Holy shit. Guy spends a night with a crocodile under his bed, without him knowing it

[madokie]

http://grist.org/list/this-guy-spent-the-night-with-a-crocodile-under-his-bed/

Imagine waking up in a hotel in Africa, dangling your feet sleepily off the edge of the bed, and having them both bitten off by a crocodile. That’s not quite what happened at the Humani lodge in Zimbabwe, but IT COULD HAVE, because Guy Whitall spent the entire night on top of a crocodile — including letting his feet hang inches from the creature’s snout. Making you check under the bed for monsters doesn’t sound so silly now, does it, MOM?

The eight-foot, 330-pound Nile crocodile evidently had quite enough of human intrusions into his territory, and decided to intrude right the hell back. It crawled out of the Turgwe River and made itself at home under a bed, where Whitall blithely slept the entire night with his dangerous bunkmate, not finding out about its presence until breakfast the next morning. Whitall told the Daily Mail, “The really disconcerting thing about the whole episode is the fact that I was sitting on the edge of the bed that morning, barefoot and just centimeters away from the croc.”

Let this be a lesson: Let’s preserve natural habitats so that terrifying prehistoric animals with giant teeth don’t have to come room with us. Also, always go to bed in steel-toed boots.

[Douglas Carpenter]

1. I wish I had a nickle for every time that happened to me

[Summer Hathaway]

2. And how he got into my pajamas

I'll never know.

[longship]

4. Hooray for Captain Spalding, the African explorer!.

Did someone call me snorer?

Hooray. Hooray. Hoorayyy!

[Summer Hathaway]

6. Thanks so much

for a well-needed laugh!

[longship]

7. Here's more. Take your punishment.

Love this flick. "Animal Crackers" which has the funniest bridge scene ever. (The card game)

[Fumesucker]

3. Tick Tock muthafucka n/t

[gordianot]

5. I knew there were crock's under the bed Mommy and Daddy would not listen!

[Tanuki]

8. Photo from the link:

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[pinboy3niner]

9. "Heeeey, waitaminit...I don't have any crocodile shoes..."

[Tanuki]

10. Michael Douglas' crocodile skin boots,

at the end of "Romancing the Stone"!

[KansDem]

11. So, did they split the room rate?

"Hello, Room Service? Yes, we would like some breakfast sent up. Oh, how about a prune danish, a cup of tea, and a buffalo?"

[malaise]

12. Saw that

He's a former captain of the Zimbabwe cricket team.

Amazing how he had those legs dangling off the bed but wasn't attacked.