No, no! Look again at the pic, that croc was armed to the teeth!
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Well for your next punning session, try the following.
Good grief! Who’d work in a friggin’ zoo?
HG
[quote]Argentine zookeeper dies after anteater attack
April 13, 2007 - 8:08AM
A young Argentine zookeeper who worked on a giant anteater conservation project has died after she was attacked by an anteater who mauled her abdomen and legs with its sharp front claws.[/quote][/quote]
And to think that last week after all that rain we were antsy to get out and go to the zoo.
But an anteater?! Good lord, what’s next? Zoo vet devoured by giant slug? 
Apparently the crocodile didn’t want to be put to sleep and ate something that disagreed with him.
Update you won’t find in the English papers:
- The surgery to reattach the arm so far seems to be a success
- The TT reported that the croc was killed, but a zoo official said that no bullets were found in the crocodile and it is alive and well. It’s a miracle !
- The crocodile was rescued from being someone’s pet.
You mean the cops sent two bullets elsewhere, again? Lordy, lordy! What clowns!
Thanks for the updates, this is a delightful tale, all the better on learning the vet’s arm is on the mend.
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]You mean the cops sent two bullets elsewhere, again? Lordy, lordy! What [/quote]They might have just bounced off, crocodiles do have thick skin. TT reporting at the usual standard though.
Would be funny (but not ha ha funny) if they end up finding a bullet or two in the guy’s arm.
Oooh! That is awful, but I nearly pissed myself at the thought of it! Good god! What if they shot it off!!!??? 
HG
Well, at least the boots won’t have any holes in them.
Keep watching the headlines for something like … “Stray bullet hits man in shower” …
I can just see it now: in a year or two, the vet will be explaining his scars to people. “Here’s where the croc ripped my arm off. And here are the bullet holes where the cops shot me in the arm, except it didn’t hurt because the croc had already torn the arm off.”
Sounds like the end of an awesome magic trick I can sell to Siegfried & Roy: The mysterious thing is that when they pull out the arm, the hand is holding the bullets!
Now, I just have to figure out how to do that.
Sorry, the vet was putting his arm into the cage to administer a tranquiliser? This a vet? Like a bloke with a degree in Veterinary Science and stuff? Or a “vet” in the way the Shui Dian guy down the road is an “electrician”?
The Taiwanese cops definitely need more small-arms practice. Maybe the now small-armed vet can teach them. Do I win £50?
[quote]Arm biting croc wrongly identified
Agence France-Presse
April 14, 2007
A TAIWANESE zoo today admitted that it has mistakenly identified for eight years a crocodile that bit off a vet’s left forearm.
A local wildlife expert viewing dramatic television footage of Wednesday’s attack pointed out that the animal resembled a saltwater crocodile from Asia rather a Nile crocodile from Africa.
The reptile, kept at the Shou Shan Zoo in Kaohsiung city, bit off the vet’s arm and held it in its mouth.
It only let go when a police officer fired two bullets into its body, in scenes caught on camera and broadcast around the world.
The zoo admitted that it made an identification error.
“After an examination by the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, it is determined that the animal is a saltwater crocodile,” zoo official Chen Po-tsai said as the sign “(N)ile crocodile” was replaced with the correct name.
“We have a shortage of staff with only three vets and three technicians. It is difficult to distinguish the species without a team of experts”, he said.
Chang Po-yu, the 38-year-old vet who was attacked, was recovering in a stable condition in hospital after six hours of surgery which re-attached his arm.
Meanwhile, the 300-kilogramme male crocodile survived the shooting and is now attracting lots of visitors to its enclosure, zoo officials said.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21555939-5001028,00.html
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They also give Alaskan Bears heated floors that make their fur fall out. Even I can guess that Alaskan Bears prefer the cold. And the put lions on low ground when they prefer higher ground.
CROC’S A DISARMING BEAST
By CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!
A groggy but grateful zoo veterinarian waved from his hospital bed yesterday after doctors in Taipei, Taiwan, were able to reattach his left arm, which was torn off by a grouchy, 440-pound crocodile.
The vet failed to notice that the 17-year-old croc was not completely anesthetized when he stuck his left arm through the metal bars of the cage to pull a tranquilizer dart from its hide Wednesday.
Before Chang Po-yu had time to pull his arm away, the woozy crocodile snapped it off with his powerful jaws and began to nosh on the five-finger feast.
As Chang was rushed to a hospital, a zoo worker shot the croc in the neck twice, which forced the reptile to drop the limb, said Kaohsiung zoo official Chen Po-tsun. But the reptile’s thick hide saved him from becoming a suitcase.
“We didn’t find any bullet holes on its hide,” Chen said. “It probably was shocked and opened its mouth to let go of the limb.”
Kaohsiung croc has yet another surprise for zoo
By Flora Wang
STAFF REPORTER
Sunday, Apr 15, 2007, Page 2
The crocodile that bit off a vet’s forearm at Kaohsiung’s Shoushan Zoo on Wednesday had another surprise for authorities on Friday.
As well as not being tranquilized when the vet tried to treat it and surviving being shot after reports said it had been killed, it now turns out that the reptile belongs to a different species of crocodile than was originally believed.
In a press release issued by the zoo after the crocodile bit off veterinarian Chang Po-yu’s (張博宇) left forearm on Wednesday afternoon, the zoo identified the animal as a Nile crocodile.
But on Friday evening, the zoo admitted having mistaken the reptile’s species after a report on Pingtung Technology University’s Wild Animal Information Web site stated that the crocodile was a salt-water crocodile.
“The zoo apologizes for the incorrect information,” said Chen Po-tsai (陳伯材), a deputy section chief from the zoo yesterday as authorities were replacing the illustration signboard in front of the crocodile’s stockade.
A report was carried out on the request of the zoo after a crocodile breeder in Tainan saw media coverage of the accident and challenged the zoo’s identification of the crocodile.
The zoo at first defended its identification on Friday morning, but admitted its mistake later in the day.
According to the expert report, salt-water crocodiles are not considered an endangered species in countries such as Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, but Taiwan has listed it as a first-grade endangered species.
Wednesday’s accident happened when Chang was treating the croc, which he mistakenly thought had been sedated with anesthetic darts.
When he reached to pull a dart from the animal’s head, the crocodile bit off his left forearm.
Chang was rushed to the Emergency Room at Chung Ho Memorial Hospital while zoo staff and police struggled to recover his limb from the crocodile.
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They didn’t even know what kind of crocodile they had? Some “experts” they’ve got. As if we didn’t already peg them for f*ckups for sticking their arms into a croc’s mouth to retrieve the tranq dart? Like a dart is worth, what, TWD 100 or so?
Also interesting that they were willing to waste what they thought was a “first-grade endangered species.”
HG
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Also interesting that they were willing to waste what they thought was a “first-grade endangered species.”
HG[/quote]
I didn’t realised Taiwanese zoo vets were endangered.