Posted on 08/20/2019 10:37:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
ug. 16 (UPI) -- A 7-foot crocodile was found swimming in an Ohio creek while about 16 kids from a local church group were playing in the water nearby.
Rick Turnbull, an instructor with Hilltop Equestrian Center, said the children, first- through sixth-graders, were playing in Bantas Fork Creek when one of the adults supervising the group spotted a shadow in the water.
The adults quickly got the children out of the water and the adults then got a clear look at the crocodile lurking 20 feet away. Turnbull said the crocodile swam right up to the bridge where the group gathered to look at it.
"He wasn't afraid of us. He swam under it, popped his head up and looked at us," Turnbull told CNN.
Wildlife Officer Brad Turner was summoned to the scene. He said the crocodile was killed out of concern for public safety.
State wildlife officials said the crocodile was likely a pet that escaped or was released into the wild when it became too large to keep. They said an investigation into the reptile's origins is underway.
You can’t let crocodiles roam around Ohio. Now places full of libs....
I thought crocodiles were saltwater animals that can tolerate brackish water, like oysters, but not freshwater.
Or Trump.
Until Trump was elected... they never found crocodiles or alligators in Ohio...
Then along came Trump...
I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist.
Trustees exclaimed, “He never bungles!”
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
Once day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
“You mean,” he said, “a crocodile.”
—Ogden Nash, from Verses from 1929 On
It would have taken more than a year for the crocodile to reach that size. How did it survive Ohio winters?
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