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[Buck_99]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/australia.crocodile/index.html

(CNN) -- A man who rescued a co-worker from the jaws of a crocodile in northern Australia also accidentally shot him in the process, police said.

A mature saltwater crocodile in the the murky waters of the Adelaide River, near Darwin in the Northern Territory.

The two men were collecting crocodile eggs by a river bank in Australia's Northern Territory Tuesday when a crocodile grabbed Jason Grant by the lower right arm, a spokeswoman for the area police told CNN.

The second man, Zac Fitzgerald, shot the crocodile, causing it to let go of Grant's arm. But a second shot that Fitzgerald fired struck Grant in the upper right arm, said Northern Territory police spokeswoman Katie Fowden.

Grant, who is in his late 20s, was flown to a hospital for treatment of both the bullet and the crocodile wounds. His injuries were not life-threatening, Fowden said.

The two men are workers at a crocodile farm in Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory. They were collecting the eggs legally, police said.

[NickMyers03]

[deborahbroadus]

[Buck_99]

Panic sounds about right. Or maybe it looked like the croc was about to lunge or otherwise continue the fight. Perhaps the guy still had his finger on the trigger and fired by accident. Plus Hollywood has trained us all to believe that the monster is never dead after just one shot.