Trappers will try to catch and kill the animal, believed to be eight to 10-feet long, and the contents of its stomach will be examined, Pino said.

Perper said the alligator appeared to have crawled on to land and killed Jimenez and then dragged her body into the water.

He said alligators generally pull their prey into the water.

"When they are hungry they can be very very aggressive and attack for food purposes," he said.

There have been 25 fatal alligator attacks in Florida since 1948, according to the wildlife commission.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

http://www.local6.com/news/9204051/detail.html

[UndercoverGator]

Perhaps she wasn't running at all but was sitting around stoned out of her gourd luring the alligator with her tasty tasty tender flesh. That siren!

[Butterfly]

This freaks me out! Those things can run as fast as a racehorse for a short distance. And even if you only get bit there is a good chance of dying, their mouths are like sewers. Every once in awhile we get them in the lakes around my house, but they will remove them once they get over 4 feet long.

[Algernon]

Alligators and crocs scare the living shit out of me. They are a couple of the reasons I'll never live in Florida.

[Aurora]

I remember visting a friend of ours in florida and going out to the lake in their back yard in a paddle boat and we saw a gator/croc (I dont know the difference) sitting on the shore and as soon as he saw us he dove straight into the water twards us. I never paddled so fast in my life! I was sooo scared!

[Zee]

Once worked in oil refineries in Texas and Louisiana. Would usually see them in the swamps. Got locked out of the pickup truck by the crew tormenting the chick engineer. Yeah, they can move very fast on land. Amazingly fast.

[Tierra]

poor woman, what a way to die.

[Grimmlok]

Apparently 2 more women have been eaten over the weekend lol

what the hell

[Grimmlok]

I think Betty White has something to do with this.

[chuckpony]

Originally Posted by Grimmlok

I think Betty White has something to do with this.

haha, one of my favorite bad movies!

[dragonlady]

Originally Posted by Grimmlok

Apparently 2 more women have been eaten over the weekend lol

what the hell

I wonder how many of these cases are the inevitable "Dude look! An alligator! Let's go poke it with a stick" kinda deals. This may not be one of them, but you KNOW there's people out there who get eaten by animals because of stupidity.

[alcohol the honey]

You can't blame the alligators. They'll eat whatever comes along.