Originally Posted by C/1Lt Henderson

Beautifully written...hahaha...But how do you get to the croc/gator in the first place? dont they lunge at you in surprise? Its gotta be harder than just hold on for the ride....

yeah, they will lunge. reminds me, we saw 15 gators last sunday within 300 yards of each other.

Biggest gator I've ever seen was a humongulous twelve-footer. If you get close to that , do what I did when I mistook a cobia for a sand tiger shark (from overhead). Jump back in the boat and say, "SHOOT THIS ************!"

Yep, thats my reaction too...haha. One time I was fishing with my uncle, and we were in some deep woods ok? This aint no stocked pond, this was the wild fish.On the way up, there was some waist high grass around either side of the "trail." Suddenly, I hear a hissing sound...I turn tail, run back to the truck, grab the glock, fly back up to where we were, and use a hiking stick to part the grass so I could shoot the "snake." When my uncle parted the grass, there was a GOOSE! It was wounded and so it had climbed up on land...We got too close to it and it hissed...Uncle Chris then told me I jumped 4ft. up(not a fishermans exaggeration either)and turned 180 degrees in the air...He was laughing his ass off.I didnt speak to him for the rest of that day.

Originally Posted by C/1Lt Henderson

Im surprised at you Lt...what happened to "never leave a man behind"?

There's a difference between never leaving someone behind vs. letting the idiots get their due.

As Goose says in "Top Gun": "The Department of Defense regrets to inform you that your sons were killed because they were STUPID."

Ted, if you're going to do the croc rodeo thing, we have to come up with a better name for you. How about "Stumpy?"

I had a nifty video around here somewhere of a rodeo gone bad somewhere in Asia. The wrangler did the nifty little "tap the inside of their mouth so their jaws snap shut" trick just a bit too slow. His arm was engulfed up to the shoulder when the beastie when into its death roll. When the video ended, it looked like most of the idiot's arm was still attached. Didn't look especially comfortable, though.

yeeeeeooouuucccchhh!

Alright, time for somebody from the Land Of Croc Wrestling to get involved.

If you want to wrestle a croc come to Australia, anywhere up the top end will do. Just go swimming, especially after dark.... you'll meet them. Just a note, the salt water ones are especially agressive and foul tempered. Not unusual to see them around the 3 metre long mark. Big buggers, sharp teeth.... I don't think they have many friends.

Is it really as simple as "hold on and dont let go"?

Originally Posted by Ted

This is to two step croc guige I am writing. Do you guys like it?

Ted, just leave it. You aren't Steve Irwing on Animal Planet...

Originally Posted by AJChenMPH

All I can add to this thread -- if you ever decide to "tame" one of those things, and I hear you cry "MEDIC!", I AIN'T comin' to help.

Well Chen, I don't think I really like your defeatist talk. It is an attitude like this that precedes defeat! Haven't they taught you that in the academy? But reading the other posts, I am simply amazed by the amount of defeatism on this board. You'll know that Holland is a tiny country, but we ruled the world for over a century. Now you know why, bold actions, excellent skills and fear is not an option!

And on how to get to the reptile.... simple:
1) Stay downwind, because they have an acute sense of smell.
2) Be even stiller then they are floating in the water like a leaf.
3) Be more explosive then c4 when springing into action.

Follow these steps and you can domesticate crocs, alligators and caymans! Easy as pie!

And now Ted has just demonstrated to all those who may have doubted that in the Netherlands hashish is legal to smoke that it is indeed allowed.

No fair not bringing enough for the whole class Ted, tsk tsk.