i think this calls for a darwin award

[xnikki118x]

Sorry to anyone who is offended by kids dying/doesn't like dead baby jokes. Don't read further if you're one of those people.

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.

This is sad and everything and I feel terrible for this poor kid's family....but the kids were launching things at these crocodiles with a catapult and beating them with sticks! I mean, how stupid can you be? When you were 9 did you know enough not to mess around with animals that could potentially kill you, or if you were to mess with them, do it from a safe distance away with a huge barrier between you? You certainly don't get close enough to beat them with a stick!

Also, how is this the park keeper's fault? Poor guy probably already feels guilty but I don't see how he did anything wrong.

[BlackMage]

THE CROCS MUST DIE!

[cloudwalking]

[Candyflip]

Why the hell do all the animals involved in these stories always end up dead? From the story it seems like they weren't sure it even ate him until after they shot it. What does that accomplish? They couldn't have sedated it and figured out what happened by other means? Idiot kid. Terrible that he died, but I'm not sure what you'd expect antagonizing a 10+ foot animal. Oh well. One less (apparent) distinguished mentally-challenged fellow in the gene pool.

[cloudwalking]

either way, they would have had to kill it to get the kid's remains.

[Candyflip]

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.

[cloudwalking]

i'm as big an animal lover as the next person (i'm even a vegetarian!) but if one day some huge grizzly bear mauled me to death and ate my carcass, i would sure as hell hope that someone would kill it and give me a proper burial before i was completely digested and shat out.

of course, i'd be dead at the time, so i guess i wouldn't have much say in the matter.

[Candyflip]

Eh. If it were in the wild and you were attacked randomly, I think it'd be a different. This was some jackass tormenting an animal forced to live in captivity. Not his fault people are dicks.
The funny thing is, I don't even particularly like animals. It just seems illogical that they killed the crocodile for next to nothing. But w/e.

[bluemax]

Isn't this old? I swear I saw the pics of them cutting the kid out before.

[Beezy]

That pic. Stupid kid.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I present to you, the story, the lenged, of Binky.

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.

and oddly enough, nobody in Anchorage was all that mad at the bear.

[xnikki118x]

I like the bear with the shoe fetish.


I know this happened in China and all and their laws are different...but if it had happened in the US, do you think the parents could be charged with endangering the welfare of a child, for not supervising their kid around deadly animals?


Oh and Cloud, you get a million more cool points from me for that photo. If it's real it's even more awesome.

[cloudwalking]

yep, it's real. a croc ripped off his vet's arm.

[xnikki118x]

HIS VET?! Poor vet! That's very sad. Much sadder than the dead stupid boy.

Am I going to hell? I think so.

[Ichirou]

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.

[Human Snorenado]

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.

You know what's sadder than that?

What's red all over and screams constantly?

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Peeled baby in a bag of salt!

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[Tauntaun]

   Cloud    wtf with that pic?

[Scurvy Stan]

I present to you, the story, the lenged, of Binky.

(Image removed from quote.)

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.

and oddly enough, nobody in Anchorage was all that mad at the bear.

Yeah, because ppl in alaska know it's only the stupid tourists that head towards the bears.