A man converses with and touches a wild crocodile, in Karjan; video goes viral

Vadodara: In a strange video that has gone viral across social media, a mid-age man identified as Pankaj Patel went dangerously close to a wild crocodile and started a one-way verbal conversation with it. The people who were capturing the video from some distance, repeatedly asked Patel to leave the place as it was very risky, but Patel didn’t just listen to them and continued his monologue with a crocodile. The situation became even more dangerous when Patel went further close to a crocodile and even touched it more than once. However a crocodile luckily remained unmoved and unprovoked and didn’t attack the person. The incident is reportedly from Karjan town of central Gujarat. In his monologue , Patel was expressing his deep respect and religious affection for this creature which is believed to be the vehicle of Goddess Narmada. The end of the video clip shows that the crocodile swiftly left the place and went into the water without harming Pankaj Patel. Patel however went closer to it again and tamed its tail, but the crocodile still continued its movement and disappeared in the water body. It is not known, whether this was a daring act by Mr. Patel or whether he was drunk.

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