02 February 2009, 20:55
SGraves155big killer Croc
Villagers Cooperate to Load Dead Killer Crocodile onto Truck by EthnoScape.
This 19-foot estuarine crocodile fatally attacked a girl bathing in a local river near Sangatta, East Kalimantan in Indonesia. Villagers hunted down the creature and killed it. Here, they are attempting to load the carcass onto a truck transporting it to a museum.
03 February 2009, 04:36
Badger MattHoly Shit. I'm never going swimming again...or even getting near the water. In fact, just to be safe, no more baths and no more water in the whiskey. Thanks a lot Steve.
03 February 2009, 20:10
butchlocholy chit - now thats a croc
08 March 2009, 18:30
Blackhawk83WOW if you look at things by scale you could estimate that just the head of that croc is 3' long. Scary!
08 March 2009, 19:01
KenscoI planned a dive in Papua, then read the information below in Wikipedia and thought better of it. I hadn't thought much about crocodiles in Indonesia, but that bruiser going in the back of the truck, is a pretty good example. The spooky part is that after Perth, my next assignment looks like East Kalimantan.
The bite force just seems unreal when compared to a great white.
Wikipedia - The largest recorded crocodile is a giant saltwater crocodile measured at 8.6 metres (28 ft) and 1,352 kilograms (2,980 lb) shot in Australia, Queensland in 1957. A replica of this crocodile has been made as a tourist attraction. The largest living crocodile known is a 7.1 metres (23 ft) long saltwater crocodile, in Orissa, India. It lives in Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary and in June 2006, was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Two larger certifiable records are both of 6.2 metres (20 ft) crocodiles. The first crocodile was shot in the Mary River in the Northern Territory of Australia in 1974 by poachers and measured by wildlife rangers. The second crocodile was killed in 1983 in the Fly River, Papua New Guinea. In the case of the second crocodile it was actually the skin that was measured by zoologist Jerome Montague, and as skins are known to underestimate the size of the actual animal, it is possible this crocodile was at least another 10 cm longer.
Powerful muscles close the jaws and hold them shut. These jaws can bite down with immense force, by far the strongest bite of any animal. The crocodile's bite force is more than 5,000 pounds per square inch (340 atm), compared to just 335 pounds per square inch (22.8 atm) for a rottweiler, 400 pounds per square inch (27 atm) for a large great white shark, or 800 pounds per square inch (54 atm) to 1,000 pounds per square inch (68 atm) for a hyena.
10 March 2009, 11:56
ncboman... the villagers do not appear to know much about loading a heavy animal into a truck bed.

My boys gave me grey hair as it was. I wouldn't savor raising a family around those things.