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Heartstopping moment huge crocodile leaps up at terrified Aussie presenter as she poses for pic with it
THIS is the terrifying moment a huge crocodile leapt up at an Aussie presenter as she posed for pictures with it.
Zarisha Bradley, a reporter for , got the fright of her life today when she was filming a segment and crouched down near the seemingly idle reptile.
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The journalist described the moment the croc, named Bonecruncher, nearly grabbed her with his huge jaws.
She said: "This beast known as 'Bonecruncher' had a go at having me for dinner and I don't think I've moved quicker in my life.
"Despite the fright, Bonecruncher is the most special croc I've met in my Northern Territory adventures and I won't hold a grudge."
Zarisha also took to to talk about her ordeal, writing: “Can confirm it’s true what they say about giving a smile to a crocodile.
“It didn’t smile back.”
She added the clip would be included in her next broadcast.
“Bet that got the adrenaline pumping,” one commenter wrote, while another said it could’ve been a “Darwin lovebite”.
Zarisha had a lucky escape after a 24-year-old man needed to have his fingers reattached last month after he was attacked by a crocodile while fishing at Mandorah, across the harbour from Darwin, Australia.
A 23-year-old man in Arnhem Land also escaped serious injury in late April, after he was grabbed by a crocodile while fishing on the Glyde River, reported.
NT Police Watch Commander Siiri Tennosaar said the man was hunting in waist-deep water when the crocodile attacked him.
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“He was grabbed from behind by a 1.8 metre (crocodile) and the man held onto some mangroves and the crocodile for some reason released him and swam away,” she said.
“So other than suffering some pretty deep lacerations to his upper thigh, he managed to get away with no life-threatening injuries.”
Commander Tennosaar recommended the man “go straight to get a lotto ticket”.
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