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One Huge Crocodile
Bruce R. Dwyer Fort Sill, OK ^ | January 25, 2005 | Calpernia

Posted on 01/25/2005 8:50:25 AM PST by Calpernia

This crocodile was on the beach in front of the Petroleum club, Plage Sportive in Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo) . 21 FT long, 4,500 lbs, around 80 years old minimum.

Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to catch animals.

For the past few months in some villages close to Pointe Noire people were complaining that some people in their villages have been disappearing, could be this crocodile?

This crocodile was killed by the army last Sunday at 3:00 pm, currently he is in the freezer at the Azur hotel.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: africa; animalrights; congo; crikey; crocodile; republicofcongo
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1 posted on 01/25/2005 8:50:25 AM PST by Calpernia
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To: farmfriend; HairOfTheDog

General interest, animal ping


2 posted on 01/25/2005 8:51:10 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

What a croc!


3 posted on 01/25/2005 8:52:00 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: Calpernia

Damn that's a big'un.


5 posted on 01/25/2005 8:54:03 AM PST by Dissident Aggressor
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To: Calpernia
Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to catch animals.

Well, the poor thing was getting old and it was harder to feed himself. And PETA would certainly have approved his change in diet.

6 posted on 01/25/2005 8:55:39 AM PST by xJones
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To: Calpernia

Looks like a dinosaur! Yikes!


7 posted on 01/25/2005 8:58:18 AM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: xJones

I think PETA might try to introduce him to Tofu.

Ever see their new food lines they promote for animas? Yogurt bits, peanut butter snacks and tofu junk?

Unreal.


8 posted on 01/25/2005 8:58:43 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: diamond6

Yes it does!

I can't even imagine what a roar from that thing would sound like.


9 posted on 01/25/2005 8:59:25 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

Wow... he was huge... and old. It's a shame to kill him really.... He's like the big old fish in "On Golden Pond"... He's gotten so big it'd be a shame to kill him. He'd have been a great sight at a zoo... and perhaps we could have learned exactly how long he could have lived.


10 posted on 01/25/2005 8:59:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

How big do these animals get?


11 posted on 01/25/2005 9:00:27 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: diamond6

nah, looks like my next pair of shoes........and lots of them


12 posted on 01/25/2005 9:00:56 AM PST by vin-one (REMEMBER the WTC !!!!!!!!)
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To: Calpernia

Crikey! Look at the size of this bloke!


13 posted on 01/25/2005 9:02:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Calpernia; RedBloodedAmerican; yarddog

We're gonna need a bigger boat.


14 posted on 01/25/2005 9:02:38 AM PST by stainlessbanner (Southern powder and Southern steel)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

It looks like Schnappi ate some people this time.


15 posted on 01/25/2005 9:02:42 AM PST by SilentServiceCPOWife (Schni schna schnappi, schnappi, schnappi, schnapp!)
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To: Calpernia
How big do these animals get?

Not sure we know.... I think it would have been cool to keep him and see!

16 posted on 01/25/2005 9:07:24 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: SilentServiceCPOWife

Damned schnappi! lol, thanks!


17 posted on 01/25/2005 9:10:53 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Calpernia

Didn't they make a movie about a monster gator, once?


18 posted on 01/25/2005 9:11:19 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: sure_fine

Monster croc ping!


19 posted on 01/25/2005 9:12:49 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: Calpernia
CRIKEY!
Had to say that. That is a big bastard of a croc, we have a few of those buggers here in Australia.
PETA, aren't they the mob trying to screw Australian sheep farmers?
Should have fed PETA to the croc, better still get them to have a nice swim in one of Australia's crocodile infested lakes. hmmmmmmm Just tell them its Australia's fountain of youth. heheheheheheheeeeee
20 posted on 01/25/2005 9:13:29 AM PST by Bart Ristuccia
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