Thursday, May 06, 2010

I think the line I once read was "Nature doesn't care that you're human,

just that you're protein."
An American studying at Sotheby's Art Institute in London has been killed in a crocodile attack in India.

3 comments:

  1. Windy Wilson8:04 AM

    I remember reading in Jeff Cooper's Commentaries that on average Crocs take a human being every day in Africa.
    Some people's attitude about the dangers of wildlife seems to be the same as the medic in the Bill Mauldin cartoon, standing above a foxhole in the dark smoking a cigarette, "It's ok, Joe, I'm a non-combatant

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  2. One of Capstick's books he mentioned the average number in Africa every year, it was pretty sizeable, and he thought it low; a successful croc attack generally leaves no evidence, so if someone disappears near a river...

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  3. Anonymous9:24 AM

    Darwin raises his ugly head again. Apparently he rents space in that family's house. Last year the dead woman's sister died from a fall while mountain climbing.

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