300kg croc hauled from Darwin river

The Australian ^ | November 07, 2006

[Dundee]

FIVE people were needed to haul a 300kg crocodile from a Northern Territory river popular with locals for water sports.

The 3.7m male saltwater crocodile was dragged from Howard River at Howard Springs, about 40km south of Darwin, early today.

[Dallas59]

"They" say we have em up here in DFW....I believe it now. Palestine isn't that far away.

[advertising guy]

I'm from the Wichita Falls area but here now in Phoenix and in the day,we'd saddle that 13 ft'r. Nobody ever
accused us of common sense.

[FLOutdoorsman]

Those pictures about the Alligator with the deer came from Georgia/South Carolina.
From Snopes: In August 2004, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) finally cleared up the issue by issuing a press release identifying the photographs as having been taken in south Georgia (near the Georgia/South Carolina border) by a USFWS officer in March 2004:
The sight of a 12 to 14 foot-long alligator is something south Georgia folks see occasionally, but few have seen one take an adult deer out to lunch. Actually — for lunch. The photographs of this deer-eating alligator were taken from the air by Terri Jenkins, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service District Fire Management Officer. She was preparing to ignite a prescribed fire at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, about 40 miles south of Savannah, Georgia, on March 4, 2004. "One advantage of fire work is you get to see that 12-14 footers are common from Santee National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina to Coastal South Carolina to Georgia’s coast," said Jenkins. "It looks like the alligator population is doing extremely well." This one was at least 12-13 feet long. Jenkins said that some bull alligators have a 35 inch girth. Thats a big gator no doubt. Don't forget about this guy too:

[Recon Dad]

I may have to rethink my retirement plans.

The place I was looking at in South Carolina had a picture taken of a 6 foot gator. Now that's not too big but it was actually standing up against someone's front screen door. Can't you just see some old lady yelling, "hold on I'll be right there" and opening the door.

[mewzilla]

Can't you just see some old lady yelling, "hold on I'll be right there" and opening the door.

Landshark!

[StevieJ]

Handy tip - type something like:

300kg in pounds

into the Google search box.

Or try something a bit more elaborate like:

10000 inches per hour in furlongs per fortnight

[Fairview]

This is the first time I've ever been glad I don't live in Texas.

[eureka!]

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