> “You’ve ever eaten cat? It’s not bad,” he says. For a few months in high school, Tommie and Brian lived in a tent on the banks of the Meramec River. Food was scarce. “The cat kept hanging around — fat motherfucker. I said, ‘I was hungry, so I’m gonna go get it.’ It was more of a vendetta than anything because he kept shitting and pissing everywhere. So I set up a snare to get him. I got him, skinned him like a rabbit — put a stick up his ass all the way through his mouth and then put him over a fire.” How did it taste? “Oily, man. Oily.”
Rural America is suffering. Even while writing an article that attempts to be empathetic about a tragic death that went viral, Buzzfeed cannot resist poking fun; and HN commenters cannot resist joining in. The US is doomed.
I know a couple of people who have seen them in the water while diving (for barramundi) in areas they thought were too far south for crocs. And there's some crazy divers who dive in Darwin harbour which to me seems insane, but they've been doing it for 30 years.
But typically no you wouldn't knowingly get in the water with them. You do hear of tourists getting taken from time to time.
Dang. I googled it and you're right. They swim in Darwin Harbor. They have triathlons and competitions and stuff.
Gators and Crocs freak me out on some lizard brain level. I could never get in the water knowing there's even the possibility.
Watching this video of a croc along side a fishing boat gives me chills.
> “You’ve ever eaten cat? It’s not bad,” he says. For a few months in high school, Tommie and Brian lived in a tent on the banks of the Meramec River. Food was scarce. “The cat kept hanging around — fat motherfucker. I said, ‘I was hungry, so I’m gonna go get it.’ It was more of a vendetta than anything because he kept shitting and pissing everywhere. So I set up a snare to get him. I got him, skinned him like a rabbit — put a stick up his ass all the way through his mouth and then put him over a fire.” How did it taste? “Oily, man. Oily.”