Eye for an eye: Australian cattleman attacked by crocodile bites back and lives
- Colin Deveraux, who is in his 60s, saw fish clustering in a billabong, a pond left behind when the river changes course or floodwaters ebb
- There was a croc lurking in there and ‘the dirty b*****d latched onto my right foot’. Freedom came when the farmer chomped down on its eyelid
An Australian cattle farmer is set to leave hospital nearly a month after he got bitten by a crocodile – and escaped by biting back.
Colin Deveraux, who is in his mid-60s, was walking toward a river in northern Australia to take care of some fencing when he saw fish clustering in a billabong, a pond left behind when the river changes course or floodwaters ebb.
Realising there was something else in the water besides the fish, he abandoned his idea of catching some and turned to leave.
“The water had receded, and it was down to this dirty water in the middle,” Deveraux told Australian broadcaster ABC. “I took two steps and the dirty b*****d latched onto my right foot.”
A fight for his life ensued.
“It was a big grab, and he shook me like a rag doll and took off back into the water, pulling me in,” Deveraux recounted.