{"id":3129,"date":"2007-08-14T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/crocodiles-trap-australian-ran.html"},"modified":"2007-08-14T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T09:42:00","slug":"crocodiles-trap-australian-ran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/crocodiles-trap-australian-ran.html","title":{"rendered":"Crocodiles trap Australian rancher up a tree for a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wonder what happened to the horse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An Australian rancher described Tuesday how he spent a week up a tree in a remote crocodile-infested swamp as maneaters stalked him — after he fell off his horse.
\nThe manager of the Silver Plains cattle station in the far northeast Cape York peninsular, David George, said he watched crocodiles’ eyes glowing red beneath him for seven nights before he was rescued by helicopter.
\n“Every night I was stalked by two crocs who would sit at the bottom of the tree staring up at me,” George told Brisbane’s Courier Mail newspaper.
\n“All I could see was two sets of red eyes below me and all night I had to listen to a big bull croc bellowing a bit further out.
\n[…]
\nGeorge, 53, said his nightmare began when he was thrown by his horse. Dazed and bleeding, he climbed back into the saddle and gave the animal its head, expecting it to take him home.
\nBut later, in the pre-dawn darkness, he realised it had taken him more than a kilometre (about a mile) into the heart of a crocodile swamp. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Make sure you read the rest because it’s pretty funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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