"Crocs don't care if you are black, white, or purple, a tourist or a local, liberal or a truck driving red-neck. Swim in croc territory and you are bait." -Bryan Grieg Fry

With the post-cyclone flooding in Australia, crocs are on the move, and the number of croc attacks are on the rise. One would hope eventually folks would learn to stay away from areas where the salties live after a flood, but they haven't.

First up is a man being lauded a hero, although some of us still expect to see him up for a Darwin Award. Reading this from Daily Mail (and numerous other news agencies) made my head hurt:

Eddie Sigai, nicknamed 'Crocky Balboa' by his friends, punched and gouged the saltwater croc after the powerful animal grabbed hold of his hand.

The 37-year-old, from Weipa, Queensland, was swimming with his daughters Jennifer, 17, and Monica, 12, at a creek last week when the crocodile caught hold of his left hand and dragged him underwater.

Weipa is in Queensland, but still a distance from where the full impact of Yasi. Why a father would allow his children to swim in croc-infestedwaters is beyond me. But in true Aussie swagger, he earned a catchy nickname, "Crocky Balboa" and a tale to bore the pub with.

From ABC News, report of a wayward freshie ending up in someone's pool in Mt. Isa:

"We went and had a good look around the perimeter the following day and I really don't know how it got in," he said.

"Maybe it washed under somewhere in a fence line, but it's too hard to say whether it got in or whether it was put in.

"But I find it hard to believe it did manage to get in by itself."

A 14 year old boy is missing and presumed taken by a croc. From The Australian:

NT Police said they were told late this morning that the boy was playing with his brothers in a creek at Milingimbi in Arnhem Land when he was apparently seized by a crocodile.

Members of the Milingimbi community began searching the creek and surrounding area for the boy, but there had been no sign of him.

Members of the NT police territory response section were flying to the community from Darwin this afternoon to lead the search for the boy, police said in a statement.

Milingimbi is part of the Crocodile Island group off the coast of Arnhem Land, about 440km east of Darwin.

Last, a warning issued:

Chief Minister Paul Henderson is warning people not to play in swollen waterways because flooding has made it easy for saltwater crocodiles to move around.

"We're urging everybody to keep out of those waterways, keep out of those lagoons, keep out of those steams because crocodiles are on the move," he said.

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