Anxious crocodile swims with a pool noodle in the Florida Keys

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Everyone wants to stay safe when they’re taking a dip in the water — even crocodiles, it seems.

After a photo of the world’s most anxious (I’m assuming) crocodile using a pool noodle in the Florida Keys was posted on Instagram, local news outlets have been marveling at this unusual sight.

“Crock on a float,” reads Victor F. Perez’s concise Instagram caption.

Crock on a float #keylargo #rockemnreelem #floating #keyslife

A post shared by Victor F Perez (@vfpkeys) on Aug 6, 2018 at 5:16pm PDT

Perez reportedly snapped a photo of the crocodile in Key Largo earlier this month, when he spotted it near the 105.5 mile marker in Bayside, according to Perez’s comments on his Instagram post. Read more…

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Pesky crocodile steals fisherman’s catch like it’s NBD

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We get fighting for what you’ve worked for, but maybe not up against a crocodile.

A fisherman came a bit too close to the reptile while trying to reel in a barramundi at Cahills Crossing in the Northern Territory, Australia.

In a video posted on the Facebook page Bonker’s Adventure on Sunday, the crocodile can be seen chasing after the fish — still attached to the line — then wrestling it away as the fisherman retreats. 

Uh, yeah, no thanks.

“I knew it was a bit risky but the plan was to stay well away from the water, even once I got my fish,” fisherman Luke Robertson told NT News. Read more…

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Our dystopian ‘Black Mirror’ future is here thanks to Pizza Hut

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 Well, every Black Mirror viewer knew it’d only be a matter of time before we started ranking social class using people’s Uber ratings, or wasting our lives in a VR game, or uploading our digital selves to the toilet — or whatever.

But actually, one Black Mirror prediction just became vividly real at CES. And it’s more horrifying than all of those combined.

Pizza Hut took to Twitter to unveil the state-of-the-art tech that will revolutionize the way the company inserts its cheese-covered cardboard circles into your mouth hole. Its driverless pizza delivery vehicle, the e-Palette developed by Toyota, works eerily similar to the fictional one seen in Black Mirror‘s “Crocodile” episode.  Read more…

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