Fat 100-year-old crocodile dies after gorging on chickens thrown to him by worshippers.

A greedy crocodile has died from overeating after record numbers of worshippers started throwing goats and chickens into its pond in a bid to get good luck.

For years, visitors had gone to the Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali Shrine in Sadar Upazila of Bagerhat district in south-western Bangladesh, in the belief that feeding the crocodile would guarantee them luck in troubled economic times.

But priests at the shrine said that a large number of worshippers in recent months had been turning up and offering sacrifices to the crocodile, who had rapidly grown very fat from the offerings,

Crocodile keeper Mohammed Sarwar, 40, said: 'We were aware of the problem but were not sure what to do about it. The legend is that anybody who feeds the hunger of the crocodiles will have their hearts desire fulfilled. 

'Usually it was just a chicken but more recently people have been offering even more, including goats, believing that big sacrifices meant more chance of a wish being granted.'blind or stupid what do you think?