Reason 387 to HomeSchool: Your 4th Grade Daughter Won’t Have Head Bitten Off by a Crocodile

A ten year old girl in the Philippines has to take a canoe every day to school through crocodile infested waters because some genius thought it would be okay to build a floating school on a lake.  On her way to school the other day, a crocodile as big as a bus capsized her canoe and ripped her head off.  Gadzooks!

From the DailyMail here by way of RightRant:

A 10-year-old girl was decapitated by a crocodile in a Philippine lake after the creature knocked over her canoe.

The girl and a classmate had been on their way to their floating school on Agusan del Sur province’s Mihaba Lake on Saturday, when the 23ft (7m) crocodile bumped the boat, causing it to capsize.

Rescuers found the girl’s headless body floating on the lake yesterday, decapitated by a crocodile. Scarce fish supplies had caused the creature to become agressive.

The classmate was rescued by a man escorting the pair in another boat, said Roel Hipulan, head of the private group that runs the school in remote Bunawan town.  ‘It’s a monster crocodile,’ Hipulan said, adding that he had seen the creature.  He said salt water crocodiles, some bigger than a bus, are known to inhabit the lake.

The crocodile attack has prompted the temporary closure of the school and the evacuation of about 100 residents of houses on stilts on the lake, Hipulan added.

A 23 foot croc?  That’s more than two stories tall!  The Washington Redskins had problems moving the football this past season 23 feet.  And I have heard of school closings because of snow, but this is the first time I’ve heard of school being cancelled because of a “Croc Day.”