Boy Fed Zoo Reptiles To Crocodile

[Oscar]

A seven-year-old boy has been filmed going on the rampage at a popular zoo in Australia, killing rare reptiles and feeding live ones to a crocodile.

Footage from the security cameras at Alice Springs Reptile Centre caught the child smiling as he killed a total of 13 animals.

During his 30-minute spree, he was seen hurling the animals over the security fence into the crocodile enclosure.

Zoo officials described the boy's actions as "unbelievable".

They are considering suing the parents as the boy is too young to be prosecuted.

'Difficult to replace'

The attack happened on Wednesday morning after the boy entered the zoo by jumping over the security fence and evading sensor alarms.

Over the next half hour, he bludgeoned some of the animals to death with stones and hurled others over the two fences surrounding the crocodile enclosure.

At one point, he tried scaling the outer enclosure himself to get to "Terry", the 11ft (3.3m) saltwater crocodile.

A turtle, four Western blue-tongued lizards, two bearded dragons, two thorny devil lizards and the zoo's 20-year-old goanna were among those killed.

Zoo director Rex Neindorf said many of the animals were rare or mature and would be difficult to replace.

"The fact a seven-year-old can wreak so much havoc in such a short time, it's unbelievable," he told Reuters news agency.

Mr Neindorf said the boy had "clammed up" when questioned by police.

As children under the age of 10 cannot be held accountable for their actions in the Northern Territory, the zoo would be seeking to take action against the parents.

"We'll be looking at suing the parents, who were supposedly in control of him at the time," he said.

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I think his parents will be getting a hefty bill for not attending their child.

Uhm holy crap, future serial killer???

its one of those "how do we deal with it?" situations, i mean you can't put him in prison, and sueing the parents isn't going to help.

Wow thats pretty messed. What are kids thinking now?

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by Adrenaguy

its one of those "how do we deal with it?" situations, i mean you can't put him in prison, and sueing the parents isn't going to help.

Yes it is. The zoo gets money back then. Bearded dragons are probably the cheapest of what he killed a baby one cost 75-80 dollars per lizard.

[Oscar]

They should have fed coasterkidmwm to the gator

it probably would have been good if the kid did climb that crock fence. hahaha XD

[gouldy]

^ NOW we see the "future serial killer"

Originally posted by gouldy

^ NOW we see the "future serial killer"

hey hey, not saying i would throw him over.
just saying if he happened to get over, yeah, lol XD

i don't care if i got called a future serial killer, it's one kid, and It would be an "accident" anyway...