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Komodo Dragon Attacks Ranger In Island Hut
Sky News ^
| February 25, 2009
Posted on 02/25/2009 11:32:52 AM PST by george76
A park ranger in Indonesia needed more than 30 stitches after he was attacked by a komodo dragon.
The giant reptile managed to climb into a hut where 46-year-old Main was sitting at his desk.
The attack happened on Rinca, one of three islands where the world's largest lizard can be found in the wild.
He fled out a window as colleagues rushed to his aid, using wooden sticks to drive the lizard out of the hut.
He suffered received lacerations to a hand and foot.
"I'm lucky I survived," Main said from his hospital bed on nearby Bali island.
In 2007, an eight-year-old boy was killed on Komodo island -
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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dragon; komodo; komododragon
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:32:52 AM PST
by
george76
To: george76
I hope they thoroughly cleaned the wound. Nasty bites.
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:36:28 AM PST
by
BGHater
(Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
To: BGHater
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:40:19 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Dirtier mouth than Barney Frank.
To: SWAMPSNIPER; girlangler; jazusamo; Grammy; Al Gator
Not a gator, but...
.
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:44:30 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Dirty Mouth?
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:45:03 AM PST
by
lormand
(Liberals - Evil Primates)
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:45:17 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Left the door open.. DUUUUGH!..
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:45:23 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: george76
A Komodo dragon bit my sister.
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:45:35 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(The mind is its own place, and in itself, Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:47:08 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: CholeraJoe
"A Komodo dragon bit my sister"
SORRY.
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:50:12 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
WTF? Looks like he has been playing the “Mouse Organ”!
/Python reference
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posted on
02/25/2009 11:52:40 AM PST
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: freedomlover
He may be premature in saying he survived this attack.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:05:06 PM PST
by
IGOTMINE
(1911s FOREVER!)
To: BGHater
I hope they thoroughly cleaned the wound. Nasty bites.Q: What do you call a woman who's been bitten on the leg by a Komodo Dragon?
A: Peg.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:11:49 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: CholeraJoe
I once shot a Komodo dragon in my pajamas. Not sure why he put my pajamas on! ;^)
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:12:44 PM PST
by
mallardx
To: IGOTMINE
Exactly. They bite their prey, then wait for them to die of infection.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:15:53 PM PST
by
patton
(America is born in Iceland, and dies in California)
To: george76
I'm lucky I survivedWhere is the Lord of the obvious?
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