The Cove Brook Crocodile

My old friend Axel has told me about another sighting of the infamous Cove Brook Crocodile.  Apparently it was seen by an old lady walking her dog one morning last week.  There it was; hiding in the reeds, waiting for a Mallard Duck to float by.  The old
lady (no
one knows her name or where she lives) is a friend of Axel’s mates, brothers, neighbours, sister’s mum.  The Cayman Crocodile has also been seen by a kid who knows his Croc’s because he loves watching reruns of Steve Irwin’s Crocodile Hunter on the Discovery Channel.  Local folklore says that the Croc was put into the river by an unscrupulous pet shop owner who couldn’t get permission to open a new shop in-between the newsagents and the curry house.  Into the Brook went the Croc, and also a terrapin that is regularly seen sitting on a log, sunning himself next to an abandoned shopping trolley. 

     So does a Cayman Crocodile live in the middle of the local council estate; or is it another of those local urban myths?  Perhaps my Girlfriend and I should take a walk along the brook path late one night, armed only with a torch to see if we can find the monster!     

Cove Brook - Farnborough.  Home of  a Crocodile?