Aussie man escapes jaws of crocodile by stabbing it with pocket knife
This was no watered-down experience.
An Australian man was dragged into a river by a crocodile, but saved himself by stabbing the croc in the head with a pocket knife, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
“The odds of doing that are about zero,” Matt Brien of the Queensland environmental department told CBS News.
The unidentified man went fishing Nov. 3 on his remote property near the town of Hope Vale on Australia’s far northeast Cape York Peninsula, the Queensland Department of Environment and Science said in a statement.
A bull was in his desired fishing spot, so he shooed it away, the wildlife officials said. Then, the 15-foot croc struck and yanked the man into the water by both feet. He managed to somehow hold onto the branches of a mangrove tree until he was forced to let go, then fended off the crocodile by stabbing it, authorities said.
The wildlife experts think the croc was actually going for the bull.
After his miraculous escape, the man drove himself 15 miles to the nearest hospital. He was moved to a larger facility in the city of Cairns, where he remained Tuesday, almost a week after the attack.
The man’s property is so remote that the Queensland DES won’t even try to remove the croc from the wild, according to the statement.
Crocs are so common in Queensland that the statement advised people to “Expect crocodiles in ALL Far North Queensland waterways even if there is no warning sign.”
Either that, or bring a pocket knife and hope you’re lucky.
