A Queensland man has used a pocket knife to fight off a crocodile dragging him into a river. The 60-year-old Cape York local was fishing on his property when a crocodile he had earlier shooed away returned for a dish of coldly served revenge. The reptile clamped its jaws around...
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A Queensland man has used a pocket knife to fight off a crocodile dragging him into a river.
The 60-year-old Cape York local was fishing on his property when a crocodile he had earlier shooed away returned for a dish of coldly served revenge.
The reptile clamped its jaws around the man’s boots on the banks of a remote part of the McIvor River near Hope Valley.
The man initially grabbed a mangrove tree branch and held on for grim death, but after losing his grip, he went for the kill, stabbing the beast several times in its head with his pocket knife before it let go.
He then drove himself to Cooktown Hospital, and from there he was flown to Cairns, where he is recovering from his injuries.
It’s unlikely anyone will believe his story, but he’ll for sure be telling it until the cows come home.
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