Slightly?

How do you get a 7-foot-long alligator to let go of your leg?

Poke him in the eye.

That was Diane Blackwood's successful tactic for freeing herself from the creature's jaws during what was supposed to be a quiet stroll with her two dogs in a Florida park last Monday, the St. Petersburg Times reported. Blackwood had stopped along the shores of Sawgrass Lake in St. Petersburg when she saw the water swirling from something below. She called her dogs, who scampered away -- but she tripped and fell.

That's when the alligator got her.

"It was slightly less painful than the blade of a lawn mower hitting your foot," she said.

At first, she told the newspaper, she tried to pry the strong jaws open with her hands. When that didn't work, she aimed for a softer spot -- an eye.

Blackwood drove herself to the hospital, where she was treated for wounds on her calf and thumb. A trapper caught the alligator a day later.