Be Careful Out There

[jackspratt]

19th October 2007,

Police armed with assault rifles searched for 36 crocodiles that escaped from a farm in northeastern Thailand when their pens were flooded after heavy rains, an official said today.

Search parties shot and killed eight of the animals as they slithered through the flooded district this morning, said Chin Konjohor, chief of the area’s municipal office.

Police and village volunteers have been scouring the Nonsoong district of Nakhon Ratchasima province by boat, day and night, since the crocodiles escaped on Tuesday, he said.

Chin said night searches were often the most successful because the eyes of crocodiles glowed in the dark.

Heavy rains have inundated several north-eastern provinces for days. Parts of Nakhon Ratchasima province, about 210 kilometres north of Bangkok, were among the hardest hit.

“The entire town is under water,” Chin said. “We’re working hard to catch the crocodiles before they bite someone.”

Crocodiles are farmed in Thailand for their skin and meat, much of which is exported for use by European fashion designers and restaurants in China.

BANGKOK

[kankaroo]

Can't they at least try and capture some alive first, like they do in Florida when one wanders into a back garden?

And also I don't know how anybody can eat them. They have the exact same texture of chicken but taste like rotten fish

[jetjock]

Where is Steve Irwin when you need him ??? Really used to enjoy watching his programs. RIP

Edited October 19, 2007 by jetjock

[ercorn]

I have tried crocodile meat it`s quite good a mix between pork and chicken would be the best way I would describe the taste.

[lazeeboy]

I have tried crocodile meat it`s quite good a mix between pork and chicken would be the best way I would describe the taste.

cant they use some kind of drug to catch them instead of blowing there brains out

[Nignoy]

Where is Steve Irwin when you need him ??? Really used to enjoy watching his programs. RIP

At least the thai public where notified about the escaped crocs!!It was over 2 years before australia zoo notified the authorities that they had mislaid a few salties!!and they only admitted it then because a labrador was taken by a croc on a property neighbouring the zoo,Nignoy

[Neeranam]

I saw a croc once in the great flood of 95, in Nontaburi.

[midas]

Can't they at least try and capture some alive first, like they do in Florida when one wanders into a back garden?

And also I don't know how anybody can eat them. They have the exact same texture of chicken but taste like rotten fish

I disagree its very tasty meat ! at the Sheraton hotel in Alice Springs you can get a dish called

" Northern territory trio " i.e. a medallion of kangaroo, a medallion of water buffalo

and a medallion of crocodile meat covered in a fruity sauce- anyway it was nice

[sbk]

Happens regularly...

Crocodile Alert as reptiles escape