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jonmanjiro
03-05-2008, 22:20
Crocodile attacks backpacker in Australia (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/05/wcroc105.xml)

Great series of photos. This guy is most definitely not the smartest cookie in the jar :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2008/03/05/wcroc3.jpg
pvdhaar
03-05-2008, 22:33
Great series of photos. This guy is most definitely not the smartest cookie in the jar :D

Incredibly stupid.. and blasphemous at that too, what with capturing the decisive moment with a digi-Fuji instead of an M-series Leica.. :D
foggie
03-05-2008, 23:21
I'm afraid to take a stranger's picture and they don't have jaws that big.
akalai
03-06-2008, 06:10
"I was shocked - the animal clearly wanted to kill me,'' Mr Mashiah, from Tel Aviv, told the Northern Territory News.

A killing machine with 60 million years or so of evolution and so nearly a worthy recipient of a Darwin Award.
memphis
03-06-2008, 06:25
dumbarse --- certain animals are not to be screwed with.
pfoto
03-06-2008, 06:48
"I was shocked - the animal clearly wanted to kill me,'' Mr Mashiah, from Tel Aviv, told the Northern Territory News.

A killing machine with 60 million years or so of evolution and so nearly a worthy recipient of a Darwin Award.So true! :D
bmattock
03-06-2008, 06:51
He's mistaken. The animal wanted to eat him. Killing is incidental.
dexdog
03-06-2008, 07:17
"I didn't realise that crocs were so aggressive". A priceless understatement.

Anybody that taunts a crocodile is more than a little bit dumb. Kinda a cool series of picks, though.
KoNickon
03-06-2008, 07:33
So, where's the backpack? That looks more like a boat to me.

Sheesh -- the guy manages to avoid getting harmed by Hezbollah and nearly comes to a bad end half a world away.
Keith
03-06-2008, 17:12
Makes 'street photography' seem like a bit of a snooze! :p
mfunnell
03-06-2008, 23:44
Makes 'street photography' seem like a bit of a snooze! :pAs someone pointed out a while ago, 'street photography' actually is dangerous, because buses are big. Footpath (or sidewalk) photography is a good deal safer and a lot more popular :D.

...Mike
Dfin
03-07-2008, 00:03
Hello Breakfast!!!
Spider67
03-07-2008, 00:34
Thanks for that link!
That is a lesson learned
Johnmcd
03-07-2008, 01:12
That's a baby! :)

Being a Sydney cityslickers, my 14 year old son and I took a campervan 6,500 km's last July - from Sydney to Darwin.

While we fished for some barramundi, I snapped some shots from the boat with my DSLR. There wasn't to many places where you couldn't turn around and see some of these bigs boys...

http://johnmcd.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p121120737.jpg

http://johnmcd.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p194136340.jpg

http://johnmcd.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p42277648.jpg

http://johnmcd.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p481370190.jpg

Great experience for the young bloke.

Cheers,

John
0bli0
03-07-2008, 02:21
nice barra! stupid story about the backpacker
MickH
03-07-2008, 02:26
That's a bloody nice fish mate. I wish we got them over here.
Johnmcd
03-07-2008, 02:48
That's a bloody nice fish mate. I wish we got them over here.

Just on legal size.

55cm from memory or the length of a carton of beer. I think the NT Government made it that length because they know there will always be a carton of beer on board :)

John
infrequent
03-07-2008, 04:42
I think the NT Government made it that length because they know there will always be a carton of beer on board :)

that's very australian ; )