Man Killed By Dragons!

ratinakeg · 24-03-2009 9:46pm #1

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Two Komodo dragons mauled a fruit-picker to death in eastern Indonesia, police and witnesses said Tuesday, the latest in a string of attacks on humans by the world's largest lizard species.

Police Sgt. Kosmas Jalang said 31-year-old Muhamad Anwar was attacked on Komodo, one of four islands where the giant reptile is found in the wild, minutes after he fell out of a sugar-apple tree on Monday.

He was bleeding badly from bites to his hands, body, legs and neck after two lizards, waiting below, attacked him, according to a neighbour, Theresia Tawa.

He died at a clinic on the neighboring island of Flores soon after.

OMG!:eek:

callaway92 · 24-03-2009 9:47pm

lawlz

DarkJager · 24-03-2009 9:49pm

How about them apples?

Schism · 24-03-2009 9:50pm

He shouldn't have tried to steal their sugar-apples

K4t · 24-03-2009 9:51pm

- a komodo dragon

Holy f**k tbh.

Kernel · 24-03-2009 9:55pm

Lads, fetch me by platemail and broadsword +1.

Snowie · 24-03-2009 10:04pm

they've been known to attack small children. quite comon i do beleave..

mud · 24-03-2009 10:07pm

their drool is caustic!

almost impossible for a komodo dragon bite to heal as it's so corrosive the wound never closes :eek:

Creature · 24-03-2009 10:09pm

Those things are ****in awesome. Saw them in a zoo before, quite enormous too.

orestes · 24-03-2009 10:10pm

I can't wait for Lady Ramkin to try and explain this one

Podge2k7 · 24-03-2009 10:13pm

lol

Dartz · 24-03-2009 10:15pm

Dragons Den could do with a retooling methinks....

MizzLolly · 24-03-2009 10:16pm

Beowulf!

Terry · 24-03-2009 10:20pm

orestes wrote: »

I can't wait for Lady Ramkin to try and explain this one

I don't know who that is.

Diabhal Beag · 24-03-2009 10:21pm

..........Magic.......Mushrooms..........BadlySussed...................!

DaBreno · 24-03-2009 10:44pm

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

they've been known to attack small children.

I'll take two.

Wibbs · 24-03-2009 11:00pm

mud wrote: »

their drool is caustic!

almost impossible for a komodo dragon bite to heal as it's so corrosive the wound never closes :eek:

Worse that that, they have a shít load of really really nasty bacteria that will kill you from septicemia in days even if you get away from them and take antibiotics. One bite breaks the skin and game fúckin over. Apparently sceintist types are trying to figure out how they themselves survive as they're immune to these bugs and bites from other dragons. The ones in captivity lose this trick though and can't be put back in the wild as if they're bitten they'll die too. Biggest lizard on earth(that we know of, rumours of bigger in other parts of new guinea), then you look at salt water crocs and have a serious OMFG moment.

http://image24.webshots.com/25/9/28/58/36892858JQbsaN_ph.jpg

Snowie · 24-03-2009 11:10pm

DaBreno wrote: »

I'll take two.

really extra crispy and honey glazed ?

Gummy Panda · 24-03-2009 11:15pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOF4YPdYELg

bad ass!

Terry · 24-03-2009 11:37pm

Wibbs wrote: »

Worse that that, they have a shít load of really really nasty bacteria that will kill you from septicemia in days even if you get away from them and take antibiotics. One bite breaks the skin and game fúckin over. Apparently sceintist types are trying to figure out how they themselves survive as they're immune to these bugs and bites from other dragons. The ones in captivity lose this trick though and can't be put back in the wild as if they're bitten they'll die too. Biggest lizard on earth(that we know of, rumours of bigger in other parts of new guinea), then you look at salt water crocs and have a serious OMFG moment.

http://image24.webshots.com/25/9/28/58/36892858JQbsaN_ph.jpg

And yet they still went to Komodo island.

thebigcheese22 · 24-03-2009 11:43pm

Wibbs wrote: »

Worse that that, they have a shít load of really really nasty bacteria that will kill you from septicemia in days even if you get away from them and take antibiotics. One bite breaks the skin and game fúckin over. Apparently sceintist types are trying to figure out how they themselves survive as they're immune to these bugs and bites from other dragons. The ones in captivity lose this trick though and can't be put back in the wild as if they're bitten they'll die too. Biggest lizard on earth(that we know of, rumours of bigger in other parts of new guinea), then you look at salt water crocs and have a serious OMFG moment.

http://image24.webshots.com/25/9/28/58/36892858JQbsaN_ph.jpg

When I opened this thread, I went from excited to disappointed, but...

Wibbs, you have made me excited about dragons again, thank you