Strangely enough, VisitCanberra has not been clamouring to use this image on its socials. C'est la vie.

Tim the Yowie Man, of course, brought this image to the world's attention. He was sent it by Richard Vorobieff, of Griffith, who spotted the rat and carp from a footpath at Bowen Park on his walk home from work this week.

"The carp was about two foot long. I don't know what the cause of death was (algal bloom related?) Or if the water rat had wrestled the fish to death, but when it's all said and done: Rakali (native water rat) 1, carp nil," Richard wrote to Tim.

Maybe we'll have to change that saying from "like a rat up a drainpipe" to "like a rat on a dead carp on Lake Burley Griffin".

Maybe not.

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