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Butterfly33 View Profile	Police seize Mafia boss’s pet crocodile Here’s another of the Mafia’s trademark offers-you-can’t-refuse: pay or be eaten by a crocodile. Italy’s anti-Mafia police unit said on Wednesday it has seized a crocodile used by an alleged Naples mob boss to intimidate local businessmen from whom he demanded protection money. Officers searching for weapons in the man’s home outside the southern Italian city last week found the crocodile living on his terrace, said police official Sergio Di Mauro. The crocodile, weighing 40kg and 1.7 metres long, was fed a diet of live rabbits and mice, Di Mauro said. He said the suspect, an alleged boss in the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate, used to invite extortion victims to his home and threaten to set the animal on them if they didn’t pay or grant him favours. The full story: [http://www.dailymercury.com.au/story/2009/09/24/police-seize-mafia-boss-pet-crocodile/]
09/27/09  09:51pm

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