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It's all fun and games until a massive alligator you are filming charges at you! A Florida man says a large alligator lunged out of the water and charged at him while visiting the same park where a man was recently killed by a gator.
Foster Thorbjornsen posted this on his Facebook page, "CHARGED AT BY A BULL GATOR: While walking in a park yesterday near my home in Seminole, Florida, I saw a large alligator floating in a lake 20 feet from the shore. He was the the biggest alligator I have seen in the wild (8-10 feet long). I stopped to take close-up pictures of him with my zoom lens, while he stared back at me with cold dark menacing eyes. When I turned my gaze away from him to check my camera, he quickly swam to shore and charged at me..."
Alligator nesting season starts this time of year, and experts say it's when they're most aggressive.