{"id":100442,"date":"2014-08-01T07:21:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=100442"},"modified":"2014-08-01T07:21:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T03:21:25","slug":"you-fancied-a-shower-too-snap-shocked-homeowner-discovers-a-crocodile-hiding-in-his-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=100442","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You fancied a shower too? Snap!&#8217; Shocked homeowner discovers a crocodile hiding in his bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bathrum-india.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100438\" alt=\"Dad Finds Croc In Bathroom When Going For A Shower\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bathrum-india.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bathrum-india.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bathrum-india-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bathrum-india-405x300.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kalpesh Patel could be forgiven for making a snap decision not to take a shower.<\/p>\n<p>After entering the bathroom of his home in western Indian the 41-year-old discovered a five-foot long crocodile had beaten him to it, and had taken up residence under his shower taps.<\/p>\n<p>He said when he told his wife and children not to go in the bathroom because there was a reptile there, not surprisingly, they didn&#8217;t believe him.<\/p>\n<p>So Mr Patel got his neighbours at Sojitra village, Gujarat, located about 80 kilometres from the city of Ahmedabad, to take a look, and they confirmed the find.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Patel said he had no idea how the crocodile got into his home, &#8216;but we weren&#8217;t prepared to let it out again&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The police were called and forestry officials then captured the crocodile.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the crocodile had been transported to a lake in the nearby Malataj village of Anand district where it had been released unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Kalpesh Patel could be forgiven for making a snap decision not to take a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":100438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[13038,13039],"class_list":["post-100442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-crocodile","tag-western-india","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}