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Crocodile clears Darwin swimming pool A one-metre salt water crocodile has been found swimming in a public pool in Palmerston, south of Darwin. Swimmers discovered the young male saltie lurking amongst them at Palmerston Leisure Centre's olympic-size pool this morning. After a quick exodus from the water, police and Parks and Wildlife staff were called in. Clay Smith, from the parks service, says the crocodile was placid and seemed in poor health, making him easier to catch. Mr Smith says swimmers were not in much danger. "He'd be dangerous if you grabbed him, he might cause some lacerations in your...

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.

Ananova: 'Croc saved me from tsunami' A Sri Lankan pensioner claims he was saved from the tsunami by a crocodile which nudged him back to shore. Upali Gunasekera says the estuarine crocodile was one which regularly visited the garden of his house in Matara. Mr Gunasekera was strolling in the garden, which overlooks a river and the sea, when the tsunami struck and was washed away. He clutched a floating stool with one hand and a chair with the other and managed to stay afloat until a wave knocked them from his grip. That was when he saw what he...

GREENWICH, Conn. -- A Greenwich man says in a $30 million lawsuit against town police that officers violated his constitutional rights when they arrested him for allegedly keeping a crocodile in his home. Gary Ryder, 50, filed the lawsuit earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Hartford, claiming police entered his home without a warrant and later attempted to blackmail him by saying they had photographs of the reptile in his home. Ryder was charged in September with illegal possession of a reptile and risk of injury to a minor. His case is pending. Police Chief James Walters said...

  Survivor ... Drewe Ramsden escaped crocodile attack   Giant croc had me by the head From FRANK THORNE in Sydney A SHAKEN lad told yesterday how a frenzied crocodile gripped his head in its jaws. Drewe Ramsden, 18, had just bent down to freshen his face in a river when the beast pounced. The attack happened in a basin named Lake Placid — ironically the name of a Hollywood movie about a man-eating croc. The teenager, who was drinking with pals at night in Cairns, Australia, did not notice as the 8ft crocodile swept towards him, pushing a...

Lying on a hospital bed with a bandaged leg and arm, devastated nine-year-old Siyabonga Msomi cannot help but remember how his best friend died while rescuing him from the jaws of a crocodile. He owes his life to brave Themba Nhlebela, 10, who died when the crocodile turned on him after he rescued Siyabonga from the crocodile’s grip. The boys were swimming in the Nseleni River in the Ndlov’yangena area in Mpevu near Empangeni. Recovering from the tragedy at Ngwelezane Hospital in Empangeni, Msomi told how he, Nhlebela and their friends had been sent home on Tuesday last week,...

BRISBANE, Australia - Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin took his month-old son to his first croc feeding on Friday, offering the reptile a chicken with one hand and holding the baby in the other. With a capacity crowd looking on, Irwin dangled a dead chicken before the 13-foot crocodile named Murray, which snapped up the offering. Irwin's tiny son Bob looked on from his other arm. "He's one-month-old, so it's about time Bob got out there and did his first croc demo," the Australian celebrity told the crowd at his Australian Zoo. Irwin's wife Terri, who gave birth to her second...

'Crikey,' Steve Irwin's baby in a croc shocker - Christine Caulfield - 03jan04 STEVE Irwin sparked outrage yesterday when he held his baby son a metre from the mouth of a crocodile at his Queensland zoo. Child advocates branded the Crocodile Hunter reckless for holding one-month-old Bob while feeding the giant crocodile a dead chicken. Wife Terri looked on as Irwin then "walked" Bob to the crocodile pool at his Sunshine Coast wildlife park as the 4m reptile, named Murray, lurked nearby. Irwin defended the stunt, saying the baby was never in danger. "This kid has to grow up to...

An Australian crocodile expert failed on his first night Friday to catch a rouge croc that has outwitted Hong Kong officials for almost two weeks. Croc hunter John Lever told reporters he caught glimpses of the 1.2-metre reptile from his small boat and even touched it with his hand before the beast disappeared in a murky creek. The Australian spent more than three hours sitting in the boat and scouring the creek with a light before deciding to give it up for the night. The crocodile has become a local media sensation after Hong Kong officials tried in vain to...

Crocodile attacks hunter in Australia The Associated Press 11/2/2003, 10:43 p.m. ET DARWIN, Australia (AP) — A 10-foot saltwater crocodile attacked a hunter in the Australian Outback and clamped its jaws around his leg, releasing him only after the man's aunt punched the reptile in the snout, according to a report Monday. The victim, 19-year-old Manuel Pascoe, was returning from hunting geese Saturday night when the crocodile, possibly attracted by blood from the dead birds, lunged from a creek and tried to drag the man into the water, The Northern Territory News reported. Other members of the hunting party grabbed...

SPOKANE – Spokane students are mourning after they learned one of their classmates was killed by a crocodile. Katy Reeves, a 17-year-old Spokane student, was attacked while vacationing in Zimbabwe with her family at Mana Pools National Park. Reeves was with her parents and a sister when the attack happened. No details were immediately available, but Peter Witherspoon, a family friend, said Jack Reeves, the girl’s father, briefly called over a satellite phone and asked him to break the news to their other two daughters who had remained in Spokane. Katy Reeves was going to start her senior year at...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - A 28-year-old Panamanian accused of killing a judge was eaten by a crocodile as he swam across a river after escaping from prison, police said on Thursday. Oswaldo Martinez, accused of murdering judge Harmodio Mariscal on June 5 during a failed robbery in Panama City, was captured last week by police after fleeing to neighboring Costa Rica. After being held in custody in Costa Rica, Martinez broke out of jail at the weekend and was aiming to reenter Panama through the dense jungle that divides the two Central American countries. Martinez was eaten alive by the...