Monster Crocodile in New Orleans

Michael Maffei sent me some giant crocodile pictures that have begun doing the rounds. They're accompanied by this caption:

Now this is a Crocodile ! This crocodile was found in New Orleans swimming down the street. 21 FT long, 4,500 lbs, around 80 years old minimum. Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to catch animals. This crocodile was killed by the army last Sunday at 3:00 pm, currently he is in the freezer at the Azur hotel. The contents of it's stomach will be analyzed this Friday at 2:30pm.

The pictures are real enough, but they're weren't taken in New Orleans. These are pictures of the Monster Crocodile of Pointe-Noire (in the Republic of the Congo). They've been circulating for over two years. David Emery notes that the crocodile was really estimated to be 16 feet long and weighed about 1874 lbs. That's still a lot bigger than I'd ever care to encounter.

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Posted on Fri Sep 16, 2005



Comments

BenjiWenji
News flash: Crocodiles do kill humans!!

And, although we may be smarter , wouldnt go as far as to say we are superior than creatures who have been around decades upon decades longer than ourselves, I mean think about all the animals in just the time that crocodiles//alligators have been on the earth that have died completly out, and the ones still to die out before the croc//alligator!! I mean deserves some sorta respect!!! For all you know they may even out live the human species!!
Posted by Georgia  on  Tue Oct 11, 2005  at  03:52 PM
alrighty lemme clear this here stuff up, I spent my whole life in Louisiana, and a family who traps alligators, first off this isn't an alligator it is a crocodile, there isn't any crocs in louisiana, there is a small breed of crocs in florida that are much smaller and shapped differently, I agree this is a really old animal, but its not from louisiana, its not an alligator, and those aren't reall soul brothers from New Orleans.....

--gumbo luvin fool,
geaux tigers!
Posted by Wayne "Coonass" Tabor  on  Tue Oct 11, 2005  at  10:05 PM
Yall are all full of crap, those are New Orleans folks. Louisiana folks are some of the most friendly people around. Make those comments about the color of there skin and makeing remarks that make them out to be like the people on the movie Water Boy is just childish and emature.
and one more thing, May la Bau tau Rou Lay
Posted by Brian  on  Wed Oct 12, 2005  at  07:13 AM
Dont know how many louisiana people you've seen!
But the people in the photo are clearly not !!!
Also theres another picture on another site were the licence plate is clearly visible and its clearly a tag from a foriegn country!! (like say o, The Congo, in Point-Noire) Anyways there are many many many different kinna people in New Orleans , From plaid, overall wearing backwoods people, to thug types, to men in business suits,, to the vodoo kinds, all the way down to you average day american blue colored workers..

Lousiana is a very nice place to visit, Just stay clear of martigra place turns into a made house, i only thought st. patricks day in savannah was crazy... Have great day!!
Posted by Georgia  on  Wed Oct 12, 2005  at  08:14 AM
what was in the stomach of the crocodile
Posted by Laiken  on  Thu Oct 13, 2005  at  08:08 AM
well, yeah, of course crocodiles kill humans. So do spiders. And mosquitoes. Hell, all of these animals might outlast us. But don't go telling me that they're superior to us. I think they're awesome animals, but if humans wanted to wipe out the entire species they sure could (not that it would be a good thing or even an ok thing, just saying it's possible).
Posted by BenjiWenji  on  Thu Oct 13, 2005  at  12:49 PM
I think in a way they are lying because it would be seen from all the planes that fly around I mean if he is that big I would notice something like that if i was in a plane and if nobody seen that then its no telling what else might be on this earth.
Posted by Tate  on  Thu Oct 13, 2005  at  11:29 PM
its just like gas prices it isn't doing nothin but making poor people poorer and making more crimes in areas because theres a lot of people in the united states that are having money problems and there really not making it now because they can't pay for gas because they got to pay there bills and they don't make it to work because they have no money for gas so they get fired because they had no ride to work so the goverment it just getting all the money he don't really know what hes doing to us because hes got it made becasue hes getting our money and i think i am speaking for everybody.
Posted by Tate  on  Fri Oct 14, 2005  at  12:02 AM
No, Tate, if you were speaking for everybody, you'd be coherent.
Posted by Boo  on  Fri Oct 14, 2005  at  03:14 AM
Look at the picture closely and bear in mind that crocs have long slender snouts and and gators have short stubby snouts. view other pictures on the web also.
Posted by MacDyver  on  Fri Oct 14, 2005  at  04:36 AM
im into all this giant reptile things i really like aliigators and crocs
Posted by Jose  on  Fri Oct 14, 2005  at  10:29 AM
Uh, Tate, just out of curiosity, what the f*ck are you talking about? You make no sense at all. How is a Giant Crocodile hoax in any way like rising gas prices? If you could just point out like one similarity, or even something that isn't a similarity but maybe a correlation of some kind, everyone would be much obliged. Thank you.
Posted by BenjiWenji  on  Fri Oct 14, 2005  at  02:43 PM
I used to live in Louisiana and for some one to make this mistake on a reptile that does not even habitat this southern region is plain stupid. What A Hoax!!! It's not even an Alligator you Dumb A@*%s!!! ITS A FRIGGEN CROC!!! What did school teach you? Especially those who live in Louisiana for buying this BS!
Posted by Keith Kiser  on  Mon Oct 17, 2005  at  11:51 AM
Who ever was talking about the plates, there are no plates on this vehicle. If you are referring to the "80" and "90" in the white circles....that's not a license plate. Otherwise, I don't see what anyone is talking about on that.
As far as "not standing next to the croc if it were truly real, IT'S DEAD! If you look in the supposed article, it says that it's being kept in the freezer and they will be examining the stomache for it's contents. Whether this is a hoax or not, it still may be a real croc anyway, just not in the right area. Also, you have to keep in mind the possibility that it could be real. There was a hurricane and things including live things could have been swept out of its origin. Secondly, even if the trucks plates were indeed not NOLA or American doesn't mean anything, people from many places came to help out there. who's to say no one from S.A. came up here, who knows what their plates look like. You just never know, but why rule out anything?!?!?!
Posted by Ren  on  Mon Oct 17, 2005  at  04:19 PM
you know its sad that so many unexplainable things are going on in the world today.you dont know what to believe.things that are happening now were so far fetched even 15 years ago.i knew the crocodile was real so i just believed the story for a minute too.my first thought was how many fisherman has this thing munched on?then i went to my t.v. and turned on fox news. nothing about a crocodile,so i knew it was bogus then.whoever did this should find a better way to entertain themselves than turning a tragic situation into humor.
Posted by laura williams  on  Mon Oct 17, 2005  at  10:43 PM
dude. you cannot "rehabilitate" a prehistoric eating machine with a brain the size of a pea. what are you gonna do? read him his Miranda Rights and send him to therapy?

