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Fla. Cruiser Attacked By Alligator

Nov. 5--Terry Ashe's unofficial initial report could have just said that his Tampa police cruiser's left bumper was bitten by an alligator. That alone would have been enough to get a chuckle. But Ashe told the whole painful saga with literary flair. The attack began Oct. 27 as he neared his Pasco County home. "As I was driving down the single lane, dirt road, adjacent to an old cemetery, I observed a large, menacing dark object lying in the road obstructing my right of way," wrote Ashe, a 13-year police veteran. "With rain pouring down, mist and fog shrouding my vision, large oak trees laden with Spanish moss hanging down around my vehicle, I was uncertain as to what lay in my path.

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