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Thu 29 Jan, 2004 08:23 pm
Where's that damn Steve Irwin when you need him?
Quote:January 29, 2004
A CAMPER whose tent was attacked by a 4m crocodile at a remote West Australian fishing spot said he was jolted from sleep when the reptile snapped its jaws closed on the doona encasing his feet.
The 30-year-old man, who did not want to be identified, and his girlfriend were asleep in their mosquito dome near the Pentecost River, about 110km west of Kununurra, on Monday when the crocodile pounced at 3.30am (WST).
"It's amazing it never got my feet because it's taken the doona above me and below me, and it grabbed onto it and was ripping it from side to side pulling back slowly at the same time," he told ABC radio.
"The main thing was to try and get out ... as quickly as possible before he took another bite because he was right in front of us, but I couldn't see him.
"He was there, he was pulling us, the whole tent was coming down, we were getting pulled towards the water."
whatsa doona?
Is it like , doona sleep ona ground with crocodiles.? Do we have to , like tell you this ****?
I dont know that i could casually live in a country wherein everything will sting you, poison you, paralyze you, or snap you like apretzel. Id be on orange alert all day long.
Do the people in the country carry huge cannons?
Foreign tourists I reckon. Probably thought it would be cool to pitch their tent 5 metres from the waters edge. Idiots.
No worries Ade, plenty more where they came from.
Like that British laddie who tried to drive from Broome to NSW. As I remember saying, "What part of 'Great', 'Sandy' and 'Desert' DIDN'T he f@cking understand?".
farmerman wrote:...casually live in a country wherein everything will sting you, poison you, paralyze you, or snap you like a pretzel
I think you have just worked out why a herpetologist and croc hunter has become a celebrity in Australia.
well, if its Steve Irwin you mean, I think he is just one bale short of a ton.
Yeah, but when there's 4m of crocodile out to make an entree of you who do you want hanging on the scaly b@stard's tail? Gustav?
LOL! I know I'd want Steve right by my side. He could protect me and make me laugh at the same time, that funny, crazy bastid :-)
Hey farmerman - a doona is a down blanket far as I remember. Maybe it's a sleeping bag too....?
Heehee - poor croc - prolly still wondering where, with all those damned feathers, the f*#king giant bird is!
(Bad joke alert ! ! !)
I don't believe a word of it, it all sounds like a crock to me . . .
Croc's are very territorial. Don't camp too close to the water's edge. They don't like it.
This is not the first time something like this has happened.
Territorial? About food? Seems like this croc thought it was dinner in a weird hamper...
There's that damned hamper word again . . . you put food in it ? ! ? ! ? Them other ladies was aputtin' dirty socks in theirs . . . you wimmins are just plain wacko . . .
Hamperhamperhamperhamperhamperhamper....
= ; >- p
When it comes to wimmins, the only thing that interests me is their top-hamper (how's that for nautical?).
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