Look what was found in the waters of New Orleans...

[LissaKokoKiwiKaseySam]

Are we really?


Internet rumors are part of today's society...like death and taxes. Try to be a bit more understanding, please. If you are able to prove that something posted here is rumor, please point us to a link. It saves hurt feelings. Everybody makes mistakes..it comes with breathing.

[LissaKokoKiwiKaseySam]

Here is part of the text that reveals the actual truth of those photos..courtesy of Snopes...


Origins: No, a 21-foot crocodile has been not been found swimming around the flooded streets of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. These photographs were taken in a very different part of the world over two years ago, and someone has simply altered the text that originally accompanied the pictures in e-mail forwards and changed the locale to New Orleans:
Monster in Pointe Noire

This crocodile was on the beach in front of the Petroleum club, Plage Sportive In Pointe Noire. 21 FT long, 4,500 lbs, around 80 years old minimum.

Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to catch animals. For the past few months in some villages close to Pointe Noire people were complaining that some people in their villages have been disappearing, could be this crocodile. This crocodile was killed by the army last Sunday at 3:00 pm, currently he is in the freezer at the Azur hotel.

These photographs actually show a crocodile that was shot and killed on 6 July 2003 at Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo. According to an article in allafrica.com, the reptile was a Nile crocodile whose vital statistics fell a bit short of the claims made above: he was estimated to be 50 years old, about 16 feet in length, and about 1,900 lbs. (not quite the 80-year-old, 21-foot, 4,500-pound monster described in e-mail). The local mayor reportedly insisted on preserving the crocodile's carcass against the efforts of locals who wanted to eat it and arranged for it to be shipped to a taxidermist

[Rue]

...we still shouldn't be so ready to kill it...

[Freedomoflight]

Yeah, why kill it? Its an animal for goodness sakes- animals have feelings to, but I guess people dont care, obviously.

[BirdzRmylife]

Sounded like a hoax as soon as I read it...lol, I'm not even sure they are crocodiles in New orleans... possibly alligators, however.

[paultheparrotlover]

Originally Posted by Rue

...we still shouldn't be so ready to kill it...

Maybe it tastes like chicken. We could feed it to our birds.

[Rue]

...if it's farmed and meant for consumption I'd at least taste it to see if I like it...

...but I think it's wrong to kill something wild 'just because' if there are workable alternatives, such as relocation...

...we're doing enough damage to our environment and the other species we share the planet with as is...