Crocodile hunter holds son while feeding crocodile

[woodard]

Originally posted by Bdubb
I don't agree with what he did at all. However, looking at it a different way...

He lives on the zoo and has since he was a little kid himself. Chances are he knows the limits of the different animals and knows far more than we do as to the animals capabilities. With him living on the zoo, his children will be raised around these animals and will more than likely follow in their father and mothers foot steps.

I in no way think what he did was a good idea, yet I also cannot relate to his situation, his knowledge, or the fact that his back yard has animals far worse than that croc in it. I also believe that if something were to have happened that he would see to it that he was the one bitten and not the baby. While he's being eaten I'm sure someone would have saved the baby. While watching the video on TV, you can see that the baby is being held behind him while he is feeding the croc and that at all times he is watching what the animal is doing and the moves it is making.

:agree:

[Trojanmn2]

Did anybody see the NBC today show interview with him from Australia. The fucking feedback transmission took like 5-7 second per response. He seemed so narrow minded in his responses and his defense. He sounded outrageously stupid as hell. I don't know what it was, but I couldn't help laughing as Matt Lauer couldn't get a question in. The croc hunter claimed life down under is very different and did you see any of the audience's reaction to him? They were laughing and going along with it, there was no outcry or boos from the crowd from what we can tell in the clips though it could be edited

[RebelAngel]

He annoys me with his aussie accent... seriously... though maybe its just the false excitement tone of voice he usually has.

That aside... I used to raise pythons, all were docile animals that my daughter had some form of interaction with... big and small, though the cages were locked, when they were out she touched and held them. Then she went to grandmas out in the country and ran in the house bragging about the "BIG red snake I almost caught my mom!" Dad killed a copperhead in the chicken pen the next day... was close to 5 feet long, very likely the snake my daughter was trying to catch in the front yard the day before!

Needless to say I had to sit down my 5 year old and explain that she should NEVER touch a snake that didnt belong to mommy and that mommy didnt want a caught wild snakes... then of course the lesson on poisonous snakes (she had NO idea!!!)

So.... the fact that (in his eyes) he thought he was teaching his children (teach an infant????) about the dangerous animals outside was honorable to a certain extent (like maybe for the OLDER children... that baby didnt learn jack shit from that experience... total publicity stunt!) as it's something I shoulda learned and done with my daughter before she risked her life trying to catch a copperhead for me.

WTF would he do if those gators/crocs had his children in their mouths???? He should teach them of the dangers from the living room window and tell the baby later when it can understand.