Indonesia—having passed on half-measures like shadow-triggered spear-walls and dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees—has come up with an outside-the-box idea for guarding its death row drug convicts: crocodiles. A body of water teeming with crocodiles.
Truly we humans are not meant for this world.
About 150 crocodilians were removed from a Toronto-area home last week after their owner reached out to a nearby reptile sanctuary for help with his bonkers hoarding problem, CBC News reports.
A 65-year-old woman from Bangkok committed suicide on Friday by walking into a reptile farm outside the capital and jumping into a crocodile pit. Staff attempted to use large sticks to prevent the crocodiles from attacking her, but it was too late.
A crocodile with a human name in Australia attacked his handler this week during a feeding show. Trent Burton eventually managed to get loose from the twelve-foot crocodile, whose name is John, and escaped with only minor injuries.
A man who spent the night with an eight-foot crocodile in his bedroom says he never thought to check underneath his bed for monsters.
Never go to Australia. Just one week after a 16-foot-long croc ruined an Aussie's birthday by eating his friend, a New Zealander was rescued from a small Australian island after being trapped there for two weeks by a crocodile he described as “very, very, very large.”
A man swimming in a muddy Australian river was attacked and killed by a giant crocodile on Saturday. The gruesome attack was witnessed by 15 of the man's friends, who were camping along the river to celebrate another friend's 30th birthday.
A French sailor in Australia narrowly escaped death after being attacked by a crocodile. Yoann Galeran, a 29-year-old deckhand, was swimming out to retrieve a dinghy in Nhulunbuy, Australia when he felt a heavy weight on top of him. Right away, he told NT News, he knew it was a crocodile.
"I'd enjoyed a few beers and it seemed a good idea at the time," said an unnamed angler who recounted to the Northern Territory News a recent misadventure involving a log, a paddle, a lack of clothing, and the infamously croc-infested Daly River in Australia.
The Rakwena Crocodile Farm in northern South Africa has reportedly managed to capture about 7,500 crocodiles that went missing after a flood threat forced the owner to open the gates, but just as many remain on the loose.
TMZ introduces us to a woman with three pet crocodiles, which she claims are sweet as pie. It's unclear where the crocodiles came from, or if this is even legal. Oh, and she has cats, too.
It is en vogue to say that Craig Ferguson is the best late night host on TV right now. And for good reason. He uses a reptilian puppet to interview his guests.
