Animals: Ruse

In Mexico, a 14-year-old boy went swimming in the San Diego River. Up surged a huge crocodile and devoured him. Angry peons gathered on the river's brink, laid a dynamite charge, lured the reptile inshore with a pig, touched off the dynamite, blew to bits pig, boy and crocodile.

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