http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25944305/

SLIDELL, La. - An alligator has bitten off an 11-year-old boy’s arm in Louisiana, sheriff's deputies say.

Devin Funck was playing in a neighborhood pond in a subdivision about 20 miles northeast of New Orleans when the alligator pulled him under, deputies say. The alligator was described as between 10 and 12 feet long.

Relatives told The Times-Picayune that he managed to free himself. He was airlifted to a hospital, where his condition was not available.

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Note from Bam~ When they say, "that he managed to free himself" do they mean after his arm was gone that the rest of him was no longer in the gator's mouth?

Crikey..should imagine when his arm was gone

Ouch! But lucky to get away with his life.