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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman 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
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)1. It was possibly eyeing that little dog. She's lucky it left
Skittles
(153,160 posts)2. here she would be saying, "HEY Y'ALL, WATCH THIS!"
very dangerous indeed
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)3. She and the dog should not be that close to the edge
dumb dumb dumb
tblue37
(65,340 posts)4. Having that little pup there is like using him for bait! What a fool. nt