Man Ignores 'No Swimming' Sign In A Lake That Has An Alligator Gets Eaten Alive

A 28 year old man, Tommie Woodward, over looks an alligator threat sign that read 'no swimming', around a Texas bayou gets killed in an alligator attack. 
 Texan investigators have called this the first recorded fatal alligator attack in the state.

A “No swimming, alligators” sign had been posted at Burkark’s Marina after its owner had spotted a 10-ft alligator in the body of water his establishment overlooks.

Rodney Price, the Justice of the Peace in Orange County told local news station KDFM that Woodward had shouted “[blank] the alligators” before he leaped into the water, followed by an unidentified woman, and almost immediately called for help.

Orange County Police found his Woodward’s body some hours later. The woman is reportedly unharmed.

Marina employee Michelle Wright told KDFM that she pleaded with Woodward not to enter the water on Friday night.

“Please do not go swimming, there’s a bigger alligator out here. Just please stay out of the water,” Wright said she told Woodward.

Wright said soon afterwards she heard a woman screaming, “An alligator’s got him!” She described grabbing a torch to try and see Woodward and saw his body floating faced-down in the water before it was dragged under by the alligator.

The marina’s owner of 50 years, Allen Burkart, 82, told the Houston Chronicle: “He went under one time, then he hollered at [the woman] to get out of the water.

“Then he pulled him down the second time and that was it. I’ve been here all my life and this is the first time something like this has happened – I’m still in shock.”