kittenlips

Anyone fancy going to Darwin/Northern Territory after seeing headline news this morning::scared:

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3342657.stm


Yikes!:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

Hope he wasn't drinking Fosters and lost his head!

kittenlips

Sorry I don't think the link is working, here it is again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3342657.stm

ABCDiamond

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3342657.stm
Not sure why yours didnt work, but this one should.

A giant crocodile in Australia has mauled a man to death in the remote Northern Territory - in front of two friends who scrambled up a tree.

loose

Oh brilliant!! Guess where I'm moving in a few months!!

Yup - Darwin. best stay in the pub!

theguitardoctor

Ok call me cynical, suspicious even, but I have to ask a few questions with regards to this event....

1. Ok, you go off quadding and stop near a salt water river to wash the dirt off the bikes...

Why would you wash a metal quad (where there's lots of alloy also) with salty water...every biker knows this stuff gets into the crevices and corrodes the bike like hell. Why not wait until they got home to wash the bikes...after all, they had a trailer.

2. It's fairly well known that Darwin has crocs..and if you go to the saltwater river, there's gonna be crocs around...

Why would you do this...especially if the salty water is undrinkable and bad for washing anything in....what would be the reason for going down to the river?

3. The croc grabbed him and the 2 friends ran off...surely this is not a normal reaction...you'd grab for a friends leg or something surely...or maybe thats just my reaction.....

4. They hid up a tree afterwards...surely if they turned to run from the croc (who was supposedly occupied dragging their friend into the river), you could run to a truck quicker than running to a tree and then climbing it.........

This is just my opinion, but something doesn't add up to me...maybe the answers to their course of action will become clear in the next few days....

Rich

WBB

aaarrghhhhh :scared: :scared:


nightmare !

bondipom

Apparently salties are not known that far up the river.