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Well, I'm not quite sure how this happened... maybe this guy is in major need of glasses, but a Florida man got attacked by an alligator after he mistook it for a dog!
Investigators say the man told them he was walking outside the motel overnight when he spotted a dark figure moving along the bushes on the shell path.
"He stated the figure appeared to look like a dog with a long leash, which is why he wasn't hesitant to move out of the way," a sheriff's office spokesperson wrote in an email.
That's when deputies say the alligator bit his right leg, ripping off a chunk of his muscle as he tried to get away. Luckily, he was able to flag down one deputy who was already in the area on an unrelated call. That deputy called for paramedics, and the man was taken to the hospital.