This was sent in by an Fort Lauderdale ScaryPlace reader who credits Reuters.
A human arm that appeared to have been bitten by an
alligator was found in a canal west of Fort Lauderdale, sheriff's deputies said
on Monday.
The raggedly severed right arm was found on Sunday and
was that of an adult male who apparently did not survive, said Broward County
Sheriff's spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright. "We're sure if they survived
and they're missing a right arm, they would have come forward by now,"
she said. "Detectives have no idea what happened with this body part, whether
it was some sort of accident and the person was eaten by an alligator and this
is what's left."
Investigators took fingerprints from the hand.
Alligator attacks have become more common in Florida
as its burgeoning human population pushes development farther into the reptiles'
traditional swampy
habitat. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has recorded
289 alligator attacks on humans, 11 of them fatal, since it began keeping records
in 1948. Six people have been attacked by alligators in the last three months,
two of them fatally.
Whoever lost an arm, please raise your right hand to claim it...