First I spotted the headline ‘Crocodile on Plane kills 19’ and I refused to read the story because I felt that the story would only disappoint after such an amazing headline but how wrong I was, for it transpired that a crocodile had been smuggled onto a plane – forgive me while I imagine ways you can smuggle a crocodile, in your luggage? Disguised AS luggage? Down a leg of your trousers? (risky but can be done with ferrets so who knows) Under a jumper “my oh my that guy is fat and has scaly belly skin’? the mind boggles – but however it happened it appears that the poor crocodile was not securely smuggled (always secure your smuggled crocodiles folks!) and it escaped on the plane, running about and generally terrifying the passengers who dashed away from the ravening beast, unbalancing the plane and causing it to crash! And the worst bit was that the poor crocodile was one of only 2 survivors of the crash! but was killed by rescuers at the scene! Now THAT is a news story.
(as an aside – maybe he smuggled the croc into the plane in a bag of toy crocodiles in much the same way this lady smuggled a tiger cub……)
But jeepers creepers if it doesn’t get worse!
Imagine, you go on a safari holiday, you watch animals during the day and camp in cabins at night, eating round the fire, enjoying the sounds of the wild. Protected in your compound you pop out (with your wife) for a late night outdoor shower under the stars, does life get better? Well it can certainly get worse! Just when you thought soap in your eyes was the worst that could happen, 5 lions attack you! Yes not 1, not 2 not even 3 but 5 lions attack you IN THE SHOWER! This is the stuff of nightmares, and in the case of Pete Evershed the cause of death too.
And of course last week a young boogie boarder was killed by a shark in the waters off of California, a young man that had joked about 'what if we get attacked by a shark'.
Nature is fighting back people! By careful out there!
(How morbid would you need to be to keep a Top 10 animal attacks list though, yeah I'm looking you Time Magazine)
Good grief, those stories are awful!
ReplyDelete'Locals have claimed that lions in the area were being lured into camps with meat by tour operators.'
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell!?
I would put money on the common denominator in all these stories being humans acting irresponsibly in another animal's territory (with the obvious exception of the croc - you don't generally find many of them with frequent flyer points).
White sharks migrate at this time of year and 'feed up' on seals so it's logical to assume this is a bad time to go surfing.
Early morning and late evening's are not great times to enter the water anyway as far as sharks are concerned.
Humans are still the most dangerous animal your likely to encounter ;-).