Religious Man Eaten After Trying to Receive Blessing From Crocodile

Fox News ^ | Friday, August 22, 2008

[Joiseydude]

Bangladesh police say a crocodile killed and ate a 25-year-old after he waded into a pond next to a shrine in an attempt to receive the animal

[Zionist Conspirator]

Now now . . . no snide comments about a quaint "indigenous" person celebrating his perfectly valid culture.

I'm sure there are some snake-handling hillbillies around it would be so much more PC to make fun of.

[Professional Engineer]

I’d say it’s a safe guess he wasn’t a Wise Man.

[7thOF7th]

I believe we have a winner!!!!!! (2008 Darwin Award)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Definitely a 2008 Darwin Award nominee if not the winner.

[mass55th]

"Bangladesh police say a crocodile killed and ate a 25-year-old after he waded into a pond next to a shrine in an attempt to receive the animal’s blessing."

He wasn't worthy.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Note that the headline does not ID the country or religion.

Very true, but the first word of the article does -- Bangladesh

All religions aren’t the same and don’t deserve to be lumped as the actions of others.

That is also very true. Despite what some people here on FR seem to think, I have never said nor thought any thing of the sort: in fact they falsely accuse me of thinking and saying a lot of things I have never in my life thought nor said.

[Amadeo]

Bangladesh, which is 90% Mohammedan. Most of the rest are Hindu and I can believe a Hindu trying to get a blessing from a primordial reptile. Hindus as a religious group are very devout and take their faith seriously. There are some native Bangla animist pagans in the country and up north. Beautiful people but very strange.

I can believe it. Bangladeshis will jump in the water with all kinds of critters. You see their kids riding Water Buffalo all the time. Many of the blind kids begging in the cities lost their eyesight to aquatic parasites.

If you are there during the monsoon season, in the south especially, you find the natives in water all over the place, doing all kinds of things. Trying to scrape out a living. No other choice.

[E-Mat]

My favorite reply from the thread that got axed:

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!

Lewis Carroll

[Keith in Iowa]

Crocks are athiests?

Who knew.

[E-Mat]

That croc is a devout Muslim.
(You are what you eat.)

[verity]

The man had insufficient faith. ;-)

[UCANSEE2]

“That pic gives a new meaning to “finger foods”.”

LOL!