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Shocking images show daredevil tourists balancing on raft as they dangle meat to crocs in Thailand

Risky activity has become popular with Chinese holidaymakers

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TOURISTS tempt fate as they dangle chunks of beef to attract ravenous crocodiles from aboard a ramshackle raft.

Luring the 10ft beasts to leap for their lunch had been popular with Chinese trippers.

Luring the 10ft beasts to leap for their lunch had been popular with Chinese trippers
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Luring the 10ft beasts to leap for their lunch had been popular with Chinese trippersCredit: SWNS

Holidaymakers tied pieces of meat flimsy canes as they tempted the ravenous reptiles on the raft in a pond used for croc farming.

But after a shocked cabbie posted pictures on Twitter, police and officials made a snap decision — and shut down the perilous attraction in Chonburi, Thailand, within hours.

Holidaymakers tied pieces of meat flimsy canes as they tempted the ravenous reptiles on the raft in a pond
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Holidaymakers tied pieces of meat flimsy canes as they tempted the ravenous reptiles on the raft in a pondCredit: SWNS

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The raft sat in a pond used for croc farming
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The raft sat in a pond used for croc farmingCredit: SWNS
Ravenous crocs snapped at the meat hung by flimsy rods
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Ravenous crocs snapped at the meat hung by flimsy rodsCredit: SWNS
Police and officials made a snap decision — and shut down the perilous attraction
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Police and officials made a snap decision — and shut down the perilous attractionCredit: SWNS

Taxi driver Jon Nok, 40, said: "I've been a taxi driver for more than 20 years and never seen anything like this before.

"It looks so dangerous I just had to take a picture."

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