One summer afternoon in Gainesville....

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we get a call that 2 hikers have gone a mile and a half out into Paynes Prarie state park and are cut off by a large alligator next to the path that is making menacing sounds when they try to pass. The path is only one car wide and there is no way back because the overlook is 1.5 miles out in the prarie, which is actually a swampy area, filled with LOTS of gators and cotton mouth mocassins, etc. So I get down there with a couple of Alachua County Deputies and the helicopter.