Woman Killed After Leaping Into Thai Crocodile Pit

Yahoo News ^ | Sun Aug 11, 2:09 PM ET | Reuters

[decimon]

Woman Killed After Leaping Into Thai Crocodile Pit Sun Aug 11, 2:09 PM ET

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai woman killed herself by jumping into a pit of more than 100 crocodiles, shocking crowds of onlookers at a Bangkok reptile farm on Sunday.

The woman, 40, climbed a 6-foot-high fence and jumped into a concrete enclosure at the Famut Prakarn Crocodile Farm on the outskirts of the Thai capital, a tour guide who witnessed the event said.

A crocodile dragged the woman into a pond and several animals swarmed over and tore her body apart.

"She did not cry or scream when she was bitten," Tanet Virayaporn, the tour guide, told Reuters. "It happened so quickly. Nobody could do anything."

Police said the woman had left a suicide note in which she complained about her husband and apologized to family members.

Hundreds of people were visiting the crocodile farm, a popular tourist attraction, when the woman committed suicide.

[decimon]

This was better than living with her husband.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Geez - that's gotta hurt.......I always thought if I was going to off myself I'd do it by shopping - you know the old "shop til ya drop" suicide.........

[decimon]

Geez - that's gotta hurt.......I always thought if I was going to off myself I'd do it by shopping - you know the old "shop til ya drop" suicide.....

If you jump into some alligators it will be in the form of boots? :-)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Yes, with a matching purse.........!

[APBaer]

No, No, lady!

It's up to yer ass in alligators
Not up to the Thai's Crocodiles

[Washington-Husky]

Try 'Death by chocolate' - at least you'll die happy!

[Washington-Husky]

The woman, 40, climbed a 6-foot-high fence and jumped into a concrete enclosure at the Famut Prakarn Crocodile Farm.....

You see?? Turning 40's a bitch, I tell ya'!

[socal_parrot]

Croc-icide!

[decimon]

Guess this is why Texasgirl moved to PA. Everything but hippos in the pool.

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Alligators Lurk at Texas High School over Summer
Fri Aug 9,11:15 AM ET

DALLAS (Reuters) - Nature ran amok at a Dallas high school over summer vacation, bringing alligators, poisonous snakes and bobcats to campus grounds, school officials said on Thursday.



Beavers apparently dammed up a stream flowing near A. Maceo Smith High School, creating a 15-acre (6 hectare) swamp that became home to two alligators that moved in while classes were out for the summer.

Dallas animal control supervisor Tim Hawkins told reporters that he has seen two alligators, about four feet to six feet long, in the swamp.

Principal Dwain Govan asked animal control to remove the alligators from the school's back yard, so they stay off of the school's football and softball fields. Heavy rains over the summer caused the swamp to encroach on the fields.

"We have asked the city to put up some fencing to make sure that the alligators do not come up on to our practice fields," he said.

The fences will be up before classes start at month's end. But those students who have returned early for extracurricular activities, such as band member Likiesha Edwards, found something more than the return of classes to worry about.

"I think it's very dangerous for football players and people like me in the band, to go out there and practice," she told reporters.

Hawkins said that besides the gators, the swamp is home to poisonous water snakes, bobcats, coyotes, gray foxes, raccoons, beavers, possums and a rookery of egrets.

Dallas Independent School District spokesman Donald Claxton said hunters are searching the swamp for the gators, while others will set up snake traps, he said.

Animal control officials said they did not know where the alligators, rarely found in north Texas, came from.

[APBaer]

"Guess this is why Texasgirl moved to PA. Everything but hippos in the pool."

Then I hope a rogue genetically modified 10 foot tall groundhog doesn't get her.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I like the idea of death by chocolate.....you're right, I can think of worse ways to go..........

And that "turning 40 is a bitch comment"..... I'll let you know years from now when I turn 40..........(did you believe that? lol)

[Washington-Husky]

Oh, I know, sugah.... I was only speaking generically.... I mean, you're still only 23..... right?? right??? ;)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

23.......... uh, yea, that's the ticket........

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Let's get serious here.....all those animals could disrupt football workouts....... that is a no-no in Texas..........

[Cagey]

I always thought if I was going to off myself I'd do it by shopping - you know the old "shop til ya drop" suicide.........

And don't forget all those Crocodile tears you shed when the credit card bill comes.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Crocodile tears......yes, true......maybe I better stay home and be a good girl.....