that's a croc (literally). its big, its dumb, it eats and it sleeps. and it tends to be territorial and return to its territory even after you move it someplace else. when it threatens people, you kill it.
Posted by .....  on  Thu Oct 20, 2005  at  11:11 PM
"This crocodile was killed by the army last Sunday at 3:00 pm, currently he is in the freezer at the Azur hotel. The contents of it's stomach will be analyzed."

If the Army killed it why aren't there any Military around? and I have been trying my best to find this motel and the only one's I find are in the Congo and France.
Posted by Mike  on  Fri Oct 28, 2005  at  01:58 PM
Living in croc country all my life (Northern Territory and North Western Australia). I wondered how an Australian croc ended up so far away from home.They travel around but not that far.It supprised me because one that big would have already set themselves up within a river system as the dominant male and being that big would have no rivals or natural preditors. I did see one that big the other day on the fitzroy river so I did'nt go fishing.
Posted by gordon  on  Tue Nov 08, 2005  at  06:05 AM
Figures. From the dress of the people in the photo, you know it's not in New Orleans, and seems military wouldn't miss a chance for credit, in which they'd SURELY be in the photo.

Meanwhile, I'll be drinking Absinthe (http://absinthe.protoprotoss.net) so I can illusion all this stuff attacking me and I have reason to run.... or stay intoxicated.
Posted by Drunken_Bastard  on  Wed Nov 09, 2005  at  08:55 PM
Actually, there are crocs in North America, and they are small saltwater crocs, often living around mangroves in the salt. I have seen 4 or 5 on fishing trips in Mexico, and trust me, these are no gators.
Posted by bill  on  Fri Nov 18, 2005  at  08:25 AM
first of all no person in their right mind that lived in new orleans would even try to catch an alligator let alone a crocodile. second as someone pointed out it is not in new orlenas because of the licsence plate. third there is no hotel named azur in new orleans. and lastly who would beleive by even looking at the picture that the croc weighed 4,500 pounds because elephants weigh over two tons and that thing comes no where close.
Posted by Redd from tha N.O  on  Fri Jul 21, 2006  at  10:04 PM
What is the difference between an alligator and a crocodile. An alligator is a specific species (or two if you count the chinese alligator) and a crocodile is any memeber of a whole genus. An alligator is a crocodile.
Posted by john david  on  Fri Aug 25, 2006  at  10:37 AM
Now we have lost the one man who could have wrestled even that thing to the ground
Posted by Gethsememene Rose  on  Mon Sep 04, 2006  at  09:22 PM
THAT A BIG CROC LOOKS LIKE A 33FTEER :gulp:
Posted by JACOB  on  Sat Oct 20, 2007  at  04:29 PM
''YO'' CROCS RULE :coolhmm:
Posted by JACOB  on  Sat Oct 20, 2007  at  04:32 PM
is that the fatest croc.
saltwater crocs are the best. :long: :blank:
Posted by JACOB  on  Thu Oct 25, 2007  at  04:33 PM
Well, I guess that Redd got a good point about the weight, But the middleweight of an elephant is around 3-5 tons, but I know what you mean, althought this is a huge croc they got there there's simply no possebility for it to weigh that much. And the origin of this specimen? Well i guess it heritage is not America, more likely Africa or Australia, I think the that this is a Nile Crocodile but I'm not to sure about it.
Posted by Oliver  on  Mon Dec 03, 2007  at  02:43 AM
Now I may not be some sort of crocodile expert but I am smart enough to know THERE ARE NO CROCODILES IN LOUISIANA only alligators and I know this because I have grown up in New Orleans all my life and I have never heard of a crocodile in Louisiana.Second of all there is no Azur hotel in Louisiana.Sure,a crocodile could get flushed down the toilet but to hide out for eighty years undetected ? Not likely, besides since it would be so big it would require a major food source in which case fishermen would notice a BIG dent in the fish population and a lot of gators would be going hungry or adding to its food source so a lot would be disappearing so let me put it loud and clear, THIS IS A HOAX.
Posted by hellion  on  Mon Mar 31, 2008  at  10:18 PM
Crocidiles are not native to north america and back when they brought out that movie LAKE PLACID i mean if a croc ever et a liberal it would get sick
Posted by Birdzilla  on  Mon Oct 13, 2008  at  02:11 PM
any more pics?
Posted by AMY32  on  Sat Jan 10, 2009  at  12:51 PM
n/a
Posted by Mr. Kristen Shawn Catlin  on  Thu Nov 05, 2009  at  03:52 PM
everyone here is idiots those are people from louisiana they probly killed the aligator and the live in new orleans cause they r niggers
Posted by eddie  on  Thu Jul 01, 2010  at  10:30 AM
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