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Monster 6.5m killer croc shot
      #165767 - 05/08/10 04:57 PM




Monster 6.5m killer croc shot

August 5th, 2010

THIS monster 6.5m croc had to be killed by locals in a remote Territory Aborigine community because it was killing their cattle.

Jeida Francis, 23, said the croc was caught in Manangoora, an outstation 56km east of Borroloola in the mid nineties.

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"It was massive. There were three huge ones out there. One of them is still out there at the moment.

Wow... that's a BIG croc

"It is pretty well fed," he said of the dead saltie.

"It took two LandCruisers to pull it out. They have one croc that is still out there. He should be getting to this size by now."

The photo was taken in the community in 1997. But it appeared on news websites two years ago claiming to be from Albert River, near Burketown in Queensland. See the Cairns croc story here

Mr Francis said his younger cousin Shaye - who was the little girl in the picture - put the photo on her Facebook page two years ago; that photo had been ripped from the page and circulated on various emails.

Get out of that water!

Mr Francis said he spent his childhood growing up with the predators.

"We used to get dugong bones to feed them, to keep them from feeding on our goats ... this one was getting too nasty and too close. It was attacking our cattle."


http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/08/05/169811_ntnews.html

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Re: Monster 6.5m killer croc shot [Re: NitroX]
      #165768 - 05/08/10 04:58 PM

Whose croc is it anyway?

NICK CALACOURAS

August 5th, 2010

A cross-border dispute has erupted with Queensland over who owns the monster croc on today's front page.

The Northern Territory News displayed the picture of the slaughtered croc from Manangoora, an outstation 56km east of Borroloola.

Jeida Francis, 23, said he was just a boy when the croc was killed in 1997 because it was attacking the community's cattle.

Where do you think this croc is from? Leave your comments.

But Chas Cole, from Katherine, said the photo was taken four years ago in Queensland.

"It was a friend of mine, who was a structural engineer, who took the photo," he said.

"It tangled himself on the cables and drowned to death".

Mr Cole said his friend took the photo half way between Normanton and Karumba in North Queensland.

"He sent me an email and said, 'look at this'."

Mr Cole said he put the photo on his Facebook page and someone must have stolen the photo.

But the photo also appeared in the Cairns Post in December 2008.

This photo claimed the croc was shot in the Albert River, near Burkestown, and the killer was still on the loose.

The article said the investigation was hampered because the crocs head was chopped off - even though the head is clearly visible in the picture.

But Mr Francis yesterday insisted that the picture was from the Northern Territory.

"I remember when it happened. My aunt took the photo," he said.

He said the little girl in the photo was his cousin, Shaye, who posted the photo of Facebook two years ago.

"Someone must have ripped it off her page and started circulating it in an email," he said.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/08/05/170091_ntnews.html

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Re: Monster 6.5m killer croc shot [Re: NitroX]
      #165775 - 05/08/10 07:01 PM

It's a bit bloated, eh.

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