Giant croc shot in Northern Territory, loaded into ute BIG FELLA: A giant 4.8m crocodile is draped across the back of a Toyota ute after being shot dead in the Northern Territory. RESIDENTS of a Northern Territory town have used a backhoe to load a giant croc into a ute after it was shot. NT News reader Jacob Brant tipped us off with a Facebook message. "4.8m croc caught at Palumpa yesterday," he wrote. Senior Parks And Wildlife Ranger Tommy Nichols says police and council officers trapped and shot the croc in a billabong on the outskirts of Palumpa, about 240km south-west of Darwin. "We had a report the other day that there was a large crocodile there that was menacing the kids," the ABC reported Mr Nichols as saying. Read full story at ntnews.com.au