Posted on 06/09/2014 6:48:33 PM PDT by Enterprise
When a man went to the side of his boat to empty a bucket at Australia's Kakadu National Park on Saturday, he was attacked by what police say was a 15.5-foot-long crocodile and vanished, his wife, son, and daughter-in-law unable to save him. Now, the 62-year-old's remains may have been found inside a crocodile. Two of the reptiles were shot yesterday about a mile from the site of the encounter, the AAP reports via the Sydney Morning Herald. "A quantity of human remains was recovered" from one, say police. They have yet to be IDed.
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I could believe it. In the early days of the country, some spectacular catches were made of various beasts because they had been relatively unmolested and allowed to grow to huge sizes.
LOL - Feets don’t fail me now.
I had a professor tell the class that the Japanese Oil workers in the Amazon area were losing so many men to crocs that they bought up huge supplies of dynamite and just went along the swamps blowing everything up.
He said they used so much dynamite that there was a world wide shortage for several years.
Far as I’m concerned that’s the only use for these disgusting creatures - purses, shoes, belts.
Years ago I was at a boat race in Louisana, maybe Morgan City, and there was an alligator hanging out and no one really paid much attention to him. I couldn’t believe it! Another reason to like the west coast - especially the Pacific northwest, we’re far less likely to get eaten in a surprise attack by some creature.
Wow!
It’s the same with some of the old pictures of sturgeons pulled from the Snake River with mule teams. Monsters, but at least gentle monsters.
Ever had fired gator tail (on a stick)?
We had a pretty good sized gator come walking up onto Holden Beach out of the surf here in North Carolina this past year. Apparently it had been pulled through an inlet when the tide went out. Bet those were some panicked beachgoers. I wouldn’t have been too pleased, myself.
I think that's only true for the Australian varieties. American crocs tend to be timid.
I’d read that story before, sort of a bad day for the Japanese Imperial Army....
I think there is also a record from one of the Jap survivors.
Said they tried climbing in the trees and the crocs jumped up and picked them off.
I grew up in North Florida in the 60’s and we used to swim in the lake with gators. They weren’t that big and they never bothered us. I was more afraid of stepping on a rattlesnake when Coon hunting at night.
Oh oh here she comes (she’a man-eater)
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We have tools, one of the, no-el blasting caps work very well on reptiles...
I wonder if some of them were thinking that this stuff about dying for the Emperor was a croc.
Unbelievable until you are able to contrast it with a human.
Yep, one of those “heavy rotation” songs from back when MTV only did music videos.
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Swamps all along the southeastern coast of the US have been made into nature preserves and parks, with elevated boardwalks so people can walk through and see the unique flora and fauna, among them alligators. There are alligators in NC, but their habitat doesn’t extend very far inland, so I didn’t grow up accustomed to seeing them. First time I walked through a coastal swamp on one of those boardwalks, I was disappointed not to see any gators, or so I thought. They lay motionless, often mud covered, and look very much like roots, cypress knees and fallen logs. I didn’t believe they were real, thought they were tourist props or something. Tossed a penny at one and it caught it, snap. I realized then that the things could be on that boardwalk fairly easily, if they cared to do so. So, timid might not be the right word.
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