BEIJING, China (AP) -- 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 Guangxiregion, 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, Xinhuasaid.
"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.
either way, they would have had to kill it to get the kid's remains.Yep. Sure was crucial to retrieve a kid's chewed up, mangled, half-digested body parts. Definitely necessary. They might as well have waited for the croc to poop out the pieces and collect them one by one.
In July 1994, Kathryn Warburton, an Australian tourist, climbed over the second of two safety rails to get a close-up photograph and was bitten as the bear stuck his head through the bars and grabbed her. She suffered a broken leg and bite wounds. Another tourist caught the event on tape. Binky kept the woman's shoe for three days before it could be retrieved by zoo officials, and the day after the attack a news photographer took the iconic image of Binky with a shoe in his mouth that was printed in almost every press account of the incident.
The next event, six weeks later, involved drunken local teens who apparently hoped to swim in Binky's pool. Joshua J. Huyett, 19, was hospitalized with leg lacerations after he got too close to the polar bear's cage and was mauled.
Making fun of dead 9-year-olds really isn't cool, Nikki. Kids do a TON of stupid stuff, they don't deserve to die because of it. I blame the parents of the poor kid...obviously they did a piss-poor job of bringing him up.
I just think it's a sad story.
I present to you, the story, the lenged, of Binky.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Binky.GIF)QuoteIn July 1994, Kathryn Warburton, an Australian tourist, climbed over the second of two safety rails to get a close-up photograph and was bitten as the bear stuck his head through the bars and grabbed her. She suffered a broken leg and bite wounds. Another tourist caught the event on tape. Binky kept the woman's shoe for three days before it could be retrieved by zoo officials, and the day after the attack a news photographer took the iconic image of Binky with a shoe in his mouth that was printed in almost every press account of the incident.
The next event, six weeks later, involved drunken local teens who apparently hoped to swim in Binky's pool. Joshua J. Huyett, 19, was hospitalized with leg lacerations after he got too close to the polar bear's cage and was mauled.
and oddly enough, nobody in Anchorage was all that mad at the bear.