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A crocodile on the run from a Gaza zoo for the past 18 months was finally captured on Tuesday, police said.
GAZA - A crocodile on the run from a Gaza zoo for the past 18 months has finally been captured, police said Tuesday.
The 6-foot-long reptile was spotted several weeks ago in sewage pools in the northern Gaza Strip, and villagers complained it had been eating their livestock. Police called in fishermen, who netted the crocodile on Monday.
"He's a beautiful troublemaker," police spokesman Ayman al-Batniji said. "We really sweated to take him alive."
One local farmer reported that the crocodile ate two of his goats, according to the al-Arabiya website.
The fugitive was returned to the zoo and reunited with four other crocodiles. Owners of the zoo said the crocodile had grown considerably since his escape, and they decided to name him "Sakher", or Rock, as a tribute to his survival.
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The Crocodile was in sewer pools eating livestock? "in sewage pools in the northern Gaza Strip, and villagers complained it had been eating their livestock"
If their livestock is living in sewage pools, I say let the Crocodile have them.
The croc was spotted in a sewage pool, nothing in the article even remotely suggested that was where people were keeping livestock.
All you haters need to keep you negative comments to yourself. I say that since these folks like crocodiles, we should ship them all we can find. Poor people only have those little 6-foot fellas, right now.
Why would this make any headline in the US? I thought the word crocodile was going to be a code name for some international incident. Wow, slow news day. They need to keep their business over there.
Those guys look so well fed. I don't think the Israeli blockade is being very effective. Even the crocodile appears to be well fed. It's time to tighten the screws until Hamas gives up.
They are not trying to starve them. There are women, children and elderly also living in Gaza as well as the Hamas terrorists.
I saw the words "Gaza" and "crocodile" and thought it was terrorist with the nickname crocodile that had been caught.
18 months to catch a 6'-0" croc in the middle of a desert? How many people were hunting it?....one?
Yes.. and he has been missing for 17 months; 3 weeks; and 6 days.
They were busy stoning women for showing some thigh. Besides, with the croc hiding in the sewer, it was difficult to "sniff" him out since the cologne these camel jockies wear is much the same.
Steve! That was hilarious LOL
Maybe Hamas should have sent in a suicide bomber to take care of the little guy.
They're hard wired to eat Muslims and goats.
Really...
------ YAWN ------ Wake Thee when the wayward croc does an interview with Barbara Walters...
It is a plot by the evil zionist crocodiles to eat the entire gaza population and ruin the best tasting sewer water in the arab world.
Aren´t they missing any person? That´s too long a time for a crocodile to be out there on its own!