13 September 2006, 18:14
rugeruserMADDNESS
quote:
Originally posted by JAL:
I'll put money on the crock. They move a lot faster than Irwins "conditioned" "pets".
What book did I read (again) not long ago, may have been Capstick? Anyway someone shot a crock in Africa, waded out and started pulling it back but it kept comming alive and he kept shooting it, and on land it still kept scareing everyone by moving now and then. Long after it was dead and skinned the crew came back and the crock had a vulture in it's jaws.
Dunno about the vulture thing, but as JAL says, wild crocs move pretty quickly, and as I mentioned before, they tend to stay alive well after you think they should be dead.. sharks do the same...
As to having a croc charge at you while you launch an 'amphibious attack'... the ones I saw were trying to get away, not 'attacking'...
15 September 2006, 16:43
JALJust for the record, it was Peter Hathaway Capstick's "Death In The Long Grass".
Now, would HE tell a story/fib??
His tussle with the crock was one of the funnyiest stories I've ever read.
15 September 2006, 17:50
rugeruserHaven't read the book, so I can't comment... but I do have personal experience of supposedly 'dead' croc's and sharks...
One example, my ex got bitten on the foot by a 3' shark (yep, even that size has teeth!!) about 6 hours after we had brought it on board, and 'killed it' with a knife through the head....
Come to think of it, she must have taken lessons from that bloody thing!!
Gee, cut into steaks it tasted good though!!
