Watch the terrifying moment Koh Samui zookeeper's stunt with a crocodile goes horribly wrong

[oldhippy]

4 hours ago, Sirbergan said:

There's actually nothing funny about this, at all. Not from any perspective. The Croc, the caretaker (we know nothing about his background) and the audience were all traumatized.

I was at the show, and I was not traumatized at all.

 

That is, not when the incident happened.

I challenged my wife "you always know better, so why don't YOU do it?"

I also had a quiet word with the crock.

Now what could possibly go wrong? I thought.

Well, nothing happened, that's what went wrong.

Somebody heard the crock say "not enough money in the brown envelope".

Life sucks.

 

[Reigntax]

Thats a headjob at work he will remember.

[oldhippy]

8 minutes ago, Reigntax said:

Thats a headjob at work he will remember.

What should you do if you came across a crock?

Wipe it off before the crock gets angry.

 

 

[Grumpy Duck]

16 hours ago, JoePai said:

 555 serves him right, the idiot   

Lost his head over a few hundred baht in tips?  I wonder if he learned it is not good to play games with mother natures creations? They are not here for our pleasure

[Grumpy Duck]

I was not interested in watching the video. I don't understand how some people get enjoyment watching others suffer. 

[Get Real]

Incident? Accident? Let´s just call it Stupident!

[jacko45k]

Stupid stunt anyhow. Coming to you as luggage soon.

[4MyEgo]

12 hours ago, biplanebluey said:

I don't think horses in any way can be compared to crocodiles-------- Do you think he should have stuck his head straight back in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  personally I don't think he should have put his head in there to start with.Bloody idiot !!!!!!

There's another Aussie saying, "that went straight over the top" 555 

[hotchilli]

Same thing happened at Samut Prakarn crocodile farm not long ago...

I guess 300 baht a day is worth the risk of decapitation for some. 

[kiwikeith]

19 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

As the old saying goes, when your thrown off the horse, best thing to do is get straight back on.....lol

\hexackory! I have seen this stunt many times in LOS, maybe he got the wrong end of the stick, next time leave stick in crocs mouth b4 inserting Head!

[metisdead]

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[Chongalulu]

5 hours ago, oldhippy said:

he also could not 'of' (sic) learned basic grammar and be a mod specializing in visa questions.

>>>> I might go on holiday now <<<<< wink wink

 

 

But that gentleman,for whom I have the utmost respect,would never contextualise it in such a crass comment which was the only reason for being a grammar pedant in this instance. 

[tigermoth]

absolute total idiot. deserved to lose his head as there couldn't have been anything inside it anyway. Croc probably realised this as well hence he still has it.

[Jonathan Swift]

Need to enforce helmet laws for sticking heads in animals mouths

[mogandave]

If the guy had broken his neck motocross riding or rock climbing he'd be a hero.




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[mindfulness]

21 hours ago, sweatalot said:

Not sure. I am afraid serious cervical spine injury

... there's usually a idiot who's the stand in guy. 

The show must go on as they say in show'business'.  

[spidermike007]

What can one even say? When Steve Irwin died, my response was that he was living on borrowed time. Petting a Manta Ray? I mean, what he hell was he thinking? And he was an expert, with animals. But, if you push too hard, and do things that were never meant to be done, within the evolutionary system, and the relationship between man and animals, you are going to get bitten, stung, injured, or killed, at some point. 

 

Some of the things that people do for thrills these days boggle my mind. I have two friends who are long time divers. They travel all over the world to dive with many varieties of sharks. Sometimes they are surrounded by dozens of huge sharks. They say if it relatively safe. Now, they are diving with crocodiles. There is some sort of platform the crocs dive off of, and they are just out of range of the divers. I do not get it. I do not get the extent that people go to for thrills.

 

Here is a recent article on base jumping, which is one of the most dangerous of all thrill seeking sports, right up there with extreme rock climbing, cave diving, and this ridiculous sport of jumping from buildings to buildings and bridges to trains, and all of that other absolutely ridiculous, fate defying nonsense. Just admit your senses are dead. Admit that nothing makes you happy. Admit that you are jaded, and need something extreme to get some joy out of life.

 

Risk management is key in one of the world's most dangerous sports

You don't have to look far to find BASE jumping in the news these days. Recently, four men were charged in relation to a jump from One World Trade Center, an adventure captured in a viral video. But thrilling tales of adventure seem to overpower those of danger. In February, a newlywed BASE-jumped to her death in Utah's Zion National Park, when her parachute failed to open as her new husband looked on. And now comes the confirmation that a BASE jumping legend met his end in March, while jumping near the same spot.

 

Sean "Stanley" Leary was 39 and about to become a father when his body was found in his BASE jumping gear, 300 feet beneath a ridge inside the park. It is believed he clipped a rock wall mid-flight, the Los Angeles Times reports. Making the story even more tragic, Leary had taken up the extreme sport after Brazilian climber Roberta Nunes died in his arms after a car accident in 2006. "Right before she died she made him promise her that he would keep pursuing adventure," a friend of Leary's told the San Francisco Chronicle. 

