What? Nobody is talking about what an idiot the Crocodile Hunter is?

[Alexander's Horse]

One thing about it was he was holding the meat in one hand and the baby in the other. The croc probably thought the meat was the entre and the baby was the main course.

[finbar]

And the missus was dessert.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
One thing about it was he was holding the meat in one hand and the baby in the other. The croc probably thought the meat was the entre and the baby was the main course.

Thank God that crocs are sticklers for table etiquette!

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
Alexander's Horse point about the handling of the child is germane. The is no way a one year old child should be handled that way, and at least in the US, if an injury resulted from that, the father would be charged, and possibly the mother if she was present and did not intervene, albeit on lesser charges.

Their neck muscles are undeveloped, and you can produce spinal cord injuries with any handling that does not support the neck and head. Having a nine month old, and also having raised younger sisters, this is something I at least have some familiarity with.

I work for the government, in aviation safety. One primary tenant is take don't chances, because a one in a ten thousand chance, per operation, when you have numbers exceeding that every day, is not safe. Irwin obviously is ignoring genuine safety, and is making a bet that he can control the situation. That is foolish at best, as evidenced by the post concerning the injuries to other crocodile hanlders. The slip/fall crocodile lunge scenario is not inane, and in fact is exactly what safety analysis is base on.

What's even worse. It would only take the slip/fall scenario (no crocodile) to permanently harm, or even kill his baby in the situation shown in that video. My wife and I take baths with our little girl, she loves it. Neither of us ever stands up in the tub while holding her. Period. We only do this when the other is about, so that we eliminate the danger (we hand her to the other person outside the tub, who is holding a towel). The man may be an expert animal handler, and a high-rating media personality. He is a safety NOOB.

Oh, Alexander's Horse, crocs are not genuinely cold-blooded, and have a partial ability to control their temperature. They represent a transition between obligate homeotherms and heterotherms, and this kind of metabolic reaction to the environment is more common than used to be realized, includes bees and sharks, though the mechanism differs with all three.

edit - misspellings and accidently posted early

[Mr. Harley]

Correction - one month babies

[Vesayen]

You know when you have a t.v. remote in one hand and a fork in the other and for ONE moment you almost think to yourself that you will eat with the remote?


A squishy full chicken in one hand, a squishy toddler in the other.... feel about the same, weigh about the same.... woops! That would of made an interesting but truley horrible news story.

[Mr. Harley]

Vesayen - it's worse when you've worked five graveyard shifts and the little one has kept you up, and you find yourself eating the babyfood instead of your food.