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<blockquote data-quote="WPLG" data-source="post: 25706" data-attributes="member: 158">A Florida photographer recently got a close-up look at the inside of a gator’s mouth in Ochopee after the hungry animal chomped on his GoPro camera.Luckily, the reptile did not like the taste.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/bobby.wummer" target="_blank">Photographer Bobby Wummer</a> posted the video to Facebook, and luckily his camera only had minor damage.“The backstory is: never put your GoPro on a stick and try to get a close-up video of an alligator,” Wummer wrote. “As I dangled the GoPro over the water to entice the gator to come closer and closer, I didn’t know that he would come that close so fast!”Wummer said he was holding the GoPro above the gator with a stick, making it appear that he was in the water.“I was not able to pull the camera away fast enough and the alligator grabbed it. At which point I did not fight or play tug of war with the gator,” he wrote. “I allowed him to just let it go as he knew it was not food.”<a href="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/05/02/gator-gets-up-close-with-gopro-camera-in-southwest-florida/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WPLG, post: 25706, member: 158"] A Florida photographer recently got a close-up look at the inside of a gator’s mouth in Ochopee after the hungry animal chomped on his GoPro camera. Luckily, the reptile did not like the taste. [URL='https://www.facebook.com/bobby.wummer']Photographer Bobby Wummer[/URL] posted the video to Facebook, and luckily his camera only had minor damage. “The backstory is: never put your GoPro on a stick and try to get a close-up video of an alligator,” Wummer wrote. “As I dangled the GoPro over the water to entice the gator to come closer and closer, I didn’t know that he would come that close so fast!” Wummer said he was holding the GoPro above the gator with a stick, making it appear that he was in the water. “I was not able to pull the camera away fast enough and the alligator grabbed it. At which point I did not fight or play tug of war with the gator,” he wrote. “I allowed him to just let it go as he knew it was not food.” [url="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/05/02/gator-gets-up-close-with-gopro-camera-in-southwest-florida/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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