iguana in a 30-minute crazed attack claimed it was self-defence.PJ Nilaja Patterson, 43, tried to dodge animal cruelty charges which could land him five years behind bars, by becoming potentially the first defendant in Florida to invoke the Stand Your Ground law against an animal.CCTV footage outside Lake Worth Utilities in Palm Beach, Florida caught the 43-year-old launch a tirade of savage abuse lasting half an hour on September 2.The court has not published the video publicly.
Backed by his legal team, Patterson claimed that the animal bit him first and needed 22 staples to treat the wound which he feared could have killed him with its 'poison', Daily Mail reports.
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