A teenager from Florida was enjoying an afternoon playing on a rope swing in Seminole County. The day took a bizarre twist, or roll if you may, when the teen kicked an underwater log that turned out to be an alligator, a very unhappy alligator.

In the report from WFTV, witnesses said the gator had the 17-year-old's head in its jaws.

"We were both swinging off the rope swings, and then me and him started floating down the river," said witness Taylor Rizza.

Rizza said Monday was a start to a common afternoon for the teens at a swimming hole in the Little Big Econ State Forest.

But Rizza's friend, 17-year-old Andrew Hudson, thought he kicked a log in the water, but he was mistaken.



Mark O'Shea, who also witnessed the attack says it was "Nine-to-10-feet," and it "just came from behind and jerked him under. He went under and started freaking out, and I saw him come halfway up to the shore. He had blood from the top of his head all the way down and I told him to take his shorts off, put them on top of his head to stop the bleeding."

O'Shea said he ran for help at a forestry office about a half-mile away.

The gator may have only let go after Hudson fought back.

"He kicked and started punching the gator. That's what he told me [happened] when he was under the water," said O'Shea.