Croc Botherer no more
Sad news this morning with the passing of pet pesterer the Aussie Croc Botherer. Never saw his programmes but most of the time I understand he was doing the equivalent of running a stick up and down the bars of a cage to aggravate the inhabitant. Okay, so he was doing it in the wild, there was no cage and the animal in question was normally a snake, but the principal is the same.
I have a pact with animals. I don’t annoy them and they taste good. What worries me about people prodding lizards and so on for entertainment is that it’s not really entertaining. Animals interact with animals, not people. If you prod a lizard of COURSE it’s going to get annoyed.
So hearing that he’d been impaled by a stingray was, while of course a tragedy and blah blah blah also, in some way, a clear case of messing with the bull and getting the horns. Or rather getting killed by a really big fish.
I have a pact with animals. I don’t annoy them and they taste good. What worries me about people prodding lizards and so on for entertainment is that it’s not really entertaining. Animals interact with animals, not people. If you prod a lizard of COURSE it’s going to get annoyed.
So hearing that he’d been impaled by a stingray was, while of course a tragedy and blah blah blah also, in some way, a clear case of messing with the bull and getting the horns. Or rather getting killed by a really big fish.
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Wait, that guy died? The same one who dangled his baby in front of a crocodile's mouth last year? I haven't been watching the news (no, hell hasn't frozen over) as I've wasted my entire "holiday" weekend (i have an extra day off) by staring out into space wondering how I've acquired so much junk and how long I might possibly be living here---and that maybe I could just leave it all in boxes until I move again.
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