Fitzroy Crossing floods: Freshwater crocodile thrashes after cop tries to catch it with towel
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A wild moment: The cops use a wet towel to try to subdue a VERY angry alligator strolling down a suburban street, but fail miserably.
- A crocodile has caused a ruckus in a small town
- It took several hours to subdue the stray crocodile.
- It is believed that it came to the city in the recent floods.
A huge freshwater crocodile wandering through a recently flooded town caused an uproar as locals and police tried and failed to subdue it.
The three meter crocodile was seen by a local resident on a path at Fitzroy Crossing, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, at around 2am on Thursday.
Local residents, police officers, county rangers and local aboriginal rangers rushed to the scene to try to catch the reptile with whatever they could get their hands on, and numerous attempts failed miserably.
One policeman was filmed trying to calm the crocodile with a wet towel, to no avail, while another tried to grab it with a pole and wire noose.
The crocodile made light work of the metal pole, freeing itself from the trap in one swift thrashing.
A 10-foot freshwater crocodile (pictured) has caused a commotion at the recently flooded Fitzroy Crossing in the early hours of Thursday.
“When the crocodile started to squirm, my two children ran away and then came back laughing,” said Jasmine Bedford, a local resident. abc.
“We were on YouTube ‘how to catch a gator’ because we weren’t sure what to do.”
Ms Bedford said everyone in the remote community was stunned, especially since the reptile was a freshwater crocodile, which is generally more subdued than its saltwater relatives.
‘I was excited and surprised. It was a freshwater crocodile, but it was huge,” Bedford said.
“There was a lot of jumping and scaring, because it would catch you off guard and it would come out with a hiss or a growl, it was a lot of fun.”
Locals were amused by the stray crocodile and many in the city stayed up all night to try to catch a glimpse of the massive crocodile.
The crocodile was eventually shot with a tranquilizer by a local wildlife volunteer after all other attempts to catch it failed.
The crocodile had bitten and tore another piece of dog catching equipment before falling unconscious.
It took several hours to finally subdue the alligator, as officers and rangers used everything to hand, including a wet towel (pictured) and dog-catching equipment.
“In the end, it was all quite entertaining, especially now that we know the crocodile made it back home safely,” said Ms Bedford.
It was then safely returned to a local waterway.
Another freshwater crocodile, estimated to be around 1.5m long, was found later that day in the brush around the corner from where the initial incident occurred.
The crocodiles are believed to have come to town from the recent floods that devastated Fitzroy Crossing just three weeks ago.
Flooding reached a record 15.81 meters on January 4, destroying 30 houses, damaging the bridge over the Fitzroy River and forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate.
The crocodile is believed to have been brought to the city by the recent flooding of the Fitzroy River (pictured) which reached a record 15.8 meters on January 4.