Try living with the bastards. Watch them trying the climb your bsck steps to get was the poor silly house pet.
Shoot the bastards into submission.

If the greenies like the things so much, we should relocate every problem crock trapped, & those in crock farms to Sydney Harbour & Port Phillip Bay.

In a world where survival of the species is so valued, the ultimate stupidity must be protecting the predators of your own specie. It is the greenies pushing it, which proves the point doesn't it?

Of course, the sight & smell of the only greenies I have seen to venture up north probably protects them from all predators. The rest of them seem to live in high rise apartments in inner cities, & I doubt the crocs or sharks will ever manage to work the elevators to get at them, more's the pity.

I feel so sorry for the family.

It would be horrendous to lose a family member in this
manner especially when people are consistently told
and should be aware of the danger of crocodiles in
the area.

Cindy Waldron's father stated that his daughter did not
like swimming or going into the water. The fact that she
was wading waist deep with her friend at night indicated
to him that she must have lost her fears due to having
had a tad too much to drink prior to this tragedy.

I'm not sure how to improve this situation from happening
again or if culling crocodiles would really prevent people
from doing silly things and taking these kind of risks. However,
There should be more signs warning tourists of the dangers
of going into the water in crocodile infested areas. That you
do so at your own peril.

We either 'shoot them into extinction' or we blame those who've been sadly taken, as yet another example of misadventure ?

The first option - I wonder just how many adventurous, inexperienced people (many city dwellers) with all manner of (licensed) F/A's would invade the top end with the steely eyed look of the big white hunter searching for a mythical '30 footer' big salty ?

While quietly observing these shooters, hidden deeply in the mangroves at the edge of some narrow muddy estuary, are the anti-gun lobby. Dedicated environmentalist armed with their anti-duck hunting noise makers, set to protect this hapless reptilian creature, encouraging them somehow to go deep, to save themselves ? Do they realize a big 'Salty' can't distinguish between the hunter and their guardians ?

Having mentioned these conservationists brings to mind this little heard maxim:-

'...hunting is the only sport where your competition doesn't know they're playing...'?

Put these two antagonists together; plus a bunch of hi-power centrefire F/A's; and add a mass of perpetually hungry large salt water crocodiles; The short duck shooting season in Victoria, will be nothing compared with a croc. cull at the top end !

I'd hate to be 'the law' trying to interdict, and regulate a 'croc shooting cull' at the top end, should it ever come to pass ?

The crocks are needed to keep the waterways clear of surface growing water weeds; when croc numbers fell the weeds choked the waterways; on the other hand we don't need croc numbers to get higher than necessary, commercial hunting depleted their numbers in the past and, regulated, could keep the croc population down again as well as providing employment.

The thought of Laurie Levy wading into a river to save a croc is appealing however, perhaps accompanied by David Sandalplank.

Of course that's the blokes name who annually tries hard to disrupt the Victorian Duck hunting season, Laurie LEVY ? Somehow I couldn't imagine Mr LEVY wading through the mangroves in the small muddy estuaries of the top end attempting to 'shoo' the big Salt Water Crocodiles away. One misstep and he'd end up being their afternoon tea I should imagine.