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04-14-2007, 09:50 AM
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Radical Centrist
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April 14, 2007: Veterinarian loses arm to crocodile [warning: kinda graphic]
 This item was found elsewhere on the Cellar but not really catalogued, so I'll post this anyway and plug in more detail. full story It all happened at the Shaoshan Zoo in Taiwan. And they were following procedure, it appears; the croc was first hit with a tranquilizer dart, but when the vet went to handle it, the tranquilizer had not taken effect for some reason. And bam, the arm's off. It's almost educational to see it, because with Steve Irwin and whatnot, we've only seen successful croc handling by those who know what to do.  So another zoo worker shot the croc with an actual gun, which caused it to drop the arm and stalk away. What's weird is that they didn't find a bullet hole in the croc later - it was hit, but not punctured, and left the arm out of a state of shock ("did that dude just shoot me? WTF").   Now the good news: the arm was reattached after a seven-hour surgery. |
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04-14-2007, 10:03 AM
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A serene breakdown
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04-14-2007, 10:06 AM
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Practically God
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I forsee many "need a hand?" jokes.
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04-14-2007, 10:09 AM
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Cantankerous Incantonator
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don't believe anyone who say croc's are basically 'armless creatures
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04-14-2007, 10:33 AM
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Master Dwellar
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What? You've never seen a crocodile handbag before?
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04-14-2007, 10:38 AM
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I Love Lamp
Join Date: Apr 2007
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I guess this makes me the first today to make a tasteless (ha ha) reference to eating the image of the day. I have to say, I can't blame the crocodile. That veterinarian looks delicious.
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04-16-2007, 06:58 PM
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Wang Dude
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Location: South Carolina
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He's Oriental. Half an hour later you'd be hungry again. As to shooting the croc, it looks like a saltie. Anything short of armour peircing your just pissing him off. This picture made me smile actually. I am a herp keeper. I expect that my obit will contain the line "They found him with it's teeth still in his throat." |
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04-18-2007, 07:34 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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04-18-2007, 09:06 PM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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This is the version that the newspapers wouldn't print. Who needs PhotoShop when the GIMP is available for free?
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04-21-2007, 10:28 AM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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I thought it looked pretty good for being hand-drawn.
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04-14-2007, 10:45 AM
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Franklin Pierce
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Minnesota
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God, I wonder how much that would hurt? Damn.
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04-14-2007, 11:35 AM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Yeah, crocs don't really have cutting-style teeth. They're more get-a-good-grip-and rip-style.
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04-14-2007, 11:37 AM
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I Love Lamp
Join Date: Apr 2007
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ouch
must have been tough work for the surgeons if it was just ripped off. I wonder if it still works properly. At least the crocodile didn't eat it.
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04-14-2007, 01:27 PM
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erika
Join Date: Apr 2006
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All the papers here have his big smiling mug on the cover now, big ol' thumbs-up for all the people who were SO worried by the incident.
Actually, there's a big uproar cause when it first happened, a buncha papers ran the story with the graphic picture (the second one UT used), and now people are all up in arms (ooh, ouch.) about the graphic violence.
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04-14-2007, 01:40 PM
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A serene breakdown
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The zoo authorities are probably wishing they had put in some extra sessions of animal dress-up practice beforehand. Now we understand why such a thing might have been useful.
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