DRUNK TOURIST MAULED BY CROCODILE AFTER TRYING TO RIDE !!!!

[Daanyeer]

Drunk tourist mauled by Fatso the crocodile... after trying to RIDE 16ft-long beast
By Richard Shears
13th July 2010


There's an unwritten rule in Australia's outback - if you drink too much, don't mess with the wildlife.
One tourist who either hadn't heard the warning or who was too drunk to care decided after a few hours at a tavern that he'd go for a ride... on a crocodile.
The 36-year-old man, whose name is being withheld by police because 'he's suffered enough embarrassment and injury', climbed over a fence surrounding a crocodile enclosure on the outskirts of the town of Broome, Western Australia.

This is the home of Fatso, a monster 18ft saltwater crocodile, one of the most dangerous creatures on earth, and who guards his territory ferociously.
Without a thought for the possibility that he could end up in Fatso's stomach, the tourist - believed to be from New South Wales - hurled himself at the crocodile and tried to take a ride on his back.
'Fatso has taken offence to this and has spun around and bit this man on the right leg,' said Sergeant Roger Haynes of Broome police.
'For an unknown reason, the crocodile has let him go and he's been able to scale the fence again and leave the wildlife park.'


Trailing blood from severe wounds in his leg, the man made his way back to the pub, where an ambulance was called.
'He's extremely lucky to have got out of there alive,' said Sgt Haynes.
'Once saltwater crocodiles get hold of you, they are not renowned for letting you go.'
Mr Malcolm Douglas who owns the crocodile park said the drunken visitor was 'incredibly lucky' to survive his brush with the 125 stone reptile.
Fatso has a violent history.
He was moved to the wildlife park from a Northern Territory river 20 years ago because he was attacking boats.
'The man who climbed the fence was fortunate because Fatso was a bit more sluggish than normal, due to the cooler nights we have been experiencing in Broome,' said Mr Douglas.
'If it had been warmer and Fatso was more alert, we would have been dealing with a fatality.
‘But at the best of times, you just don't go around trying to ride on the back of a crocodile.'
Sgt Haynes could not agree more.
'No person in their right mind would try to sit on a huge saltwater crocodile,' he said.
'We do know that the man is from the other side of Australia because he doesn't seem to have a very good understanding of the nature of saltwater crocs.'
Sgt Haynes said the visitor had some 'very nasty lacerations' and would spend some time in hospital because crocodile wounds are prone to infection.


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[Navy9]

I think the drunk man should sue the croc