Me too! I'll buy them a boat!

They need a boat and a bridge. How wide is the river? Is it 20 feet wide or 2000 feet wide?

I would definitely contribute to the boat.

I just sent BBC an email, and I also have a friend that works at BBC - I'll send him an email to see if he can help put me in touch with someone that can facilitate this.

A South African village is demanding that a bridge be built across a crocodile-infested river to stop children swimming it to get to school.

That just makes way too much sense to ever get done.

Isn't the WTO afraid this could result in a precedent allowing people all over to demand safe conditions for their children? Maybe Coca Cola gets water from the river for a bottling plant and is afraid a bridge would take .001% off its profits? Do these kids really need to go to school, anyway? That probably just decreases their likelihood becoming corporate slave labor. And doesn't the local government probably see child mortality as a remedy for overpopulation?

I mean, really, if it's good for people or animals or the environment, it's going to screw with somebody's commerce.

What an unreasonable request.

I suspect the crocs are quite happy with the arrangement though...

Doohickie!

I would rather my child be ignorant than send them across that river. That is terrible.