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| Croc target spent week up tree (Quite a story to tell in the pub) |
| 2007-08-14 |
| CAPE York stockman David George has spent seven nights up a tree in a crocodile-infested swamp, bleeding and with little food - and lived to tell the tale. The father-of-one and co-manager at Silver Plains cattle station yesterday told his remarkable tale of survival and rescue by chopper in rugged bushland near Coen, in the state's remote far north. "Every night I was stalked by two crocs who would sit at the bottom of the tree staring up at me," Mr George recalled yesterday. All I could see was two sets of red eyes below me and all night I had to listen to a big bull croc bellowing a bit further out. "I'd yell out at them, 'I'm not falling out of this tree for you bastards'." |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #6 as mojo alluded to, plz add horses to that ain't list! /so solly Mr. Deacon man |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-08-14 14:11 |
| #5 Croc target spent week up tree (Quite a story to tell in the pub) I am an animal enthusiast, plus a lover of my pets. [warning weird paragraph] Yesteryear I loved to hunt with a purple passion, today that purple passion has transmogrified into a drive to conserve animal & human habitat, for the purposes of us all having each other to frolic with in perpetuity forever. [/warning weird paragraph] Within the entire human & animal kingdom there is a hierarchy of my favorites. >>>BTW: Crocodiles, Mosquitoes, & Bott Flies ain't my favs. |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-08-14 14:09 |
| #4 That's what you get for trusting a horse, pal. Stupid, slab-sided flea hotels. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-08-14 13:54 |
| #3 In case you're wondering "But what happened to the horse?" Which I was. Hmmm. I think I would've found a way to get to the horse in daylight and ride off. Didn't know jackeroos carried toilet paper with them, either. I went on a tour in Kakadu National Park, in the Northern Territory, and our guide was fond of telling us croc-related horror stories. One of those involved someone trapped in a tree for several days. In another one, a man freed himself from a crocodile by shoving his arm down its throat, which opened the valve that keeps water out. This caused the croc to take on water and drown, and the man was able to escape. It's a man's life in Straya. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-08-14 11:36 |
| #2 In case you're wondering "But what happened to the horse?" From the London Times article on the same subject: Mr George, a father of one, said that he spent a lot his time yelling in an attempt to keep the crocodiles away from his horse, which remained nearby until the day before he was found. His horse eventually wandered back alone, unharmed, to Silver Plains station. |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-08-14 10:12 |
| #1 If there was even a hint of flooding in croc country, I would get the hell out of there. Dunno if this is a survival story, or a dummy narrative. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-08-14 04:59 |