This is weird:

A cranky koala achieved what an angry croc couldn't - it beat off thieves.

The bizarre incident began when Rockhampton police in Queensland received a tip-off that someone had a crocodile in their possession.

"The police came to the zoo, checked out our exhibit and we were down a female freshwater crocodile,'' said Tom Wyatt at Rockhampton City Council.

The 1.2 metre crocodile - known simply as "the girl freshie" - was dragged by thieves over a 2.4 metre fence in the middle of the night.

"Can you imagine these people struggling over a 2.4 metre security fence with a writhing wild reptile?" he said.

"It's not a baby you are holding in your arms here. We are talking about 40 kilograms and 1.2 metres of absolute fury."

"They are not man-eaters [like salt water crocodiles]. But they can still give you a nasty bite."

The thieves originally planned to take one of the zoo's koalas and only changed tack after it proved too vicious, 21-year-old zookeeper Wil Kemp told smh.com.au.

He had been told by police that four people were involved in the wildlife heist, which allegedly involved stealing a koala and swapping it for drugs.

"The original plan was to steal a koala - that's what they were going to use to swap [for] the drugs,'' Mr Kemp said.

"[But] apparently [the koala] scratched the shit out of them.''

"The blokes have quite a lot of scratches and lacerations caused by the koala.''

The thieves then decided to take a crocodile instead.

"I don't know what makes someone go, 'Oh we tried to steal a koala and that didn't work so lets go and steal a croc.' "

"The people who did it must have been quite stupid. It's the last thing I wound have thought a member of the general public would try to steal for drugs."

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He thinks it must have been taken on Monday morning when another drama occurred at the zoo.

"One of the wombats got bitten by a snake. No one can officially remember seeing [the female] crocodile on Monday."

Um....

Girl pees on iPod nano, thinking it's a pregnancy test

After a night of partying a group of people decided to continue drinking at their house. A girl who believed that she was pregnant (she had vomited in the morning) entered the toilet and discovered a white strip which she thought to be a pregnancy test. She peed on it and came out to show it to the others to figure out the result. It turned out that it was in fact an iPod nano, not a pregnancy test. So what happened to the iPod? It stopped working. The owner tried to send it in for warranty repairs, only to be informed that "the warranty does not cover pee-related damage".

I could see that happening maybe with a Shuffle. NSM a Nano.

Check out the pictures - there is kinda' a similarity. The pregnancy test thingie is white plastic with a round thingie on one end....

Still, you'd have to be pretty darn wasted....

Totally with a Shuffle. Which is pretty much better than trying to eat it, which is the next drunk thing I can imagine happening.

Totally with a Shuffle. Which is pretty much better than trying to eat it, which is the next drunk thing I can imagine happening.

Well, you often hear of drunk men in bars daring each other to shove various objects up their asses....

tommyrot goes to different bars than I do.

Is "The Manhole" bar still around? (in Boystown.)

TAR is moving to Wednesdays: [link]

you often hear of drunk men in bars daring each other to shove various objects up their asses....

But shuffles look nothing like penises.

I bought soy milk by mistake yeserday instead of rice milk. But because I need hot cereal in the mornings, I opened a carton.

It doesn't taste half bad. Kinda weird.

The OC made me sniffle with Kirsten and Seth at the AA meeting. No one on TV has the right amount of luggage. Either everything fits in a shoulder duffle, or it's a comically huge number of suitcases.