Elderly Woman Survives Alligator Attack While Walking Dog
An elderly woman in Florida was severely injured in an alligator attack while she was out walking her dog near a pond in the North Fort Myers area. Dolores Boppel, 84, described the sudden attack as a “torpedo” and said she barely had time to react. The incident took place around 7 p.m. on a Thursday. Boppel noticed the seven-foot, three-inch alligator eyeing her and instinctively threw her small dog into the air to divert …