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The spirit of Steve Irwin lives on
Fortunately, for every noble, dashingly stupid soul that bites the dust, there’s at least one more to take its place. Behold Dr. Brady Barr, wearing his croc-suit.
The Telegraph has an interesting, if utterly predictable, article up about this peculiar gentlemen.
“If the suit is too small, larger male crocs may see me as an aggressor and attack me. But if too big, I may scare off smaller crocs. So I want to look like an average sized croc - about four metres long.”
Barr then crawled on all fours towards the den, while enduring scorchingly high temperatures of up 60°C, the threat of being rumbled by the crocs and also the danger of attack by a family of neighbouring hippos.
On his lonely, exposed route to the river, Barr’s weird appearance attracted the curiosity of a herd of hippos.
“This may be just too dangerous,” he says as a hippo and her calf take an interest in him - but they turn away.
“That could have been a very hairy situation,” he says. “And that was before I’d even seen a croc.”
Oh, look at that! The man is batshit insane. If you ask me, designing a “croc-suit” should be grounds for having your PhD taken away.
To Dr. Barr I send my most steadfast salutation: “I wish you no hippos, and crocodiles of the number and dimensions you specify.”
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