United ArtistsIn 1998, 77 year old James Currens fell asleep in his bed at home in Palm Harbor, Florida and woke up a little way away from his house, knee-deep in water and being attacked by alligators. Not the most soothing alarm call for a septuagenarian. Luckily, poor Mr. Currens had his cane with him, and fended the beasties off until help arrived. The police were forced to flash lights at the gators until they decided to stop investigating this strange addition to their feeding grounds and let him escape. In fairness, these werent the giant man-eating monsters from prehistory that were familiar with from the movies. The biggest was probably around three foot long, or about the size of a small-ish dog. That being said, just imagine youd woken up in two feet of water being snapped at by miniature dinosaurs