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Boy's Arm Recovered After Alligator Attack
POSTED: 5:11 pm CDT July 30, 2008
UPDATED: 8:02 pm CDT July 30, 2008
NEW ORLEANS -- A boy's arm has been recovered after it was bitten off by an alligator Wednesday.
The alligator severed 11-year-old Devin Funck's arm Wednesday, according to police.
Officers said the boy and two girls played near a body of water at the Kingspoint subdivision near Slidell when the gator attacked and tried to pull the boy under.
Police said the gator swallowed the boy's arm. Officials said they retrieved the limb from the alligator's stomach after searching for, catching and cutting the animal. Around 6:40 p.m., a deputy at the scene said the arm had been rushed to Ochsner hospital.
The boy was airlifted to the hospital, according to officials.
Last month, a teen in Okeechobee, Fla., lost an arm in an alligator attack while swimming across a canal. Kasey Edwards, 18, was traversing a canal that empties into Lake Okeechobee when an 11-foot alligator bit him and tried to drag him under.
Is Louisiana most dangerous place to live in the US? Hurricanes, gators, uruly panhandlers, transvestites with pocketknives, the po-lice, vomit on the street (hello New Orleans!), torrential rains daily, etc etc etc....Discuss.
