Vince Nathan was woken up by the sound of his dogs Boff and Bluey barking at 1.30am yesterday and got up out of bed to look around his house.
A terrified couple had a hilarious response after finding a huge crocodile inside their house – which had been hiding for two weeks.
Vince Nathan, from Darwin, Australia, was disturbed by his dogs Boff and Bluey at around 1.30am yesterday and got out of bed to look around his house to see what all the fuss was about. But as he got up, the crocodile was just sitting in his laundry – and terrified Vince after he hissed at him. “As I came around the corner, I nearly stood on him, he was sitting there,” Nathan told 9News Darwin.
“He opened his mouth and hissed at me. I took off.” Vince quickly fled the scene after he almost stood on the reptile and called his wife- Raylene. “I call my wife and said ‘Ray, come look, come look, there’s a croc here, mate’,” he said.
A quick call to the local snake catcher was his next plan but at 1.30am he wasn’t expecting a response. “When you call them it goes to voicemail it usually goes ‘if there is a buffalo in the area or a dangerous dog please leave a message’ and I’ll get back to you,” he said. I’m going, ‘Well, it’s sort of a dangerous dog’.”
Nathan is unclear how the croc got into his landury but reckons he’s been there for around two weeks hiding in plain sight. “Ray had been going there the last two weeks everyday doing washing and not even half a metre away this croc was under the table,” Nathan said. “We’re not near any water to the west of us, we’ve got a beach which is five kilometres away and we’ve got a creek that goes up there called crocodile creek. He would’ve walked a good two to three kilometres plus to get to us.”
It comes after a couple managed to escape their flooded car, the blistering heat and two nights of being stalked by a killer crocodile in Australia. The couple were with their two dogs in remote north west Queensland when they had to be rescued by emergency crews from the Lifeflight rescue helicopter on Saturday.
The pair, who are in their 50s, had no food or bottled water and were treated for dehydration and exposure after three days of 40 degree heat. They managed to attract attention after writing two large “SOS” signs in the sand. The incident happened near the Staaten River National Park in Queensland’s Gulf Country, well over 300km west of Cairns.
State-funded rescue helicopter organisation LifeFlight detailed the rescue, saying the pair were travelling in a 4WD that had been washed away by flood waters after they tried to cross a river and the vehicle was flooded by a large wave.