Goose hunter fought off crocodile with eye-poke before self-medicating with beer

A man in Australia's Northern Territory who was attacked by a crocodile on at about 7.20pm on Friday managed to escape after he wrestled and poked the beast in the eyes “like a true Territorian”. He then decided to have first aid “in the form of Carlton Dry.”

Duty Superintendent Louise Jorgensen said the 20-year-old man had been hunting geese in wetlands near Wudaduk Outstation, about 20km from the remote community of Peppimenarti. The man was attacked by a crocodile after wading into the water to recover a goose he had shot.



The crocodile is estimated to be about 2m in length. “The crocodile had launched at him, latched onto his right arm and tried to pull him underwater, Superintendent Jorgensen said. “Like a true Territorian he wrestled the crocodile and was able to shake it off finally by poking its eyes.”

After the man returned to shore, he was administered first aid and conveyed to Wudaduk Outstation by quadbike where further first aid “in the form of Carlton Dry was administered”. “When Police and clinic staff arrived he was conveyed in a mildly intoxicated state to the clinic where his wounds were cleaned,” she said. The man was going to be conveyed to Royal Darwin Hospital by Care Flight for numerous puncture wounds, tears and claw marks to his arm and back but opted to drive instead.