Big crocodile!!

Are these pics of a crocodile in New Orleans real or a hoax?

An e-mail has been going around saying "This crocodile was found in New Orleans swimming down the street. 21 FT long, 4,500 lbs, around 80 years old minimum. Specialists said that he was looking to eat humans because he was too old to catch animals. This crocodile was killed by the army last Sunday at 3:00 pm, currently he is in the freezer at the Azur hotel. The contents of its stomach will be analyzed this Friday at 2:30pm"







Hoax!..............Kinda

The pictures are real but the location and info on the croc are wrong. Apparently, the photographs were actually taken in Pointe Noire, Republic of the Congo,in 2003. The original email message is very similar to the current version, except that the prankster has relocated the action to New Orleans rather than Africa. According to an article discussing the original message on About.com, information about this giant crocodile was published on July 17, 2003 in La Semaine Africaine, a French language Congolese magazine.

Its an African croc that is about 16 ft and 1800 LBS at about 50 yrs old.