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.”
I want to see the photograph taken about 60 seconds after this one.
No, you don’t. No one does.
Although I must say, perhaps the man fashions his croc-suits out of the corpses of his vanquished herptile foes. That would definitely be a pretty badass way to make a living, and certainly make me reconsider asking that the man’s PhD be revoked.
Pursuing this thought further (and why not?), I think that if a doctoral candidate fails their dissertation defense, they should be automatically admitted to a redemption round in which they’re offered the opportunity to rend a croc limb from limb.
Victory in the redemption round offers the candidate either two PhDs or the sundry destruction of the judging committee. Yes. Yes, this is a grand idea.
All I can think of is Ace Ventura and the mechanical rhino. Also I am a fan of the gladiatorial scenario you propose.
What are the odds of this kid making it to 40?
http://www.komotv.com/news/entertainment/15742257.html
Steve made it to 44!
I wanted to pull out a quote or two from that article, but they’re all freaking gems. What a wonderful family of freaks. I’m all for an Irwin dynasty aristocracy.