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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's quirky Northern Territory has more crocodiles than humans, but they don't normally take the bus.
Driver Baz Young told the Australian Associated Press news agency he did not notice his reptilian passenger until a woman passenger pointed under his seat.
"I've got no idea where he came from," Young said on Thursday near Darwin, capital of the northern Australian region that covers an area five times the size of Britain stretching from tropical rainforest to desert.
"I believe someone must have taken him into the bus thinking that they'd take him somewhere and maybe he was too strong for them to hold so he disappeared under the seat and they've done a quiet exit and left me with the crocodile," he said.
"It's just one of those things that happen in the Territory."
The 75-cm (30-inch) crocodile had its jaws taped shut but still managed to scratch a police officer's hand when it was taken into custody before being handed to game wardens.
Driver Baz Young told the Australian Associated Press news agency he did not notice his reptilian passenger until a woman passenger pointed under his seat.
"I've got no idea where he came from," Young said on Thursday near Darwin, capital of the northern Australian region that covers an area five times the size of Britain stretching from tropical rainforest to desert.
"I believe someone must have taken him into the bus thinking that they'd take him somewhere and maybe he was too strong for them to hold so he disappeared under the seat and they've done a quiet exit and left me with the crocodile," he said.
"It's just one of those things that happen in the Territory."
The 75-cm (30-inch) crocodile had its jaws taped shut but still managed to scratch a police officer's hand when it was taken into custody before being handed to game wardens.
