Largest crocodile caught

papa_smurf · 09-07-11, 05:20 AM

A 21 (yes 21)ft saltwater crocodile has been caught in the Philippines after several fatal attacks.

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The 1,075-kilogramme (2,370-pound) male is suspected of eating a farmer who went missing in July in the town of Bunawan, and of killing a 12-year-old girl whose head was bitten off two years ago, crocodile hunter Rollie Sumiller said. The hunter examined the crocodile's stomach contents by forcing it to vomit after it was captured Saturday, but there was no trace of human remains or of several water buffaloes also reported missing by locals.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/philippines...061040163.html

Reece · 09-07-11, 05:30 AM

What a monster!! Crocodile Dundee eat your heart out!!

Jimbuna · 09-07-11, 10:23 AM

Saw it on the lunchtime ITV news and laughed at them trying to flush it's stomach contents out with what looked like an 10" bore drainpipe

Then it bit it!!

Gerald · 09-07-11, 10:30 AM

Could be good instead of alarms in the house, when you are not there

Jimbuna · 09-07-11, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Reece

What a monster!! Crocodile Dundee eat your heart out!!

I wonder if they'll find that guys missing brother in there?

Growler · 09-07-11, 11:37 AM

A thousand kilo croc?

Yeah, thanks. I'm staying right here in Baltimore. It's safer.

Hottentot · 09-07-11, 11:45 AM

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suspected of eating a farmer who went missing in July in the town of Bunawan, and of killing a 12-year-old girl whose head was bitten off two years ago

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The hunter examined the crocodile's stomach contents by forcing it to vomit after it was captured Saturday, but there was no trace of human remains[...]

Just how long exactly does a crocodile digest its lunches? Or is the article unintenionally just making the hunter look dumb by omitting to say that there might be other suspected victims?

Anthony W. · 09-07-11, 12:16 PM

I bet San Diego Zoo would pay TONS for it...

BossMark · 09-07-11, 12:56 PM

Lake Placid as come true then

Jimbuna · 09-07-11, 02:39 PM

Well...now I know where the wife was hiding from me

Reece · 09-07-11, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Well...now I know where the wife was hiding from me

I dunno Jim, what are we going to do with you?

09-07-11, 05:30 AM	#2
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09-07-11, 10:23 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,539 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Saw it on the lunchtime ITV news and laughed at them trying to flush it's stomach contents out with what looked like an 10" bore drainpipe Then it bit it!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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09-07-11, 11:37 AM	#6
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09-07-11, 02:39 PM	#10
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,539 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Well...now I know where the wife was hiding from me __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!