英雄出少年: 美国12岁男孩智擒鳄鱼

You don't want to mess with this kid.

你肯定不想找这个孩子的麻烦。

A 12-year-old South Carolina boy is receiving some well-deserved praise after saving his neighborhood from an alligator on the loose, Fox News Insider reported.

福克斯资讯报道，南卡罗莱纳州一12岁男童帮助邻居从一只无人看管的短吻鳄口下逃生，并因此得到了当之无愧的嘉奖。

The boy, Joey Maffo, took matters into his own hands in what can only be described as the world's most most epic beatdown of a reptilian foe when his neighborhood in Hilton Head was in trouble.

小男孩名叫乔伊·马福，住在希尔顿黑德岛。当他的邻居受到鳄鱼攻击时，马福的英勇行为可谓是“全球人鳄抗争史上最具史诗色彩的胜利”。

Like a superhero descending from the skies, Maffo took on the villainous gator after his neighbor, 50-year-old Tamra Shattuck, was attacked while walking her two dogs Wednesday and got a nasty bite on her foot, Island Packet news reported.

据Island Packet 资讯报道，上周三50岁的塔姆拉·夏塔克带着两条狗外出散步时遭到鳄鱼攻击，脚部被严重咬伤。之后马福犹如神兵天降，就此盯上了这只作恶多端的鳄鱼。

Investi-gator Maffo needed only a day -- and the help of his grandpa, Joe Maffo -- to track down the attacker. Four hours after finding its lagoon lair, Joey wrangled in the 8-foot-long, 180-pound critter.

在爷爷乔·马福的帮助下，鳄鱼小猎人马福只花了一天时间就查明了鳄鱼行踪。发现鳄鱼潭边洞穴仅4小时后，小乔伊便和这只8英尺长（约2.4米）、180磅的鳄鱼纠缠扭打起来。

"I went down and just let [Joey] fight it and hold it until it got to 16 feet out where I could reach it," 68-year-old Joe Maffo told ABC News. "I stood at the edge of the water and reached out with a pole and put it around its neck and pulled it up to shore, and then he pulled the rope tight. I got on the gator and he came over and taped it."

68岁的乔·马福告诉美国广播公司资讯网：“我走了过去，但让小乔伊一人和鳄鱼搏斗并设法控制住它，等它离我16英尺远时，我站在水边用棍子勾住鳄鱼脖子，把它拉上了岸，之后小乔伊把绳子绑紧。我坐在鳄鱼身上，他就拿胶带缠住鳄鱼。”

South Carolina law dictates that the alligator must be killed, according to ABC.

美国广播资讯还报道，根据南卡罗莱纳法律，这只被捕获鳄鱼必须被处死。

Wrangling gators is a time-honored right of passage for southern boys, like 10-year-old Michael Dasher, who wrestled and wrangled a 6-foot gator in Florida in 2011.

对美国南部的男孩来说，抓捕鳄鱼是他们成长过程中一项经久不衰的传统特权。2011年，福罗里达州一个10岁男孩迈克尔·达史尔就曾和一只6英尺长的鳄鱼摔跤搏斗。