Australian man swims in croc-infested river and ...

[Swampy]

... he gets napped by a croc. Should anyone be surprised???

[Sir John]

Stupid bastard!

He was warned, and he took the risk and came off second best.



SJ

[hornet32]

 Was it suicide by croc do you think ? .

[Sir John]

Whilst he is/was dark, he did not look aboriginal. They did say "he was a local" so if he was he should have known since childhood what he was doing.

Thye have found the body, which the croc usually hides to come back to later for a snack.

There are signs all over the Top End warning of this.



SJ

[Swampy]

It's all a croc.

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Unfortunately too many visitors do not realise how dangerous Crocodiles can be, even when signs warn them not to enter the water. Crocs can even lie alongside a jetty hidden by the murky water and reeds and can propel themselves out of the water in seconds if an animal or human leans over to take a look at the water. A married couple I know went Barrumundi fishing in the Northern Territory using their own centre console aluminium boat of 16 feet in length and while fishing a medium length Croc climbed onto the stern alongside the outboard motor, the couple managed to push it off with a fish hook and a paddle. And then they left the area quickly.

A female teacher on holidays went on a camping trip by canoe and was warned by Rangers to pitch tent well away from the river bank, and to paddle clear of any Crocs sunbathing. On her third day there was light rain and she paddled along a large Croc approached from in front swimming at 45 degrees angle across the river, as it passed near the canoe its flicked her into the water with its tail and grabbed her around the middle. As the water was shallow she managed to get to the river bank but several times the Croc grabbed her again and again and tried to kill her by rolling her in the water until she drowned. She escaped and dragged herself some distance to a track where she collapsed. It was her lucky day, a vehicle driving along the track came to her and stopped, and she was driven to civilisation and lived to tell her tale.

Crocs will even walk inland and try and ambush humans and animals once they realise that the prey moves to the river and back regularly, that happened to a film crew in the 90s who had a camp away from the river and walked from there inland for exercise every afternoon. The Croc did not succeed in catching a meal. They had to hoist their aluminium boats into trees because Crocs would attack them at night, reason unknown, maybe human and dog smells.

Since hunting Crocs was banned decades ago they have been breeding to a point where they are now everywhere and in large numbers, and some are huge.

[jerryfmcompushaft]

You folks ain't doin' much for the OZ tourist industry

[Sir John]

Should change the signs to

"DO NOT FEED THE CROCODILES"



SJ

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Australian Aborigines survived for thousands of years despite Crocs and much larger Crocs than the ones now alive, because the Aborigines respected Crocs and mostly stayed clear however one of them still gets eaten from time to time, usually children swimming or drunk males