More news hits us from Mainland China…
A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child’s remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by investigators looking for the missing child. Investigators confirmed that human remains found in the reptile were that of the student, the report said.
The child, surnamed Liu, disappeared Friday after Liu and three other children climbed over the fence around a pool in the park that had been used to stage crocodile shows, Xinhua said.
“The children shot the animals with catapults and beat them with wooden sticks,” the agency said. “One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu’s clothes and dragged him into water, where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.”
Snipers used pork to lure the reptiles from the pool on Saturday and shot the first one that crawled ashore, the report said.
No other details were given, and it wasn’t immediately clear what would happen to the other crocodiles.
Local residents said the park’s owner had hired a keeper for the crocodiles, but it was not clear why the man was not at the site when the students broke in, the report said.
The manager and the keeper were being held by police.
When I first heard about the Crocodile in China having killed a child, I was slightly disturbed by it. And then I found that the kids had actually climbed over the safety fence and INTO the pit. What do I mean by a pit? From the TV footage I saw, there was a fence a drop of several feet - to watch any crocodile show, the audience would have been standing several feet above the crocodiles; plenty of safety and deterrent there. Regardless of what was in the pit, if I was a parent I wouldn’t like my child climbing out simply out of fear they’d break their legs.
Yet still, these kids managed to climb in and piss the crocodiles off. Why am I not surprised that it was kids from China? Why am I not surprised that the parents / a responsible adult (e.g. a teacher) were not there telling them not to climb in? It’s because they were from China. It’s constantly in the news how Chinese tourists (note: Chinese tourists from Mainland China, not Hong Kong) come out and pretty much wreck everything. These fools are embarrassing everyone. I believe the kids are to blame, and they deserve what they got. How much lack of common sense do you need to think that you can climb in next to a crocodile and start chucking rocks at it?
The parents must be incredibly ignorant, to permit their child to “torment” the reptiles. Kind of like allowing your kid to play in traffic.
And to kill the crocodile, they
borrowed two snipers from the local armed police troop.
Why does a zoo that keeps several crocodiles not have the means to control / put them down themselves?
It’s time the Chinese government spent some cash into providing compulsory social-skills and manners courses. Until then, stop visiting other countries or places within your home country; stay at home. Everyone’s fed up with your spitting, touching and breaking those that clearly say “do not touchâ€, taking a crap / urinating on public footpaths, shouting in quiet places, and everything else we don’t need your tourist money for. Oh yes, and stop immigrating to Hong Kong, you’re not really wanted here.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:19 am
i know what you’re saying. i saw a few in my town in manchester and they caused a right noise
April 28th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Haha that’s quite interesting… I was intrigued by your article and I looked for some other articles about chinese tourists etc. and the complaints about their loudness, spitting and general grossness.. but you are a little harsh