Invasion Foiled

China narrowly averted an invasion by the reptile legions of the Animal Uprising™. The clever crocodiles, disguised as innocent looking sacks, attempted to cross into China from Vietnam with the assistance of human accomplices. Alert border guards caught wind of the plot and arrested the miscreants.

BEIJING - Chinese police tracking a suspicious vessel on a border river in southwest China got a shock when they found 270 crocodiles, a state news agency reported Monday.

Xinhua News Agency said the seizure was the largest this year in Guangxi region, where 25 illegally captured crocodiles were discovered in the first six months.

Border police noticed the boat trying to land on the Chinese side of the Beilun River, which marks the border with Vietnam, early on Sunday.

Xinhua said four people carried bags off the boat, but jumped into the river and swam away when they saw the police.

Yeah, sure. They report it as if it was a human operation. We know better of course. The good news for china is that the crocs don't seem to have the knack for disguising themselves as well as the alligators do. They can camouflage themselves as doormats, after all.