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Army kills crocodile

Ozzy

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I just got this email, What do you think.

This crocodile was found in New Orleans swimming down the street. 21 FT long, 4,500 lbs, around 80 years old minimum. Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to catch animals. This crocodile was killed by the army last Sunday at 3:00 pm, currently he is in the freezer at the Azur hotel. The contents of it's stomach will be analyzed this Friday at 2:30pm.


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I think wherever that gator was...it was a shame it was killed. Geez. I certainly wouldnt want it to hurt anyone but what a magnificent animal...and so old. Should have been left to live out its life naturally.

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sounds like some privates were looking for a target to practace on

But really even if it does have human contents, you cant balme a animal for looking for food. probably serching for carrion, whatever was floating by. carrion is carrion to a croc.
 
i dont want to be mean but i think its a waste to just let this rot dont you think? i mean it was killed why not use the sking right? but i do feel sad that it was killed like this:(
 
I tend to agree with Finch, but it also sounds like the beginning of another stupid urban legend to me. A shame, really. I somehow doubt that it was 'looking to eat humans,' seeing as we're not really the easiest quarry out there.
~Joe
 
Hate to tell you this guy's..

"The pictures are real, but the caption is false. These photos were not taken in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They were taken in 2003 and document the capture of a 16-foot crocodile in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. The incident was covered in the July 17, 2003 edition of La Semaine Africaine."
 
That statement doesn't even make sense.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to catch animals.
So then how has it lived so long without eating tons of humans?

~ Brett
 
lol yeah talk about a chain letter.

More info

"Even the original exaggerated the facts in this story. According to media accounts, the Pointe Noire Crocodile was a giant, but not quite the behemoth portrayed in the chain letter. The real croc was around 50 years old, about 16 feet long and weighed a "mere" 1,874 pounds (that's still huge, but a far cry from two and a quarter tons). Also,the croc was not stored in a hotel's freezer until it could be dissected. Rather, the mayor of Pointe Noire, ordered the animal be sent to a taxidermist and preserved for its tourist value (the residents would have preferred to have eaten him). Break this Chain."
 
It sounded like crap to me... Thanks for pointing out the facts Jeremiah... Sometimes it is amazing the "facts" that come out to try and make people look bad....
 
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I'm glad that you guys figured it out so quick.
However, you missed the biggest give away of them all. Crocodiles don't even live in New Orleans, on gators live there.
 
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LOL details details details.....
 
  • #12
ozzy thats what i was going to say lol
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They just got it taxadermyed and wasted all that meat? If your gonna` kill it atleast eat it!(I`m trying to convience my mom to let me cook the opposums\coons I shoot because of our problem with loosing chickens to them)
 
  • #14
Yummy, opossoms and coons.
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  • #15
That's POSSUMS. lol Geez...aren't you from the south?? No one in the south says OOOpossum.

You and your tricks! It never registered on me you said crocodile.
 
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And today I saw an article in the paper about a Burmese python that burst after partially swallowing an alligator (or was that a croc?)
 
  • #17
It was a 6ft alligator.
Here's the story I heard Robert D. Raeford tell on the Jonh Boy & Billy show this mornig.

A helicopter pilot saw the snake and then went in to investigate. He found the gator sticking out of the snake. They said they think the gator clawed it's way out.

I saw a flaw in that story. Pythons don't swallow live food. They sufficate the prey first. I assumed that the gator was sticking out of the snake mouth. So I thought that make the snake tried to swallow the gator but it was to big. So the snake choked.

Later today I saw the pic and the gators tail was sticking out of the snakes stomach. So somehow the snake was ripped opened.

The only way I can see that happening is for something attacked the snake after it had eaten the gator or the gator ripped it's way out with it back legs and claws. But like AI said before Pytons don't swallow live food.

So I don't know what happened.
 
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[b said:
Quote[/b] (0zzy @ Oct. 06 2005,6:10)]I saw a flaw in that story. Pythons don't swallow live food. They sufficate the prey first.
Perhaps it forgot to finish the gator off? You're so critical, Ozzy; not all pythons are perfect you know.
The tail was sticking out of the stomach? I thought it was only partially swallowed - don't pythons always eat their prey head first for some reason? I think I read that somewhere.
~Joe
 
  • #19
sometimes the prey might not be dead when swollowed, just incapacitated, but thats rare.
 
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