Did you hear the rumor about the croc in New Orleans?

The Crocodile (or alligator) Combing the Waters of New Orleans Looking for People to Eat-Fiction!
bullet Summary of the eRumor
The email comes with pictures of a huge crocodile saying that he was found in the streets of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina and is 21 feet long and weighs 4,500 pounds.
The eRumor claims that the croc is more than 80 years old and is too aged to catch animals so was looking for people instead.
The story claims that the reptile was shot by Army troops "last Sunday" and that its carcass is in a freezer at the Azur Hotel.

The Truth
This story is a hoax.
The pictures are authentic but are of a crocodile that was captured in Congo, Africa, long before hurricane Katrina.
Some versions say it's an alligator that was found in the streets.
The references to Army troops and the Azur Hotel are of Congo.

Better estimates of the size of the croc are about 16 feet long and more than 1,000 pounds.

Updated 9/20/05
A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:
Now this is a Crocodile ! 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 it's stomach will be analyzed this Friday at 2:30pm.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hurricane-croc.htm

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If dude was too old to catch animals, he was too old to catch people. ... Then again some people ...
Gracious! He was enormous. Wonder how old he was?
And that would have made Headline News and since I am a junkie for "half the news, all the time" I would have seen it.

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