The wish

A man was fishing and he caught a crocodile. The crocodile told him, "Please let me go. I'll grant you any wish you desire."

The man said, "Okay. I wish my balls could touch the ground."

So the crocodile bit his legs off.

Say cheese! The shocking moment a croc took a snap at a posing fisherman -

March 5 2008
Teeth flashing and jaws wide open, a 12ft crocodile lunges at fisherman Novon Mashiah and comes crashing down on his boat, inches from its intended prey.


Mr Mashiah - who moments before had been posing for a photograph with the reptile as it approached - decides it was not the brightest of ideas and hits the outboard engine to escape.

The crocodile had swum towards the boat hoping to be fed fish.

"I was shocked, the animal clearly wanted to kill me," said 27-year-old Mr Mashiah."One minute I was leaning over the boat teasing it for a picture. The next minute it burst out of the water with incredible speed.

"I jumped back and the croc landed on the boat and then slapped into the water. I was shaking."Mr Mashiah's friend Doron Aviguy, 22, took the photograph from a bigger boat nearby.

The two Israelis are working as fishermen on the South Alligator River in the Northern Territory of Australia.Mr Mashiah said: "They come near the boat all the time, probably because we are fishing.

I was laughing, but it wasn't funny in the end. I didn't realise that crocs were so aggressive.

"While Mr Mashiah escaped without injury in the attack, he has received a savaging from people who read his story in their local paper.

"What the bloody hell did you expect, then?" asked one writer. "That the croc would jump up, put his arm around your neck and smile for the camera? What a fool you are."

"What an idiot," said another blogger, pointing out that crocs eat things - "especially stupid people who get too close for a happy snap for the holiday album. Play with fire - you will get burnt.

"A writer called Darren commented: "What a dimwit. Considering you still have both hands, use one of them to slap yourself!"

'Crocodile' mystery on Harrogate's swamped Stray - harrogateadvertiser.net

August 23 2008

HARROGATE got a flavour of the tropics this week - but torrential rain wasn't the only exotic visitor, as a crocodile made its home in a swamped corner of the Stray.

Drivers and walkers – at least those prepared to brave the downpours – gathered for a glimpse, undeterred by a bright yellow sign warning of the presence of a dangerous predator.

Closer inspection revealed the beast to be little more than a wooden log with eyes on stalks.It's a new spin on the Loch Ness Monster which paid a visit to the Stray during previous floods.

And just like its fabled Scottish predecessor, the origin of the crocodile remains shrouded in mystery.

Harrogate Advertiser readers have said they were "tickled" by the prank, with one correspondent saying: "It makes me laugh every time I go past."

Crocodile tears - telegraph.co.uk

Crocodiles don't cry, but they do shed tears. The nerve supply to their salivary glands and tear ducts are next door to each other, so that, when a crocodile spots lunch, it drools and "cries" simultaneously.

As it eats, tears well up and its eyes fill with froth and bubbles.

The term "crocodile tears" gained wide popularity as a result of a single passage in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, first published in the 14th century:
"In many places of Inde are many crocodiles - that is, a manner of long serpent. These serpents slay men and they eat them weeping."

ALLIGATOR CRAFT

Making a papier mache crocodile or alligator...






A very cool finished product!

Alligator takes school bus home - bbc.co.uk

A school bus in the US had an unusual extra passenger on the way home after a group of kids took an alligator on it.

They spotted the alligator crossing the road in front of their bus and, after persuading the driver to stop, got off and took the animal on with them.

They had taped the alligator's mouth shut to keep it from biting them but it was still a dangerous thing to do.

The alligator wasn't hurt by its unexpected ride, and the dad of one of children let it go into a river.

The alligator was taken on a school busThe bus driver has been suspended while officials investigate how it all happened.