The sleepy French village of Xertigny is on high alert following multiple sightings of a crocodile, Retuers reports.
Campaigning local newspaper L’Est Republicain has set up a webcam to record instances of the terrifying reptile crusing the local waterways, but has yet to capture anything more threatening than a water vole.
In the style of Jurassique Parque, a chicken has been tethered to a nerby fence in an effort to tempt the scaly monster from its lair, but the bird has so far eluded its jaws. Frustrated authorities are said to be considering draining the pool in a quest for answers.
“I think it’s carp,” said local angler Bruno Aime, to nods from the assembled reporters, moments before they checked their typing.
“[My amateurish homemade sonar] equipment doesn’t let you see the difference between a pike of a metre long and a caiman of 1.50 metres,” Aime shrugged, as he gnawed on a brie-stuffed baguette.
Laughable tales of crocodilians patrolling the sewers of major urban centres were popular in the 20th century, yet may be grounded in fact. Indeed, if Khmer artists ever had a sense of perspective or scale, such stories might be more commonplace than we had dared to fear.
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