I know. It's a lonely world for a crocodile in a Russian nuclear research town. It may even drive you to try and take your own life by defenestration.
Tue Aug 7, 3:46
PM MOSCOW (AFP) - Residents in the Russian nuclear research town of Sarov got a jaw-dropping surprise on Tuesday when a crocodile fell from the twelfth-storey apartment of its owner, the emergency situations ministry said.
The one-metre (3.3-feet) caiman crocodile landed on a pavement after leaning too far out of the window of the apartment where it had lived for the last 15 years, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted an official with the local branch of the ministry as saying.
Frightened passers-by called the emergency services and rescuers managed to lasso the stunned animal and take it to a shelter for stray pets.
It was soon returned to its owner, unharmed apart from damage to one of its teeth, the official said.
Located in Nizhny Novgorod province east of Moscow, Sarov was the birthplace of the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapons and today is home to the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre.
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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 8/08/2007 11:26:00 AM
Word for the day -- I actually looked up defenestration. Now to try to use it in a sentence later today, casually inserted into conversation. Glad the croc is "alright," and likely quite stunned him/herself. Not so good of results for a human I knew who had this happen.
ReplyDeleteMy cat did the same thing when I lived on the tenth floor of a tower block, poor little kitty was found wearing it's paws as earings!
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