The things people do when pissed amuse me.  There’s been blokes who’ve cut their balls off, set them on fire and all sorts of shit like that.  And now, here’s another entrant to the drunken stupidity hall of fame.

A man in Broome, Western Australia, got kicked out of the pub.  At a loose end, he decided to go visit the local crocodile park.  As you would.  I can’t express this better than the police did in saying what happened, so here it is:

"For some reason he’s made a decision to climb the fence into the crocodile park, where an almost five-metre male crocodile was living,"

"He appears to have wanted to touch that crocodile and sit on its back, and the crocodile has taken offence to that and bitten him on the right leg.

"He’s absolutely lucky to be alive, this is a large male saltwater crocodile, who aren’t renowned for letting people escape once they’ve got hold of them."

Fortunately for our drunken friend, the crocodile, named Fatso, was a bit off his game, and the man was able to escape.  The owner of the park, environmentalist Malcolm Douglas, says the crocodile named Fatso is one of his largest reptiles and could crush a man in one bite. But he says last night’s cooler weather made Fatso more lethargic than usual, and this probably saved the man.

The drunken idiot ended up in hospital having surgery to repair severe lacerations to his leg.

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