Posted on 04/11/2007 10:57:53 AM PDT by dead
Police in Taiwan were forced to shoot a crocodile after it bit off the arm of the zoo veterinarian treating it, an official said on Wednesday.
Dramatic television footage showed a police officer firing on the animal to wrest the severed limb from its jaws.
A vet's torn arm in the jaws of a crocodile at a zoo in southern Taiwan.
Photo: AFP
Chang Po-yu, 38, from the southern Kaohsiung city's Shou Shan Zoo, was injecting the sick crocodile with anaesthetic when it attacked him.
He was said to be in a stable condition after being rushed to hospital for an emergency operation to re-attach his arm, an local official said, although it was not immediately clear whether Chang would recover.
AFP
Dont they normally duct tape the mouth closed?..Yes, but the vet was smoking a cigar at the time.
The Vet is going to be all right now.
They were saving the duct tape to reattach the arm.
What is the matter with people??
I’m not buying that photo either...
photo: AFP = Agence France-Presse
DANGER QUILL ROBINSON!! DANGER!!
hmmmmm....is that photoshopped?
How so - fake?
Me either. I think it's a croc(k).
WOnder who will be the first to photoshop something in there.....
This is why you use tranquilizers.
The guy frankly had it coming.
Ouch.
To be truthfull that photo looks to be photoshopped. Notice that the crock is holding the arm in front of where it was severed.
Well, Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by himself in the swamp.
He hunted alligator for a livin'
Just knock 'em in the head with a stump.
The Lousisana law gonna get you, Amos!
It ain't legal huntin' alligator down in the swamp, boy!
Well, everybody blamed his old man
For makin' him mean as a snake.
When Amos Moses was a boy,
His Daddy would use his for alligator bait.
Tie a rope around his waist and throw him in the swamp!
About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana
Lived a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna.
Well, they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries.
Named him after a man of the cloth,
Called him Amos Moses.
Now all the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man.
He could trap the biggest,
The meanest alligator,
And just use one hand.
That's all he got left cuz the alligator bit it!
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!
Well, the Sheriff got wind that Amos
Was in the swamp tracking alligator skin.
So he snuck in the swamp, gonna get the boy.
But he never come out again.
Well, I wonder where the Louisiana Sheriff went to?
You can sure get lost in the Louisiana Bayou!
About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana
Lived a cat called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna.
Well, they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries.
Named him after a man of the cloth,
Called him Amos Moses.
Set out on 'em Amos.
Make it count, Son!
He might have just grabbed and yanked, tearing the arm off at the elbow joint rather than severing it.
Kinda sorry I clicked this.
I once hired a contractor to build an addition to my house. When he started a sentence with, "I'm going to tell you the truth...." - he lied.
Nothing personal, eastforker; just a true story that always comes to mind when someone starts like that. :)
should have given that croc some finger food before
They always do after a good lunch!
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