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Four months ago, Demeteriya Nabire was killed by a crocodile when she went to the lake near her home to fetch water. The animal later came back to the area but found Nabire's husband waiting, ready to take revenge.
Demeteriya Nabire was at the water's edge with a group of women from her village - they were gathering water from Uganda's Lake Kyoga when the crocodile grabbed her. It dragged her away and she was never seen again.
Her husband, Mubarak Batambuze, was devastated - Nabire was pregnant when she died, and he had lost not only his wife but an unborn child as well. He felt powerless. But then last month he heard the crocodile had returned.
"Somebody called me and said, 'Mubarak, I have news for you - the crocodile that took your wife is here - we are looking at it now.'"
The 50-year-old fisherman made his way to the lake with some friends. "He was a very big monster, and we tried fighting him with stones and sticks. But there was nothing we could do," he says.
So Batambuze went to visit the local blacksmith.
"I explained to him that I was fighting a beast that had snatched and killed my wife and unborn baby. I really wanted my revenge, and asked the blacksmith to make me a spear that could kill the crocodile dead.
"The Blacksmith asked me for £3.20 ($5) and made the spear for me," he says. It was a significant amount of money for Batambuze, but he was determined to kill the animal that had snatched his future.
"The crocodile ate my wife entirely. Nothing was ever seen of her again - no clothes, no part of her body that I could identify. I just didn't know what to do - a mother and her unborn child. It was the end of my world. I was completely lost."
Armed with his new spear - specially designed with a barb on one side - the widower went on the attack.
When he got to the water the crocodile was still there, but Batambuze's friends took fright.
"Please don't attack this beast," they pleaded, "it's so huge it may eat you. The spear is not enough - it won't finish the job."
But Batambuze insisted they stay. "I failed killing it the first time around," he told them, "I'm not bothered if I die killing this beast. I'm going to take it on with this spear, and I will make sure that it dies."
A Ugandan Wildlife Authority ranger, Oswald Tumanya, says the crocodile was more than four metres long and weighed about 600kg.
"I had so much fear in me but what helped me to succeed was the spear," says Batambuze.
He tied a rope to the end of the weapon so that once the tip was embedded in the crocodile, he could pull it out at an angle and the barb would cut into more of the animal's flesh.
"I put the spear into the crocodile's side, and while my friends were helping to throw stones at the beast's back, it tried getting its mouth up to attack me again.
"It turned violent, and then there was so much fear in the place. But I was so determined, and I wasn't afraid of dying. I just wanted it dead, so I put the spear in its side and I pulled the rope. That got the crocodile into trouble."
It took an hour and a half for Batambuze and his friends, fighting and retreating, exchanging attacks with the enraged animal, before the crocodile was finally dead.
Exhausted, they made their way back to their village. "There was so much shock. What really surprised everybody was how big the beast was. It wasn't an ordinary crocodile. It was so big. And people called me and my friends heroes," he says.
The dead animal was taken to Makarere University in Kampala, where it was examined by a vet, Wilfred Emneku.
He says a tibia bone was found inside the crocodile's stomach, but while he believes it's human he can't be sure.
A crocodile expert at Charles Darwin University in Australia, Adam Britton, says he would be very surprised if any remains inside the animal's stomach were those of Demeteriya Nabire.
"After 12 weeks... under normal conditions, it would be highly improbable for bones from the same meal to remain in the stomach," he says.
So while Batambuze's celebrity status endures in his village, it is unlikely that he will ever have a grave to mourn at.
"Within myself I'm a very depressed man because I lost a wife and an unborn child," he explains.
"But the locals keep on saying, 'Thank you for killing the beast, that's where we fetch water and we're sure it would have taken somebody else. Thank you so much, you did a great job.'"
"So I'm a local hero - people keep on thanking me."
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21st Century, and we still have Dragonslayers. As unpleasant as this whole business is, if this chap has at least a modicum of solace now after the loss of his family, then that's good.
Grandpa would have used strong rope and a .22 to the nape. That how Frazzled's cared for the environment back in the day.
Yea for him. The best vengeance is..vengeance.
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What surprises me is that crocodiles seem to be relatively common there, yet they had nothing to fight it with.
It is no different to a big bear hanging around a European village a few centuries ago. As far as we get told, people would have grouped up and done what the husband did.
Good for him that he took it on, and won.
What I then realised was that they were going to the river to get water. Obviously, people still do that.
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Skinnereal wrote: What surprises me is that crocodiles seem to be relatively common there, yet they had nothing to fight it with.
It is no different to a big bear hanging around a European village a few centuries ago. As far as we get told, people would have grouped up and done what the husband did.
Good for him that he took it on, and won.
What I then realised was that they were going to the river to get water. Obviously, people still do that.
What should surprise you even more is that crocodiles taste great. Get rid of predator predating on the family and your own livestock, and add a nice plate to the dinner table.
Its very doable, all the way back to ancient Egyptians.
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I feel like this should be made into a movie. Like a not awful Jaws:the revenge.
