Overview
- A walker reported a crocodile at the shore of a pond between Beindersheim and Großniedesheim on Saturday.
- Police were alerted around 3 p.m. to Großniedesheimer Straße in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis and responded to the scene.
- Officers located what appeared to be a crocodile before determining it was a lifelike plastic figure.
- Authorities reported no danger to the public and no evidence of a real animal at the site.
- The origin of the decoy remains unknown, and regional outlets reported the episode as a local curiosity on March 1.