Crocs not all to blame

HERE we go, the only good croc is a dead croc brigade are out again.

If you had read the Cairns Post last week you would have seen that the biggest threat to crocs (and every other species in Australia) is the increasing encroachment of man into their habitat.

But, all this aside, there is an elephant in the room here which everybody is ignoring and, that is, at what point does human behaviour come into the equation and be recognised as a contributing factor?

For example, can walking into a river inebriated to cool off late at night or going drunk into a river to retrieve a fishing lure be all the croc’s fault?

Last year in Queensland we killed 268 people on the roads, yet we accept death by motor car as just part of life.

But a croc attack – “get the guns out”. Ian Stephens, Yorkeys Knob 1830: Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawnmower. 1897: Public reading of Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, or, The Un-dead, staged in London. 1974: India explodes a nuclear bomb in the deserts of Rajasthan state in its first use of an atomic weapon. 1980: Mount St Helens volcano in Washington state explodes, leaving 57 people dead. 1990: The two Germanys sign a monetary union treaty, the first step on the road to unification. 1995: Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov (above), whose defection from the Soviet Union catapulted him into a successful acting career, dies at age 45. 2005: US actor Frank Gorshin, best known for his role as the Riddler on the 1960s TV series Batman, dies aged 72.