Oh My Achin’ Head!
A Bloomington, Indiana man was taking a relaxing swim in Guatelmala’s El Rosario National Park Lake when a croc decided to chomp down on his head. Apparently he was doing the backstroke, looking up at the trees and the birds, thinking “this is paradise. It doesn’t get any better than this.”
Think again… seconds later a crocodile’s jaws clamped down on his head and pulled him under water.
Waggoner began punching at the head of the croc, trying to find its eyes. Amazingly, he pulled himself free, shot 10-15 feet up to the surface, and began swimming like there was no tomorrow.
Rangers at the scene were extending hooks and rakes to Waggoner, thinking he had a drowning scare. But as he made it back to the dock, a ranger saw that his scalp was peeled back, like a flap.
Fortunately, there was a hospital nearby with a handful of nurses and a Cuban doctor on duty.
It took 100 stitches to sew his head back together.
Lots more photos here!
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that looks painful…funny how people have a smile on their face when there skulls being stitched up (i’d imagine he’s heavily medicated for such a procedure)
@bolly_eddy: he’s probably smiling because he’s not dead!
it’s funny bc that’s exactly what my husband was doing and thinking right before he got attacked by a shark. Lying on his back in the water, looking up and thinking, ‘this is so relaxing…’ CHOMP.