Bombs and Crocodiles
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I certainly don’t mean to make light of recent tragedies in the world, but this story is just bizarre. Talk about tragedy.
Crocodile victim survived Bali blast
Sydney Morning HeraldGerman tourist Isabel von Jordan narrowly escaped the Bali bomb blast and fled to Australia only to be killed by a crocodile.
The 24-year-old’s younger sister, Valerie, had told how they were “very, very lucky” to leave the Sari Club an hour before the bomb exploded.
The sisters flew from Bali to the Northern Territory to visit friends wounded in the terrorist attack who had been evacuated to the Royal Darwin Hospital.
From Darwin, they travelled to Kakadu National Park to forget the horror they had escaped, having danced at the Sari Club just before it was destroyed, Germany’s Merkur newspaper reported.
But 10 days after the bombing, on Tuesday night this week, Isabel von Jordan was taken by a four-metre saltwater crocodile in Sandy Creek Billabong.
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2002.10.26 (Sat) • 17:10
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Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2002.10.27, 01:21
I couldn’t help but laugh, too (I wonder why that is). Then, I felt guilty about laughing, but the guilt actually enhanced the merriment. Doing something naughty.
Anyway, it’s enough to make one believe in bad kharma or vengeful gods.
Posted by Ricardo 2002.10.27, 03:22
This is just too wierd… Amazing how life can just suck.
I guess the croc was happy :P
Posted by Peter Marquis-Kyle 2002.10.27, 10:02
No Ricardo, I don’t think the croc was happy for long — it was chased and harpooned by park rangers.
Posted by jh 2002.10.27, 11:53
M — It does trigger those kind of thoughts, doesn’t it, although I’m sure that some statistician could patiently explain why there’s nothing terribly freaky about it at all. We’re blessed and cursed with a join-the-dots perception, looking for patterns in everything.
Posted by Helen 2002.11.06, 10:48
sad sad sad. She was my brother’s friend. I don’t see a lot of meaning. If anything I think escaping the Sari club and all the crap in Bali possibly made her a little reckless. I don’t know. Just speculation on my part. Wouldn’t you feel like embracing the wonders of life if you had escaped death? And apparently the billabong looked pretty under the moonlight so it looked like a nice place to go for a swim…. Am still not over this.
Nothing what all of you wrote before is true. She was not reckless or whatever, she was told by her guide that it is safe to swim in this billabong. That´s the truth. Why not trusting a guy who is leading tourist through the NT for the last 15 years. May be because he was drunk, which none of the other knew. Isabel was one of the nicest and most honest girls I ever met.
Posted by jh 2003.03.12, 08:00
F (and Helen) —- I wanted to comment of the strangeness of the occurence, not to make fun of it at all. My sincere condolences on the loss of a friend and apologies for adding to your grief.
Kakadu is famous for its big crocodiles. Swimming in that water hole was a deathtrap and the tourguide should hold the most responsibility for Isabel’s death. Shame on him.
Posted by cernjavski david 2006.11.30, 04:24
HELLO
i WOULD LIKE TO SHOW MY RESPECT TO ISABEL’S PARENTS AND TO HER SISTER WHO EXPIERIENCED ISABEL’S TRAGICAL DEATH.
( PERSONAL RESPECT TO ISABEL )
ISABEL,
ICH HOFFE DASS DER LIEBER GOD ZUSAMMEN MIT DICH IST ,UND DASS ES DICH GUT GEHT WO DU JETZT BIST.
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