No word on the crocodile.
Posted on 08/08/2007 11:24:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A crocodile survived a fall from the 12th floor of a block of flats in Russia after making an escape bid through a window, emergency services said on Wednesday.
Diving out of the window has become a habit for the crocodile, called Khenar, with concerned neighbours saying it was the third time he had used that method to flee, Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reported.
The crocodile lost one tooth in the latest fall but was otherwise unscathed, said a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry in the Nizhny Novgorod region of central Russia.
"It seems the owner was not at home when the crocodile came out of the window," she said.
Emergency services put the crocodile in a local aquarium to recover from his fall. Within a few hours his concerned owner came to pick him up and the crocodile was last seen lying on the back seat of his owner's car.
Um.............
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Hi EggS
It’s one of those that ya kind of go, Huh?
The crocodile lives in a 12th floor apartment.
Why is he living in a 12th Floor apartment?
This is normal in Russia????
Oh, yeah. Like you’ve never been hit by a flying crocodile before...
The owner can’t seem to contain this falling object, and they give it /back/ to him?
Just make some boots out of the poor thing.
Really. Where to begin?
LOL!
No word on the crocodile.
“There no need to fear - UNDERKROC ees here!”
In the eternal battle of man versus crocodile, I am rooting for the crocodile in this one.
By the way, if the croc can get out the window that easily, I truly am hoping the owner does not have any kids.
The pet ownership laws in Moscow are very lax, it seems. if they have any at all.
Ivan better hurry up and make soup out of his pet before he gets away again.
This strikes me as a situation where more government regulation might be a good idea.
Me too. I root for the smarter party in a conflict. In this case that would appear to be the crocodile (even though it's got a single digit IQ).
By the way, if the croc can get out the window that easily, I truly am hoping the owner does not have any kids.
More to the point, I hope the owner NEVER had any kids. Because if he had kids and doesn't anymore, it's not hard to figure out what happened to them.
Oh yeah. I've been to Ukraine a handful of times. You'll see people hanging out at some of the more touristy places with a small zooful of critters, ready to have your picture taken with them for a few Grivnas.
It still fits in the backseat of his car. but soon, that idea may be on the menu
I would guess that the terminal velocity of a crocodile must be very low or it would have been crocodile borscht.
There’s 2 ways that I don’t want to go to meet my maker, burning to death or being eaten by some kind of non human creature (no cracks, wiseguys).
Hopefully I will go peacefully surrounded by empty wine and champagne bottles, cheese platters, lobster shells, beef bones, butter wrappers, empty ice cream containers, nice music and a beautiful naked woman. I’m not gonna eat my veggies except various recipes of potatoes. Oh, and a large empty bacon wrapper.
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