A saltwater crocodile terrorized a distant Australian neighborhood by snapping up canine and lunging at children — solely to satisfy its finish in a feast cooked up by locals. The 12-foot reptile “had been stalking and lunging out of the water at youngsters and adults,” Northern Territory police said in a statement.
Northern Territory Police
“The crocodile had additionally reportedly taken a number of neighborhood canine.”
After speaking to elders and conventional landowners within the Bulla neighborhood, police shot and killed the scaly predator on Tuesday, police mentioned.
“The neighborhood ready it for a feast within the conventional method,” they mentioned.
The crocodile had migrated throughout floods earlier within the yr right into a river close to properties within the space, about six hours’ drive south of Darwin, police mentioned.
The animal ended up as the principle ingredient in numerous meals, Sergeant Andrew McBride informed Australian public broadcaster ABC.
“I consider he was cooked up into crocodile tail soup, it was on the barbecue, a number of items had been wrapped up in banana leaves and cooked underground,” McBride mentioned.
“There was a relatively massive conventional feast.”
Commander Kylie Anderson mentioned “crocodiles can pose a big threat to neighborhood security” and praised officers and residents for working carefully collectively to resolve the problem.
“There’s by no means a uninteresting second in distant policing,” Anderson mentioned.
The Northern Territory government says it “makes use of a risk-based strategic administration strategy to find out the extent of administration exercise” for crocodiles.
Crocodiles are extremely cellular, and have periodically had harmful encounters with individuals in Australia. Earlier this yr, a crocodile jumped on board a fisherman’s boat in Queensland whereas the person was fishing at a creek on New Year’s Eve.
Last yr, the highest politician in Australia’s Northern Territory mentioned it was “time to think about” a return to crocodile culling after an assault at a preferred swimming spot.
In May 2023, a person snorkeling off the coast of North Queensland, Australia, was attacked by a crocodile – and survived by prying its jaws off his head. That similar month, the stays of an Australian man who went lacking on a fishing journey in crocodile-infested waters had been discovered inside two of the reptiles.
