ELVIS THE CROCODILE STEALS LAWNMOWER!!!!!!!

**bb1** Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:40 pm

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Elvis The Croc Steals Gardener's Lawnmower

ELVIS THE CROCODILE STEALS LAWNMOWER!!!!!!! 16138572

Elvis the croc with his prized possession

10:17am UK, Wednesday December 28, 2011
Jonathan Samuels, Australia correspondent
An Australian zoo keeper had a lucky escape when an angry crocodile clamped his jaw onto a lawnmower being used to tidy the reptile's enclosure.

Billy Collett was mowing the grass when the crocodile called Elvis leapt out of the water at the reptile park and snatched the still running mower from his hands.
"It happened that fast, it was that scary," said Collett from the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney.
"We'd just started mowing, the croc's sitting about five foot away from me in the water, then (the) next second he's attached to the end of the mower, dragging it in, and almost taking me into the drink with him.
"My heart almost jumped out of my chest."

Tim Faulkner, the park's operations manager, said Collett was right to abandon the mower to the five metre long croc who was rescued from the wild after he began attacking fishing boats in the northern city of Darwin.
"It's pretty well known that crocs don't like lawnmowers," Faulkner said.
"Normally we can get out of his way... and obviously you keep the mower between you and the croc. But this particular time he just come quick."
"You're not going to win with a 500 kilo croc on the other end," he added.
Elvis snatched the mower and dragged it to the bottom of his pool where he jealously guarded it until his keepers could distract him with fresh kangaroo meat.
"We lured the croc around one side with a food item, and whilst he was there jumping for his food I just jumped into the water, grabbed the mower and scarpered (ran away)," Faulkner said.
"We don't want a mower sitting in the bottom of the pool for him to play with."
The encounter cost the 50-year-old Elvis a couple of his huge teeth and the zoo a mower, but Faulkner said he still loved the cantankerous beast, who was removed from another reptile farm after killing some of his female companions.
"I love him. I absolutely love him. He's cranky."

His namesake never could say NO to food, either.......