TEHRAN A 77-year-old man with a habit of sleepwalking awoke to find himself up to his armpits in alligators, AP from Florida reported. James Currens wandered behind his home early Monday and stumbled into a pond. He woke up in several feet (more than a meter) of water, his legs stuck in the mud. He said several alligators, some longer than 3 feet (a meter), came around.

Currens said he poked at them with his cane to try to keep them away. A neighbor heard him yelling and called police, who used lights to scare off the gators and freed Currens. The retired maintenance supervisor suffered only minor cuts on his legs and arms from the fall.