Australian fishermen battle cheeky, 6-foot long saltwater crocodile to keep shark
A group of Australian mates on an annual fishing holiday was not going to let anything come between them and their prize catch _ not even a marauding crocodile.
The friends landed a small shark on a beach recently in the tropical north of Australia _ also home to wild saltwater crocodiles known to attack humans.
As they dragged the shark ashore with the help of a hooked pole, a croc about 6-feet (2-meters) long emerged from the water, ran up the beach to the flailing shark, and opened its jaws menacingly.
Unperturbed, the fisherman holding the hook banged it down on the head of the crocodile, which turned tail and scrambled quickly back into the water.
The incident was captured on video and posted on YouTube, where it gained a popular following and attention from Australian media.
"He was full on," Bob Callan, one of the anglers told Nine Network television Friday, describing the croc's lunge. "He was going for that shark right or wrong, then it was _ bang _ hit him on the snout and away he went."
After dispatching the reptile, the video shows the anglers lined up behind the shark on the beach for photos _ with their backs to the water. One casts a nervous eye over his shoulder, and another jumps as his neighbor gives him a sly pinch on the leg.
Callan said the friends, from the New South Wales town of Inverell, travel to the north every year for a fishing holiday, and the shark _ like all the fish they catch _ was released back into the wild.
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Chicken playing chicken with motorists on busy Calif. street has avoided capture for 2 months
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A black hen is shown Friday Jan. 29, 2010 at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Calif., that has been dodging cars, captors and coyotes for two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggle to catch it.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)
A chicken playing chicken? That's what's happening on a busy Glendale street where a black hen has been dodging cars, captors and coyotes for two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggle to catch it.
A spokeswoman for the Pasadena Humane Society, which handles animal control in Glendale, said the bird either runs onto the street or flies into a tree when officers approach. Hillary Gatlin said a humane trap has not worked because the chicken doesn't weigh enough to trigger it or she isn't interested in the feed used as bait.
Gatlin said the standoff could continue awhile.
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