--- title: Man Hurt After Jumping Into Crocodile Waters to Impress Girl description: An 18-year-old is recovering from broken bones after he jumped into crocodile-infested waters in Australia to impress a British backpacker. canonical: https://time.com/4711267/crocodile-attack-news/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-23T19:48:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:11.317Z og:title: Man Hurt After Jumping Into Crocodile Waters to Impress Girl og:description: "I punched it in the snout and on my second hit I got it straight in the eye" og:url: https://time.com/4711267/crocodile-attack-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Hurt After Jumping Into Crocodile Waters to Impress Girl twitter:description: "I punched it in the snout and on my second hit I got it straight in the eye" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Teen Jumped Into Crocodile-Infested Waters to Impress a Girl. It Did Not Go Well by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Mar 23, 2017 7:48 PM UTC by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Mar 23, 2017 7:48 PM UTC An 18-year-old is recovering from broken bones and scarring after he jumped into [crocodile-infested waters](http://time.com/4461082/watch-vandals-leave-3-crocodiles-in-an-australian-school/) in northern Queensland, Australia, to impress a young female backpacker. Shortly after entering the water, Lee De Paauw, was – unsurprisingly – attacked by a crocodile. The predator bit down on one of his arms and attempted to take him under, but fortunately De Paauw managed to fend the creature off and escaped relatively unscathed. “I punched it in the snout and on my second hit I got it straight in the eye and then it let go,” he told [_9 News Perth_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3HLyR-CDYQ). When asked how he would describe his actions, De Paawu simply said: “Stupidity.” Sophie Paterson, the woman Du Paauw was attempting to impress, compared the incident to the blockbuster movie _Jaws_. “You’ve seen _Jaw_ _s_,” she said. “It was kind of like that. There was a lot of blood, a lot of bone, it was pretty horrendous.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4711267/crocodile-attack-news/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4711267/crocodile-attack-news/"},"headline":"This Teen Jumped Into Crocodile-Infested Waters to Impress a Girl. It Did Not Go Well","datePublished":"2017-03-23T19:48:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:11.317Z","description":"\"I punched it in the snout and on my second hit I got it straight in the eye\"","url":"https://time.com/4711267/crocodile-attack-news/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Australia","animals","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4711267/crocodile-attack-news/","name":"This Teen Jumped Into Crocodile-Infested Waters to Impress a Girl. It Did Not Go Well"}}]}] ```