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Man Snatched From Boat by 16-Foot Crocodile
Newser ^ | June 9, 2014 | Matt Cantor

Posted on 06/09/2014 6:48:33 PM PDT by Enterprise

When a man went to the side of his boat to empty a bucket at Australia's Kakadu National Park on Saturday, he was attacked by what police say was a 15.5-foot-long crocodile and vanished, his wife, son, and daughter-in-law unable to save him. Now, the 62-year-old's remains may have been found inside a crocodile. Two of the reptiles were shot yesterday about a mile from the site of the encounter, the AAP reports via the Sydney Morning Herald. "A quantity of human remains was recovered" from one, say police. They have yet to be IDed.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alligators; australia; boating; croc; crocodiles; gators; japanese; remree; river; soldiers
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To: Resettozero

Don’t play in a croc’s kitchen.


61 posted on 06/09/2014 8:30:54 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Enterprise

Lucky for the crocs they weren’t Chinese or they would have been hungry again in an hour.


62 posted on 06/09/2014 8:33:44 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

Sometimes you just have to settle for what’s on the menu.


63 posted on 06/09/2014 8:36:02 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: All

Be aware of the Florida Hybrid CrocaGator. It has Croc head on one end and a gator head on the other. they will eat any and everything they can get to.
The have no rear end which makes them meaner than H3ll!


64 posted on 06/09/2014 8:38:19 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: Enterprise

My father was in New Guinea in WWII. He talked about a lot of things. Swimming in the rivers was evidently a common way to cool off. No mention of crocodilians. I suspect so many armed men made quick work of the population before he got there. They taste like chicken, don’t they?


65 posted on 06/09/2014 8:43:48 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: dowcaet
"If they ever discover a species of carnivorous kangaroos or flesh eating koalas..."

You mean rediscover...

66 posted on 06/09/2014 8:59:30 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Resettozero

There is. Boat is the croc word for buffet table.


67 posted on 06/09/2014 9:31:01 PM PDT by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: eartrumpet

Reminds me of the photos of alligator gar on the White River in 1950s Arkansas. Hook them, pull them in and shoot them in the head with a .38.

And I remember tales of the drowned child. Divers went down to find the body and came up quickly when they found the body in the mouth of a HUGE catfish. They would not go down again.


68 posted on 06/09/2014 10:00:47 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: GOYAKLA

You ever heard the call of the milermore bird in the swamps?


69 posted on 06/09/2014 10:03:23 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The lesson is that practically everything in Australia can kill you and may even eat you.

I hunted Southwest Texas and everything that grows there will make you bleed.

70 posted on 06/09/2014 10:05:05 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Boogieman

Rat-kangaroo. Snort!

I’m more afraid of the Sumatran Rat Monkey.


71 posted on 06/09/2014 10:06:38 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I never had it on a stick but I have had it otherwise. When I lived in Florida, I use to fish Bass tournaments all over the state and we had a restaurant that was approved to sell gator meat ( that was during the time they were on the endangered list ). It was good , nothing exceptional but tasty.


72 posted on 06/09/2014 10:16:22 PM PDT by depenzz ("Obama so loved the poor , he created millions more")
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To: Resettozero

I don’t know about that. I bought them a bunch of Jet Skis.


73 posted on 06/09/2014 10:19:43 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: IMR 4350

Good crocs


74 posted on 06/09/2014 10:40:28 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Born to Conserve
"They taste like chicken, don’t they?"

I don't know. Maybe There's some FReepers who have had croc meat and could weigh in here.

75 posted on 06/10/2014 12:54:00 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: pajama pundit

Me too in south Mississippi as a boy....Matthews brake setting open water submerged duck blinds in summer

The Pearl waterskiing upriver from Jackson

Lake Bruin Louisiana where we had a lake house

Lots more gators now.....exponentially....we saw them rarely 40 years ago

I don’t purposely swim in gator territory without knowing pretty much where they hang

But even in Florida I swam the Myakka like nobody’s business

Tannic black yet clearish water

Lake Nellie....on the bank

Foolish today

I once had a big bull gator 14 foot or so on a red gravel road at night between Coy and Camden Alabama attack my pickup and tore my bumper and dented fender

He was on the move between ponds looking for some loving....and didn’t want to be teased by my trucks lights

They are awesome on land.....fast.


76 posted on 06/10/2014 1:19:52 AM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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To: Enterprise
We have mangroves and crocodiles (albeit not as big and not as many!) in Florida. It is quite disconcerting riding one's Harley on a narrow 20 mile causeway and seeing a sign:

CAUTION: WATCH OUT FOR CROCODILES"



Gators are Sunday School Kids compared to these guys! (Shudder)

I am an avid student of WW2, and had never heard that story. Thank you for the link.
77 posted on 06/10/2014 4:29:25 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

This would make a great one hour special on TV!


78 posted on 06/10/2014 6:55:01 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

It would indeed.

Either on the History Channel, or on the “Unusual Foods” Channel.


79 posted on 06/10/2014 6:56:24 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Don’t think so but can image.
Enlighten me. Thanks.

It may be kin to the Keeriest bird that winters in Antarctica and summers in the Sahara. Their call in the summer is Keeriest-keeriestitscold. You can imagine it’s winter call, which changes. (Call spelling changed for respect)
Another is the OOhOOh bird. it eats only Tabasco peppers and is the only bird known to fly in reverse, always.
Their cry is their name.


80 posted on 06/10/2014 7:27:26 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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