Posted on 08/19/2007 3:01:32 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Hiding from crocs up a tree (Video)
An Australian cattle rancher spent seven days up a tree looking down into the jaws of two hungry crocodiles after falling off his horse and ending up in a reptile-infested swamp -
Link to:
http://www.mediaplayer.telegraph.co.uk/?item=BFD1C014-2A0A-4D2F-BA2B-BB93EFF9403E
What happened to his horse?
That was my very first thought too!
just a guess, but the horse probably found its way back home, which prompted the search.
I was wondering the same thing.
The rancher probably didn’t know since he was knocked unconscious. It would figure that the horse either ran away or entered into the food chain.
My best guess is that the horse got away because if those crocs made a meal out of him, the crocs would have been too full to care about the rancher in the tree.
Lucky dude!
Glad to hear he’s safe. He used his head!
That horse will have some explainin’ to do when his owner gets to the barn.
Got a feeling that horse will be French cuisine when he finds ir.
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WHo cares? The real story here is that the Aussies are UNARMED due to their government being a bunch of wussies. Liberals make the people in the outback dependent on snuff tin lids and maybe a sharp stick for defense/rescue.
A small caliber pistol would have made short work of those
crockagators or allidiles......
BANG
http://goaustralia.about.com/b/a/257563.htm
The Queensland man, a former Territorian, was said to be riding in rough terrain near Coen in far north Queensland when his horse stumbled and he was knocked unconscious. He managed to remain on horseback only to realise, on coming to, that he had been led into crocodile-infested swampland...
(another version. every article I read has a slightly different story.)
Small caliber pistol, 20+ foot, 2000+ pound saltwater crocodile.
Doesn’t sound like that short a work to me.
It’s called accuracy.
If you are up a tree 8’ above the crockagator, then with an accurate pistol you pop him between the eyes.
I’ve put lots of alligators to rest with a .22 mag. Size does not matter. Their brain pan is very small.
The point was that small caliber pistols, or is it all pistols are outlawed in Australia.
Perhaps.
But for him to walk out, he’d have to get down from the tree, wouldn’t he?
Any pistol might be problematic for a man on foot faced with a charging 20 foot crocodile.
I think I’d want a 50 caliber machine gun. :)
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