It’s a good thing someone was brave enough to jump to the rescue! A party guest jumped on the back of an alligator after the animal bit (and didn’t let go) of the hand of its trainer. The animal trainer was injured when she was feeding the alligator during a girl’s birthday party. Lindsay Bull said that she fed the alligator, named Darthgator, ‘hundreds of times in the past,’ but the animal was a little pushy during that time:
At first, she thought the alligator would do a quick bite and release, but then she felt it bite down harder.
"He thrashed and at that point, I realized this is going to be a serious, potentially really big injury," she said.
Bull climbed into the alligator's enclosure and wrapped her legs around him because she wanted to be able to move with him in the water. She feared that if she was standing on the ground when the alligator started to roll, the force might rip her arm off.
Within seconds, Donnie Wiseman shouted for help before scrambling into the tank and jumping on the alligator.
"It was like instant relief. For a minute, I'm there going through this by myself and then all of a sudden, Donnie was up there on the platform yelling at me, 'what do you want me to do?'" Bull said. "I can't imagine that it was easy for him to jump in and jump on his back."
Wiseman showed CNN Salt Lake City affiliate KUTV the scrapes and scratches on his torso from the alligator's scales and said Bull remained calm throughout the entire ordeal.
Image credit: Scale And Tale Utah