Golfer who stepped on crocodile awarded �8,500 damages

1140AM GMT eighteen March 2010

He managed to deflect off the sixteen feet (five metre) invertebrate by conflict it on the head Photo REUTERS

Hong Kee Siong, a 48-year-old businessman, pronounced he was "lucky to be alive" after he was bitten by a crocodile whilst seeking for a golf ball.

Mr Siong, who perceived �8,500 after a 6 year authorised battle, was pounded whilst personification a turn of golf at the A"Famosa Golf Resort in southern Malacca state.

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The office worker slipped in to a marshy bottom land and stepped on the crocodile, meditative it was a log.

Mr Siong, a father of two, told The Malay Mail "I have left by so much.

"People, golfers and friends have been swelling rumours about me.

"They pronounced I used a golf bar to strike and fool around around with a crocodile. Maybe it was meant to be a joke, but it was hurtful.

"I could not scold the story as the make a difference was in court."

Even after all these years, the mental recall of how he narrowly transient genocide still haunts him.

"Seeing images of the conflict in my head, I can still feel the pain," he said.

"When I am down, that feeling would return. When I dream, the be scared of being incompetent to shun would come back. It"s a memorable nightmare."

Doctors have twice diagnosed that he was pang from post-traumatic disorder, he said.

He managed to deflect off the sixteen feet (five metre) invertebrate by conflict it on the head, but was bitten on his left leg and had to get 38 stitches.

The case, dating behind to 2004, was staid out of court.

Lawyer Keppy Wong pronounced that given the conflict the review has fenced off the area a crocodile rearing belligerent and erected notice signs.