Croc bites man

A 1.4m crocodile on the prowl in Karama, where it bit a man trying to wrangle it away from pets A SMALL cul-de-sac in Karama turned into a scene of shock and horror last night as a man was bitten by an itinerant 1.4m crocodile.

The shock came first when a stray saltie was found splayed across the middle of Wearing Cres about 8.30pm.

Then came the horror, with a man rushed to hospital after attempting to manually manoeuvre the croc away from an imperilled hound.

Amanda Bowen, the man’s neighbour, said he was bitten “quite severely”.

“There was heaps of blood,” Ms Bowen said. “He might have been in some serious pain, but he didn’t show it.”

Although the man’s decision to pick up the apex predator was, at best, questionable, Ms Bowen said he was putting his body on the line for the greater good.

“He was just trying to help out and contain it,” she said.

“Our street has a lot of ani- mals, and the house the croc was closest to had a barking dog at its fence – he didn’t want the dog to get attacked.”

The freaky Friday fiasco has Parks and Wildlife NT echoing their message for Territorians to stay “crocwise’.

“With the warmer weather and rain, it increases the ability of crocodiles to move around, and this is a reminder that crocodiles can turn up anywhere this time of year,” a Parks and Wildlife spokesman told the NT News.