Australians Risk Jurassic Parkesque Incident - Crocs Displeased
July 14th, 2008 by Jonathan DudleyVegemite, the car radio, Speedos® and the inflatable escape slide. Australia has offered a mixed bag of inventions to the international community, the latest Ozzie innovation may well be the strangest of all.
The owners of new Crocosaurus Cove theme park in Darwin have developed what may well be a unique visitor attraction, the “Cage of Death” (Catchy name huh?)
The creatively named attraction consists of a ten foot tall, four centimetre thick acrylic box. Nothing scary there right? Wrong! Once inside the box, lucky tourists will be plunged into the lair of “Choppa” - a 17 foot saltwater crocodile who has apparently lost booth front arms/paws/claws-of-croccy-doom in fights with other crocodiles. Thrill-seeking tourists or other people keen on getting within nibbling distance of a creature, so well suited to its environment that it has hardly evolved since the times of the dinosaur, will enjoy 15 full minute’s in Choppa’s charming company.
I’m no crocodile expert, but I’m pretty sure if you dangle a tourist into the home of a handicapped prehistoric killing machine several times a day its going to get pretty mad. We’ve all seen Jurassic Park, we all know what happens - a good percentage of people present get eaten, some while on the toilet, bad times. Considering the park will home 100 crocodiles 76 snakes and lizards and 40 turtles (of the non-teenage mutant variety) I sincerely hope that Choppa and his reptilian chums don’t take offence to the gawking tourist in their pond.
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