I was just thinking, perhaps all the fiction that has this as a plot point chooses it because of the man bites dog nature of the incident.

that's true, but among humans the "impressing a girl" pattern seems to be more open ended as to how you will do it, and thus you end up with croc-riding accidents at times.

I really did some extremely dumb things in my twenties that I'm extremely lucky didn't kill me.

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