The recent local news story of the Stradbroke Island Crocodile Mystery has been solved by a bunch of internationally renowned private investigators.
For a few weeks, locals and tourists have claimed to have seen a crocodile swimming in the beaches of North Stradbroke Island, which lies in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane. And is a very strange place for a crocodile to be.
With the story and legend of the Stradbroke Island Crocodile becoming bigger each day, the Queensland State Government stepped in, bringing in the Scooby Doo Investigation Group from the US, keen to make a better effort of controlling crocodile crime than juvenile crime.
Despite protests from Barnaby Joyce at the quarantine exception for the dog of the group, the team got underway quickly to solve the Stradbroke Island Crocodile Mystery.
After a few dead ends, and two of the investigators needing some emergency snacks at an inconvenient time, they solved the case within two day in a process that did involve one sequence of running through various doors and hallways of a local office.
They eventually cornered the crocodile on a local beach, and once in custody reached for the head, to find it was no crocodile but human dressed as a crocodile.
Upon further questioning the villain was found to be the manager of a local tourism business, Mr Jeff Effbee.
Mr Effbee has ran a paddleboarding tour company on North Stradbroke since March 2022, trying to take advantage of the tourists from Brisbane and the people who took advantage of working from home to pay top dollar for a house.
But sadly the business has been very slow, so Mr Effbee devised a plan to have a crocodile swim near the beach to boost interest in the island and his waning business. Mr Effbee has been out swimming at popular swimming locations on the island in a crocodile suit to drum up business and attention from media in South East Queensland.
But his plan eventually failed with the junior gumshoes solving the case after spotting him walking out onto the beach in said costume on a beach just before sunset.
We attempted to interview Mr Effbee as he was being led driven away by the Police, but could only catch the phrase “and I would have got away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids.”
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