Imagine. A thief sneaks up to your gate with a punctured tin of mackerel filled with rat killer (the standard method of poisoning guard dogs in Jamaica). Something rustles in the nearby bushes and the thief, figuring its your dog, throws the tin in the general direction of the rustling. Suddenly, a ten foot black lizard scurries out of the underbrush and leaps at the gate, seizing the surprised thief by the face and dragging him back into a large hole.

Increased home security? Maybe.

But just imagine trying to get work each morning, and if your kids start to go missing, well, you’ve only got yourself to blame for keeping a Komodo Dragon in your yard.

Komodo Dragons are about as unpleasant as a reptile can get as five European tourists found out last week after being stranded on a remote Indonesian island.

Further stories about the sheer nastiness of these beasts make for some very interesting reading (like this story about a dragon trying to eat Sharon Stone’s husband) but this particular Guardian article which describes their habits as ‘the vilest animal practices ever witnessed by man’ is an especially good bedtime story for badly behaved children.

See the article HERE

Source: Guardian UK