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17-06-08, 03:28 PM
Up against the Komodo dragons & Jeremy Clarksin - Blog
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So here I am face to face with a Komodo Dragon on Rinca Island in Indonesia where three unfortunate Brits along with a Swede and a Frenchman were washed up after their dive boat went off without them.
But no need to worry. The park rangers gave me this white stick when I arrived on the island and said just catch them by the neck if they approach.
Well I guess the neck on this one seems a bit small for my stick, but fear not, these guys only eat carrion according to our very own Jeremy Clarkson writing in the Sunday Times.
There’s a blessing.
What he forgot to say is that the carrion they eat is normally only carrion because they’ve bloody well killed it in the first place. Water buffalo, deer and even humans can die a slow lingering death from the bacteria in the saliva of these foul mouth monsters. And I’m sure deer run run faster than I can.
Komodos, when enthusiastic, can run at 20 m.p.h. I think I can do that but not for the full hour.
Here’s what to do if you get bitten by a Komodo on Rinca Island. Get on a boat quick. Its a two and a half hour journey to Labuan Bajo on Flores home of Indonesia’s Hobbit people. Wait for a plane and hope its not one of those days they dont fly, or at least if they do fly, hope you can bump someone from the flight. This will be difficult because by now you’ll be sweating, your face will be contorted, and you’ll be looking like a potential al Queda hijacker and your attempts to say ‘I’ve been bitten by a Komodo’ may be misinterpreted. If you succeed, get yourself to a hospital in Bali a one and a half hour trip over the Indonesian archipelago..
The only cure for a Komodo bite is a Fokker.
Jeremy’s column in the Sunday Times headed ‘Swim with sharks - Its easy money’ was a frivilous knocking piece on the story of two sets of divers who were left recently in ‘Open Water’ by their dive boats. (see this website (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article4136783.ece))
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So here I am face to face with a Komodo Dragon on Rinca Island in Indonesia where three unfortunate Brits along with a Swede and a Frenchman were washed up after their dive boat went off without them.
But no need to worry. The park rangers gave me this white stick when I arrived on the island and said just catch them by the neck if they approach.
Well I guess the neck on this one seems a bit small for my stick, but fear not, these guys only eat carrion according to our very own Jeremy Clarkson writing in the Sunday Times.
There’s a blessing.
What he forgot to say is that the carrion they eat is normally only carrion because they’ve bloody well killed it in the first place. Water buffalo, deer and even humans can die a slow lingering death from the bacteria in the saliva of these foul mouth monsters. And I’m sure deer run run faster than I can.
Komodos, when enthusiastic, can run at 20 m.p.h. I think I can do that but not for the full hour.
Here’s what to do if you get bitten by a Komodo on Rinca Island. Get on a boat quick. Its a two and a half hour journey to Labuan Bajo on Flores home of Indonesia’s Hobbit people. Wait for a plane and hope its not one of those days they dont fly, or at least if they do fly, hope you can bump someone from the flight. This will be difficult because by now you’ll be sweating, your face will be contorted, and you’ll be looking like a potential al Queda hijacker and your attempts to say ‘I’ve been bitten by a Komodo’ may be misinterpreted. If you succeed, get yourself to a hospital in Bali a one and a half hour trip over the Indonesian archipelago..
The only cure for a Komodo bite is a Fokker.
Jeremy’s column in the Sunday Times headed ‘Swim with sharks - Its easy money’ was a frivilous knocking piece on the story of two sets of divers who were left recently in ‘Open Water’ by their dive boats. (see this website (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article4136783.ece))
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