How a Florida senior fought off alligator attack with fishing pole: ‘No gator is going to run me off’

Fonte: New York Post

This gator messed with the wrong senior. A quick-thinking Florida fisherman attacked by an alligator narrowly escaped with his life by digging his thumb in its eye and then repeatedly hammering it in the face with his fishing rod. James Grayson McMicken, 71, was ready to enjoy a quiet night of fishing with his bulldog on the shore of a canal behind his North Fort Myers home on July 3 — but only made one cast before a gator ambushed him.