If you plan your holidays in Germany, beware the crocodiles

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...704742,00.html

Lovely. I already imagine a future headline in the Berliner Morgenpost: "Bathing women ripped to pieces by white shark in the Wannsee". Or "Mating season of Anacondas closed five open air baths in northern Germany". Or "Sewage disposal plants get special filters to prevent piranhas entering the public drinking water pipelines."

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Skybird

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...704742,00.html

Lovely. I already imagine a future headline in the Berliner Morgenpost: "Bathing women ripped to pieces by white shark in the Wannsee". Or "Mating season of Anacondas closed five open air baths in northern Germany". Or "Sewage disposal plants get special filters to prevent piranhas entering the public drinking water pipelines."

Good!

They made the danish news too.

The story came out on the same day as an announcement that over a dozen dog breeds had been outlawed in Denmark.

[Jimbuna]

I wonder if the authorities will send anyone onto that small overgrown island to take a look

Calling....Crocodile Dundee

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

They made the danish news too.

The story came out on the same day as an announcement that over a dozen dog breeds had been outlawed in Denmark.

With dogs and breeds?

[UnderseaLcpl]

Truth is stranger than fiction. We had confirmation that there's at least one large alligator in Lake Worth a while back. Another escaped "exotic pet", it would seem. My roommate works for a charity that cares for big cats, most of which come from homes where they were adopted as pets and were then abandoned because they became unmanageable. One would think that a person wealthy enough to afford such an animal would not be so stupid as to try to keep one as a pet. Apparently not

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I wonder if the authorities will send anyone onto that small overgrown island to take a look

Calling....Crocodile Dundee

Just send in Tarjak or Reece

[TarJak]

Crikey!

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Crikey!

That didn't take long!

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

That didn't take long!

15 mins by my watch. Dunno that I'd be much good at catching crocs. The only croc's I've ever seen in RL were all behind fences or glass.

Steve Irwin's sone might be more help:

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by TarJak

15 mins by my watch. Dunno that I'd be much good at catching crocs. The only croc's I've ever seen in RL were all behind fences or glass.

Maybe we can make that part of the next subsim meet: croc wrestling

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Maybe we can make that part of the next subsim meet: croc wrestling

Sounds good. Your go first.

[Castout]

Bah people are by far pose the gravest threat to tourists.

From pickpocket, luggage thief, kidnapper, rapist, or pedophile or some psychopaths. And you just have to experience losing all your payment means in a foreign country and not to mention travel documents as well to know that being pickpocketed or having lost a luggage could be a real trip and holiday breaker/canceller.

Originally Posted by Vendor

With dogs and breeds?

It was pit bulls, and the like.
Bulldogs also made the list.
No german shephards or dobermans though.

In almost all cases it's not the dog, but the owner that's at fault.
But these are the breeds that most atract those kinds of people.
And those kinds of people are the ones that deliberately make the dogs aggresive.
Very sad situation.

Oh!
Already living dogs are exempt. (smile)
The ban is on dogs born after a certain date in future.

Who's tougher?
Crocks or gators?
How do they differ?