Crocodile Huntress

crock attack!Nothing to do with Korea, just a bloody good yarn.

A teaser:

Perhaps the luckiest man in Australia is recovering in the Cairns Base Hospital after a 60-year-old woman wrestled a crocodile in far north Queensland to free him from its jaws.

The woman jumped on the back of the 4.2-metre reptile as it dragged the man from the tent in which he had been sleeping beside his wife and baby in the early hours of yesterday morning and was making for a river, about 50 metres away.

Go check it out.

Update: this was a saltwater croc. They live in estuaries, and can travel up to 1,000 kms through the sea! If that croc had got the man in the water it woulda been all over - supergran or no supergran.

One Comment

  1. Ronin your flag
    Posted October 12, 2004 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

    That musta been one hungry crock! especially since it didnt go for the smaller wife or baby, but instead went for the largest piece of meat in the tent it could find. If I were saved by a lil old lady like that I would cut off the gators head, have it stuffed on a wall mount, and give it to the old lady labled with a placard that read “This Is Grandma’s Bitch”.

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