 

That pursuit became Leary's passion for BASE jumping -- which stands for Buildings, Antenna, Spans, and Earth, all elements jumpers use as their launch pad, sometimes wearing wingsuits that allow them to soar before a parachute catches them up. "There's a second of absolute freedom. You're floating in the air. It's just magic when the wingsuit pops open and inflates and you start to take off," Leary once described on video -- now an eerie look inside his head. In describing a jump landing, he noted, "You're like 'Thank God the parachute opened,' which it always does."

 

The dangers of BASE jumping are well-known, and deaths are hardly rare. It seems a quick Google search will turn up at least several each week. But as Ed Caesar wrote for the New York Times last year, the "modesty, caution, patience" of veteran jumpers is slowly "being eroded by this new generation of wingsuit pilots, stimulated by speed and YouTube hits." After the death of a veteran jumper, Hervé le Gallou, in 2012, one jumper told Caesar, "many old-timers retired. They gave me different reasons, but the point is that they all told me Hervé's death was the bell ringing the end of the game."

 

At least 26 people have died BASE jumping in the last year alone, according to Blinc magazine's BASE Fatality List. To put that in perspective, the list records a total of 229 deaths in the sport since 1981. 

If you do decide to try out a jump, or at least read up on it, you'll actually find jumpers advise you against it. For example, Matt Gerdes' Great Book of BASE notes the sport "is probably the deadliest and most dangerous sport in existence. It is so dangerous that we actually don't recommend that you do it. In fact, we honestly think it's a bad idea. We also think it's probably the most fun that a human being can have."

 

Clearly some daredevils are not deterred. Take Australian doctor Glenn Singleman, an avid BASE jumper who in 1992 held the record for the highest jump. "Extreme sport creates risk, but most of it is in your face and obvious, it can be managed," he told New Zealand's Dominion Post. "I think there are parallels around managing risk in adventure and in medicine. In a hospital it's about managing someone else's risk; in adventure it's about managing your own."

As for James Brady, one of the jumpers who took off from One World Trade Center last September and now faces charges, "Everybody has their thing. This is our thing," he told Good Morning America. "We were thinking that very clearly that everything was working out for us to make a clean safe jump."

[BobbyLambo]

11 hours ago, ThaidaGwaii said:

Lots of Sociopaths seem to be reading Thai Visa...

You must be new here. Welcome to ThaiVisa!

[CockneyGit]

Snap!

[chuang]

No staff went to his help.....

[Syduan]

23 hours ago, sweatalot said:

Not sure. I am afraid serious cervical spine injury

And he's literally lost face as well. 

[farcanell]

Why not?, I thought

just a sneaky wee peak.... I'm always amazed at the extent folks will go to entertain me

[samjaidee]

17 hours ago, biplanebluey said:

OK I give in, what's schadenfreude .

 

Schadenfreude  is malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.  Borrowed from German into English and several other languages, the word gained popularity in English in the late 20th c. and likely entered mainstream usage through an episode of The Simpsons.

[PoorSucker]

So, where is this Zoo, I didn't know there was a Koh Samui Zoo ?

The Croc Farm is by the airport, it's not a Zoo.
They breed crocs for skin and meat.
Plenty of them around Thailand, without them the Siam Croc would extinct.

[owl sees all]

1 hour ago, Syduan said:

And he's literally lost face as well. 

Dark humour there! Like it!!

[owl sees all]

56 minutes ago, samjaidee said:

Schadenfreude  is malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.  Borrowed from German into English and several other languages, the word gained popularity in English in the late 20th c. and likely entered mainstream usage through an episode of The Simpsons.

I am informed. Thank you Samjaidee.

 

I reckon the croc' had some affection for the guy. I don't know if it was a male or female but it seems to me that the croc' was saying 'I've got a headache' or 'not tonight mate'.

 

The reason for this thinking is that the croc' could have so easily killed the guy. But it didn't!! Or it could have been that it simply wasn't hungry; just annoyed. "Same old thing 5 times a day!!" 

[Khon Kaen Dave]

11 hours ago, oldhippy said:

I found 2 videos on youtube, not sure if it is 2 of the same  thing happening, or 2 of similar happenings.

 

 

It was a few years ago now. But i think it was the Tiger zoo, where it happened.

[oldhippy]

7 years ago my family took me to the same show in Samut Prakarn, I have never been to Koh Samui.

Maybe these animal abusers run a chain? My pic clearly shows "Samut Prakarn" Crocodile Farm & Zoo.

I remember my wife saying they should not treat the elephants like this.

After sticking their head in the crocks mouth, the crock closed its mouth, and to make it more entertaining, this was accompanied by a drum beat. How exciting.

[Moonlover]

He's not the only one. I've seen the same thing happen to a guy in the USA. In that case the croc hung on and it took four strong assistants to get it to release its grip.

 

Dumb headedness is not confined to Thailand by a long way.

[oldhippy]

7 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

He's not the only one. I've seen the same thing happen to a guy in the USA. In that case the croc hung on and it took four strong assistants to get it to release its grip.

 

Dumb headedness is not confined to Thailand by a long way.

Indeed, it is not.

From yesterdays newspaper, the idiot died.