QLD Bloke Swears Up And Down He Eyed A Croc Chilling In The Brisbane River

So maybe you’ve read a lot of the recent croc yarns that have been circulating recently – you know, about the scaly bastards finding their way into beaches, golf courses and playgrounds, merrily eating people along the way – and felt a little bit smug, because despite our warnings to the contrary, you think that something as trivial as “living in a densely populated urban centre” will be enough to protect you from the rampant savagery of the Australian wildlife.
Well you’re wrong. It’s not. There’s crocodiles in the Brisbane River.
Okay, allegedly. There are allegedly crocs in the Brisbane, according to a Karana Downs man called Tristan Van Rye (a name that definitely does not sound like something you’d call an Aldi-brand Pied Piper). He swears blind he saw a croc in the river at Mt Crosby Weir, west of Brisbane, telling the Courier Mail:
I was driving along the Mount Crosby Weir and was looking out on to the water on the highside when I saw something.

I got out and it looked right at me, then did a weird little backpedal and dived down under the water. It would have been about 2m long.
Obviously locals, who have lived in the area for a long time and never seen a croc in the weir, are pretty sceptical, with some suggesting that what Van Rye glimpsed in the water was actually a lungfish. 
…or a log.
Van Rye does not agree with these analyses. 
Just for the record, logs don’t have four legs, a tail and swim.
It’s not the first croc to have been confirmed well south of their “accepted range” – which is not surprising really, considering that “acceptable” to a human person and “acceptable” to a reptilian monster with a thirst for blood are probably two very different things.
Anyway. In case you had any doubts: stay OUT. OF. THE WATER. 
Source: Courier Mail.
Image: arthurng / Getty. 

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