Lacoste Anyone?

I got this news from the ABS-CBN news website. A resident spotted a crocodile in one of the floodwaters of Cainta. He took a picture of it, along with 3 other witnesses. It has been reported that this crocodile must have escaped from the Pasig Rainforest Park and there could be more crocodiles, and other creatures out there. Scary.

According to his accounts:

“It was pitch black. There was no electricity or whatever,” he recalled. “But we
had a flash light. We trained our flashlight on the thing and saw that it was a
crocodile.”

Scared by the close encounter, Lambert said they stepped back slowly by a few feet and avoided making sudden movements. “We didn’t panic because we didn’t want to alarm it.”

Creepy.

The worse part is, Pasig city Mayor Robert Eusebio denied earlier that any of the crocodiles from the forest park escaped. He said that the animals in the Park are well kept in their respective cages.

So this could mean that the animal may come from wherever, and there could be more out there. They may have inhabited the swampy areas of the river, I dunno...

This resident's encounter with the crocodile is not the only one involving wildlife that victims reported in the aftermath of the disaster wrought by typhoon Ondoy. At the height of the floods, some residents also reported of snakes suddenly appearing in their houses.