Posted on 03/21/2006 9:08:12 PM PST by aculeus
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A professor at the University of Washington Medical School who moved to Botswana to help alleviate a shortage of doctors there, was killed when a crocodile dragged him from a dugout canoe, his family and colleagues said.
Richard K. Root, 68, was on a wildlife tour of the Limpopo River in remote northeastern Botswana with his wife, Rita O'Boyle, on Sunday when it happened. The couple had been visiting a clinic in the area.
A nationally known expert in infectious disease and the former chief of medicine at Harborview Medical Center here, Root went to the African nation to train health care workers to deal with AIDS. Botswana's rate of HIV infection is about 40 percent.
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Yikes!
Not quite sure what to make of that.
African wildlife is dangerouns Ping!
Yikes! What a way to go.
Wildlife tour, huh? Does he get a refund?
What a waste, and thoughts to the family on their loss.
But you are in "their" environment.....yes, you are food.
And your weapon was .....where?
Was that professor on a 3-hour tour? Where's Gilligan?
Do not feed the wildlife...
Sounds like something that happens to liberals.
I live in the Deep South where there are lot of gators in the bayous and swamps. I've shot a few gators and snakes in my time. I have never had a gator come after me. Over the eons they've learned to fear us. So the gators run from us when they see us coming, rather than to us. They seem to know we are always armed. Go figure.
So it is very rare here that anyone gets attacked by a gator. Sometimes a gator will come through the drainage canals and take a pet or two, but we dispatch them quickly. The tails are rather good deep fried in some Zatarains. Or it is good with a sauce piquant. The skins are a pain in the ass to process though.
Liberals and wild animals dont seem to mix well. Kinda make you wonder what would happen to Liberals if they had to fend for themselves in the world. If me or any of the boys had been there, the prof would be alive and we'd all be dining on gator tail stew. :)
That's a h*lluva way to go. Crikey!
Crocodiles are much, much, much, much more aggressive and dangerous than gators.
And bigger.
Nice how everyone magically figured out this guy's politics based on precisely no info.
Yea, the commie libs. go to Africa to help people because the scenery is so much nicer than helping the poor folk on the south side of Chicago. (Big waste of time in either case....so I guess if I were a commie lib. I'd go to Africa too....but would take my gator repellent with me...)
his politics?...weull, he is a perfesser...whataya think are the chances? 90% that he's libbie? That's the avg. % of libs in our universities nationwide....
You're right. They are big, mean, agile, and hostile. And they are extremely stealthy and fast on the attack. They are way more dangerous than most gators. A very dangerous critter indeed.
PresidentFelon
I saw a TV special about a place in Florida where they loved their wild alligators. Other Florida cities had banned gators over x amount of feet, but these guys gathered the big ones up and protected them. Their town was an alligator sanctuary. Well, after a while, the gators started grabbing and eating the locals. They eventually changed wised up and reluctantly allowed the killing of the big ones, although the hunters had to do it at night so the locals didn't have to witness it.
I doubt that it matters. These guys are ambush hunters. And you're in a canoe? I'd guess that about one second would elapse from the time you heard something breaking water until you were dragged into it in his jaws.
Maybe it was crocodiles then that the Floridians were protecting. I'm a city gal and don't know the difference.
I see the FreeRepublic mockery squad has arrived, ridiculing other people misfortune form a strong position of ignorance.
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