A Florida man whose right arm was bitten off by a 10-foot alligator brushed off losing a limb in the attack, because as he puts it, "It's not the end of the world." Jordan Rivera, 23, fell into a pond behind Banditos Bar in Port Charlotte on Sunday shortly before 2 a.m., according to NBC affiliate WBBH in Fort Myers. “I didn't lose my life, I lost an arm, it's not the end of the world,” Rivera told the news outlet during an interview from his hospital bed at the Gulf Coast Medical Center.
A spokesperson for Charlotte County Fire & EMS said personnel responded to an alligator attack about 1:40 a.m.“The responding crew treated a male patient who had an above the elbow amputation of his upper right extremity. Bystanders applied a tourniquet to the patient before we arrived. The patient was airlifted to Gulf Coast Medical Center in Ft.Myers.”
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission trappers found and removed the gator that attacked Rivera, WBBH reported. It measured nearly 10 ½ feet and was euthanized, according to the commission.
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