ha...this sums it up...
De Paauw has since revealed he accepted the dare to impress a young British backpacker.
“I just wanted to show the backpacker. I got her number and her name is Sophie,” he told Nova FM’s
Fitzy and Wippa this morning.
Mr De Paauw said he had jumped in the water and was swimming back to a jetty “when the croc grabbed my arm, dragged me back out and started rolling”.
“It took me out about six metres from the wharf.
I hit it once on the nose, it loosened a bit.
“I got another hit in and it was right on its eye. I was lucky because it just dropped me.”
Lee de Paauw, 18, was dared to jump into the croc-infested river. Picture: AAP/Facebook
Source:AAP
The backpacker in question, Sophie Paterson, told
The Courier-Mail that
Mr De Paauw was bragging about how he wasn’t afraid to swim in the croc-infested waters — so the group dared him to do it.
“It all happened very fast, pretty much as soon as he jumped in, there was splashing and screaming,” the 24-year-old said.
“There was blood everywhere and he just wouldn’t stop screaming.’’
Friends helped pull him from the water.
The group was reportedly drinking at the time of the attack.
The victim was taken to Innisfail District Hospital where he was stabilised, before being taken to Cairns Hospital for surgery.
British backpacker Sophie Paterson,