The powers of a beautiful woman are limitless. Every male at one point or another probably has acted fool to impress a lady.
That said, we take you to Australia where an 18-year old teenager decided to jump into a river even though he knew it was crocodile infested. My man went for love and nearly lost an arm. Check out the “smh” caliber details.
Lee De Paauw, 18, says he’d had about “ten cups of goon” with friends when he deliberately jumped into the Johnstone River at Innisfail early on Sunday morning, to impress “a beautiful backpacker” named Sophie Paterson.
He had been teasing a group of travelers by telling them crocodiles were more likely to attack a backpacker than an Australian, when he decided to prove his point and jump into the water. The crocodile grabbed him almost immediately.
“(The crocodile) took me underneath the water, shook its head a bit, and I managed to get a good punch in on its eye, and then it let go and I swam back to the stairs,” Mr De Paauw told The TODAY Show this morning. The Queensland teen said he didn’t feel any pain at first, but that didn’t last long. “I didn’t feel no pain at first, it was all adrenalin, but afterwards when I walked up to the main street I was just in pure agony,” he said.
“I couldn’t stop screaming.” Ms Paterson said she “watched on in horror” as a three-meter crocodile suddenly latched onto the dare-devil’s arm. “I’ve never heard a guy scream like that,” she told 9NEWS. “There was a lot of blood, a lot of bone.” When TODAY host Karl Stefanovic asked Mr De Paauw if Ms Paterson was special to him, however, he seemed less than enthusiastic. “She’s not really, just another girl,” he said. “But she’s really good looking and had been kind to me the night before.”
There ya have it ladies and gents. Logic behind why he almost lost his life to a killer croc “she’s really good looking”.
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