Good Grief - Pastor killed by crocodile while baptising

[jberryhill]

49. It would have been me...

Because until five minutes ago, I would not have known that Jamaica has crocodiles.

So all of those pictures in the tourist brochures of people bathing in mountain streams and pools are just there to keep them fed?



Dang.

I was in Nairobi National Park (much smaller than other parks, but I had limited time) and the guide took my wife and I down to the river with the oldest, rustiest rifle I ever did see, and I thought we were going to go look at some giraffes. At a bend in the creek, on the high undercut bank, there was a German couple who were getting really close to about an 8 foot dropoff on that side of the creek. I couldn't tell what they were looking at, and the guide gestured for me to go over and take a look... and then I see there's a crocodile chilling out right under the dodgy mud bank that they were standing on. I was like, oh hell no, I'm getting back in the van.

I think that's how they keep them fed there.

I don't know how fast they can move or how far they can get in a hurry, but I do know they eat things that are a shitload faster than I am.