After being sent the compelling photo below I backtracked and found the story, which isn’t new. I’ve found other stories that say this limb was re-attached and the Vet is on the mend. I reckon MissFidget.com is your source for Cap’n Hook photos. Click here to read about Bill Hedden’s alligator encounter in SC and click here to see the startling image. And dear readers please, please, please be careful with your arms when you’re near alligators.
Alligator bites off vet’s forearm in Taiwan zoo
Asia-Pacific News | Apr 11, 2007, 12:31 GMT
Taipei - An alligator in a Taiwan zoo bit off a veterinarian’s forearm Wednesday when the vet was trying to treat the sick animal.
The incident occurred at the Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, south Taiwan, when zoo vet Chang Po-yu was giving the alligator three anaesthesia shots, so that he could treat the alligator’s illness.
After having given the alligator its shots, Chang, thinking the animal was under anaesthesia, tried to pull the syringe with his left hand from the alligator, but the alligator suddenly turned around and bit off Chang’s left hand and forearm.
Chang was rushed to hospital. The zoo’s security personnel arrived at the scene one hour later, shot the alligator and freed Chang’s forearm from the alligator’s mouth and sent it to the hospital.
Chang was conscious upon arrival at the hospital, and doctors began sewing his left forearm back on.
‘This is a difficult operation because we have to sew back his muscles, nerves and blood vessels which are badly severed,’ one doctor told reporters.
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