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Coruscanta a'den mhi, vode an.
Bal kote,Darasuum kote,
Jorso'ran kando a tome.
Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad vode an.
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Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a.
Aruetyc talyc runi'la trattok'a.
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Hanskrampf wrote: While I understand the man wanted revenge, I'm sad that a crocodile that big had to die.
It was just an animal. It killed people and would have continued to do so if it had not been killed. It is great this monster was destroyed, nothing sad about it.
Da krimson barun wrote: I feel like this should be made into a movie. Like a not awful Jaws:the revenge.
The last time they made a movie about a real life man-eating crocodile, it was a terrible, terrible thing.
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Skinnereal wrote: What surprises me is that crocodiles seem to be relatively common there, yet they had nothing to fight it with.
It is no different to a big bear hanging around a European village a few centuries ago. As far as we get told, people would have grouped up and done what the husband did.
Nah, bears are not nearly as dangerous as crocodiles, they usually avoid humans and do not attack. People almost never get killed by bears.On the rare times they go into a village or city it is quite easy to scare them off or simply ignore them. And when they do get threatening, you can always climb a tree.
Da krimson barun wrote: I feel like this should be made into a movie. Like a not awful Jaws:the revenge.
The last time they made a movie about a real life man-eating crocodile, it was a terrible, terrible thing.
tell me more.I am interested.Is it so bad its good or just bad?
Kote!
Kandosii sa ka'rte, vode an.
Coruscanta a'den mhi, vode an.
Bal kote,Darasuum kote,
Jorso'ran kando a tome.
Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad vode an.
Bal...
Motir ca'tra nau tracinya.
Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a.
Aruetyc talyc runi'la trattok'a.
Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad, vode an!
Moby Dick people! He even has what looks like a harpoon ffs!
If $5 was a significant amount for our spearman, I'm just guessing he doesn't have a lot of flexibility in his living arrangements.
Does the same go for people who live in areas with venomous snakes, or those fools who have a bee allergy, and the gall to live where bees are known to roam?
Nature has its vicious monsters- when they threaten you and yours, it is incumbent upon us to slay them. When they happen to be delicious, it is incredibly entertaining to eat them. Creating effigies from the inedible parts of the carcass to scare off their relatives is also encouraged, although not terribly effective.
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Hanskrampf wrote: While I understand the man wanted revenge, I'm sad that a crocodile that big had to die.
It was just an animal. It killed people and would have continued to do so if it had not been killed. It is great this monster was destroyed, nothing sad about it.
I disagree with I_C here... A crocodile isn't a monster, just as a Shark isn't a monster. They don't have the higher thinking capacities of humans.... Their brains work on basically 3 things: hungry, not hungry, horny. That's it. End of story.
That said, I'm not saddened by this croc being killed, because it obviously showed itself to be a "man eater" and presented a great threat to that community.
Naysayers: I love animals and nature, but this guy was not slaughtering droves of wildlife. He protected his village from something that was threatening them. His underprivileged third-world village is not the same as a resort community by the Everglades. It's not like people are moving there and saying "damn the dangerous wildlife- we wanna swim on this nice beach!"
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Really people? You're sad for the crocodile? Its not like they're on the brink of extinction or anything.
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A crocodile ate a man's wife and their unborn child and there seriously are people being sorry for the ANIMAL? Holy cow. Do we have a Bingo card for this? Does Victim Blaming count?
Skinnereal wrote: What surprises me is that crocodiles seem to be relatively common there, yet they had nothing to fight it with.
It is no different to a big bear hanging around a European village a few centuries ago. As far as we get told, people would have grouped up and done what the husband did.
Nah, bears are not nearly as dangerous as crocodiles, they usually avoid humans and do not attack. People almost never get killed by bears.On the rare times they go into a village or city it is quite easy to scare them off or simply ignore them. And when they do get threatening, you can always climb a tree.
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Better make sure that if you ever see someone you love attacked by an animal, you better make sure to tell them they have to lay down and take it, because the animal is in the right.....
I have been a father for one week now, and if anything eats my wife and child, I will do my best to kill it very damn dead. I don't care if it's a goddamn Elder God. I'll choke it with my corpse.
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"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
I have been a father for one week now, and if anything eats my wife and child, I will do my best to kill it very damn dead. I don't care if it's a goddamn Elder God.
Just remember, eat what you kill to gain it's strength
A crocodile ate a man's wife and their unborn child and there seriously are people being sorry for the ANIMAL? Holy cow. Do we have a Bingo card for this? Does Victim Blaming count?
It's an animal, he didn't eat them because he was evil or for the lulz, he ate them because it was his nature and he wanted to feed. Ofc it should be normal one should feel sad for his fate too.
Hell, it's sad for both parties, the poor guy lost his wife and unborn child, the crocodile lost his life because he was, well, being a crocodile.
Still, I'm amazed with his courage. Facing a 4 meter crocodile with nothing but a spear, dayum, now that's courage.
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