This Is About Flood Waters Free Crocodiles in Thailand

　　
　　Apichart Weerawong/Associated PressA crocodile caught in a flooded residential area in the Bangbuatong district of Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok on Sunday.
First it was Bengal tigers in Ohio. Now it’s crocodiles in Bangkok that have broken loose and are menacing the local population.
The authorities have warned that crocodiles are swimming through rising flood waters around the outskirts of the heavily populated capital of Thailand, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. Estimates of the number vary, with the Australian report saying “thousands.” At least 100 broke free last week in Ayutthaya province, north of the capital, according to reports.
The government has been keeping a wary eye on the country’s crocodiles since flood waters began to rise early this month. Thailand is among the world’s main exporters of crocodile products, farming roughly 200,000 at 30 farms wiht 900 small breeding operations, my colleague Seth Mydans reports.
Authorities have offered cash rewards of 1,000 baht — about $32 —for each crocodile caught alive, according to CNN.
The reward appeared to be enough to prompt men to brave the sharp teeth of the livestock, using rope to secure the crocodiles and haul them back from their suburban hideouts.
Chai Patacamin, a journalist at Thailand’s Daily News, posted a dramatic picture of a crocodile capture in a flooded street on Sunday in what appeared to be the outskirts of Bangkok. The absence of any rope indicated that the animal was either dead or extremely docile.

　　Chai Patacamin, via yfrogMen hauled a crocodile across a flooded street in Thailand on Sunday. It was unclear if the animal was still alive; most that are captured living must be tied up.
Photographs and video posted online in recent days showed the usual method of securing the potentially dangerous animal, tying the mouth and all four legs with a long piece of rope. Officials and villagers in the Bangbuatong district caught eight crocodiles over the weekend on a flooded road north of the capital and shot two dead, according to the Bangkok Post, an English-language daily.
So far there have been no reports of the newly freed crocodiles injuring any people.
Apichart Weerawong/Associated PressA crocodile in a boat north of the capital on Sunday.
The video below, uploaded to YouTube over the weekend, appeared to show teams of men hunting for crocodiles in small boats. Though similar boats have appeared in photographs of the October flooding and crocodile expeditions, the location and exact timing of the crocodile hunt could not be firmly established: