Miami A Florida man was hospitalised after an alligator bit off his hand and forearm as he sought to elude authorities by running into a lake, police said on May 13. Jessie Kingsinger, 21, was missing three-quarters of his left arm when he crawled out of the lake in a wooded area behind an apartment complex, said Ser-geant Gary Gross, a spokesman for the Lakeland Police Department. -Reuters