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yuiyoshida

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Mon Oct 3, 2016, 01:48 AM Oct 2016

Woman in Australia warns off crocodile with her flip flop



SYDNEY: A woman in Australia's Northern Territory forced a prowling salt water crocodile to turn and run after slapping her flip flop against her hand and shouting at the reptile.

The woman was standing with a small dog at the edge of the water at Cahill's Crossing on the East Alligator River in Kakadu National Park when she scared off the crocodile, much to the concern of one onlooker.

"It's just incredible someone would take such a risk. I don't think she realised how dangerous this kind of behaviour is," local crocodile enthusiast Lyndon Anlezark, who filmed the encounter, told Reuters.

Local rangers believe there are more than 120 crocodiles in the six km (four miles) stretch of river south from Cahill's Crossing.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/woman-in-australia-warns-off-crocodile-with-her-flip-flop/3175698.html?cid=twtcna

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Woman in Australia warns off crocodile with her flip flop (Original Post) yuiyoshida Oct 2016 OP
It was possibly eyeing that little dog. She's lucky it left uppityperson Oct 2016 #1
here she would be saying, "HEY Y'ALL, WATCH THIS!" Skittles Oct 2016 #2
She and the dog should not be that close to the edge wheniwasincongress Oct 2016 #3
Having that little pup there is like using him for bait! What a fool. nt tblue37 Oct 2016 #4
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