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Speaker 1: We saw in the paper a little earlier this week

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Speaker 1: vision and a photograph of this terrible situation where a

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Speaker 1: young crocodile had cable ties around its snout. Now staff

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Speaker 1: from the Spectacular Jumping croc Cruisers they spotted this croc

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Speaker 1: I believe it's known as jim Andy struggling against the

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Speaker 1: restraints which would have caused him to starve to death

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Speaker 1: if not removed. Now joining us on the line is Alex,

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Speaker 1: known as Wookie from the Spectacular Jumping croc Cruisers. Get

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Speaker 1: a Wookie.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing, Katie? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Really well, thank you so much for taking the time

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Speaker 1: to have a chat to me this morning.

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 1: What happened with this small crocodile with the restraints and

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Speaker 1: the cable tie around its snout? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, while we were out on a tour on Monday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: we saw young Jiminy trying to hunt at the river's

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Speaker 2: edge at low tide, trying to catch small fish and

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Speaker 2: prime ones. But yeah, cable ties around his mouth, which

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Speaker 2: not only would have eventually caused Jiminy to staff, but

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Speaker 2: also makes it really easy for other crocodiles to harass

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Speaker 2: and attack him, you know, with his mouth cable tide shut.

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Speaker 2: It's really hard to try and fight back and defend

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Speaker 2: yourself as a little crocodile. So we immediately let parks

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Speaker 2: and Wildlife know, which is what everyone should do if

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Speaker 2: they see a crocodile while they're outfishing that is in

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Speaker 2: some kind of distress, whether it's a similar instance, you know,

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Speaker 2: a crocodile with some kind of restraint on it, or

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Speaker 2: maybe one that looks like it's received a propeller strike injury.

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Speaker 2: Always let parks and Wildlife know first there Interfering with

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Speaker 2: our wildlife is illegal for a reason. It's about safety

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Speaker 2: for people, it's about safety for the animals, and you

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Speaker 2: know they know best how to deal with these situations.

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Speaker 1: What did you think to yourself when you saw Jimmy

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Speaker 1: with his snout cable tied up. I mean I was

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Speaker 1: pretty mortified when I saw the photo, and I think,

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Speaker 1: why would someone do that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I was incredibly angry when I first saw it,

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Speaker 2: and not just because it's a crocodile who we work

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Speaker 2: with and who we have this relationship with. It's it's

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Speaker 2: just it's an evil thing to do. Like Jimminy is

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Speaker 2: a size that there's absolutely no way that he could

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Speaker 2: have accidentally ended up in someone's boat. You know, a

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Speaker 2: little thirty forty centimeter crocodile, it's feasible that it accidentally

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Speaker 2: grabbed onto someone's line and you know, small and light

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Speaker 2: enough for them to you know, get it into the boat.

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Speaker 2: But and then and you know, be able to do

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Speaker 2: something like that, but Jimmy is not small. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's impossible to have There is no part of it

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Speaker 2: that was an accident. It's everything screams malicious at intent,

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Speaker 2: and it's just really really upsetting to see that. Luckily, though,

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Speaker 2: Parks and Wildlife were happy with our plan to safely

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Speaker 2: remove those cable ties and we were able to do that.

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Speaker 2: It was quite quite an exhausting thing for both us

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Speaker 2: and for Jimmy, and really stressful too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, what did you like? How did you have

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Speaker 1: to do it? I mean, I would imagine for you guys,

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Speaker 1: your safety is your number one priority, the safety of

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Speaker 1: the crocodile as well as the number one priority. So

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming it would have been quite an arduous sort

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. And the thing is you're not just thinking

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Speaker 2: about the crocodile you're looking at. There's lots of crocodiles

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Speaker 2: out in our rivers, and when they're very curious animals too,

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Speaker 2: they notice when something strange is happening, when it's something

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Speaker 2: new and interesting, and they are likely to come and investigate. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, you're not just looking at that croc in

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Speaker 2: front of you, You're watching for any others approaching. And

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Speaker 2: when Jimmy was so stressed about this as well, having

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Speaker 2: those cable ties around this snout, it was difficult to

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Speaker 2: convince them to get close. I can't really go into

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Speaker 2: too many specifics about how we were able to get

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Speaker 2: those cable ties off. You know, we don't want to

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Speaker 2: encourage any kind of copycat behavior. We do have lots

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Speaker 2: of training and lots of safety systems in place that

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Speaker 2: we were following to make sure that we kept ourselves,

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Speaker 2: ourselves and Jimmy safe in the process of getting those

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Speaker 1: Me mate, what is your message this morning for whoever

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Speaker 1: thinks that it's appropriate to do something like that to

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Speaker 1: a crocodile.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it doesn't make any sense to me, Katie like,

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Speaker 2: and we have such a strong bond with our environment

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Speaker 2: and the animals that live in it here in the

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Speaker 2: Northern territory. It's it's it's almost unbelievable that people could

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Speaker 2: have that level of disrespect. And you know, we are

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Speaker 2: urging anyone who might have any information, if you've seen anything,

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Speaker 2: or you know anything, please do contact Parks and Wildlife

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Speaker 2: because we know we want to we want to try

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Speaker 2: and get justice for Jiminy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, I agree. If you've got any info that could help,

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Speaker 1: make sure you're get in contact with Parks and Wildlife. Willkie,

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Speaker 1: how are the spectacular jumping croc cruises going today? Made

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Speaker 1: of the crocodiles hungry? Are they? Are they active and

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Speaker 1: jumping around?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely? Twos. This morning been going really well. Obviously

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Speaker 2: we're in the school holidays right now, so plenty of

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Speaker 2: families coming out. It's a good way to help keep

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Speaker 2: the kids entertained and keep their brains engaged too. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're not just looking at crocodiles, we're learning about them.

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Speaker 2: We're learning about the environment and promoting healthy relationships with

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Speaker 2: the environments and our.

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Speaker 1: Wildlife here, which is a great thing to do. Well, Walokie,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time this morning, mate, and good

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Speaker 1: job by you. And was there a few of you

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Speaker 1: guys that ended up helping helping Wookie. I mean, I'd

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Speaker 1: like to give him all the shout out because I

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Speaker 1: just think you've saved him and hopefully he's going to

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Speaker 1: be okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, myself, Shane and Henry, we're we're the

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Speaker 2: ones on the boat getting Jiminy released. So thank you

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Speaker 2: to both of them. You know, it's a big team effort.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all good stuff. Good on you guys, and I'm

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Speaker 1: glad that you were able to, you know, to get

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Speaker 1: to get him free and hopefully he's gonna be all right. Mate,

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Speaker 1: have a lovely day out on the water. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for stepping aside from one of the tours

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Speaker 1: to have a quick chat to me today.

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Speaker 2: Cheer Katie, You too, mate,