Do Crocodiles Really Tear People Apart Every Three Months in Queensland?

And we ain't spending any more time on it.

#auspol is full of ridiculous and memorable moments. There was #oniongate, there was the one time in the 1990s when Pauline Hanson made a video in case she was murdered, and even a strange tax rendition of "12 Days of Christmas".

But one of the more recent memorable moments was North Queensland's Independent MP Bob Katter's bizarre reaction to the same-sex marriage postal vote.

So, naturally, ABC Fact Check did the hard yards and fact-checked his scary claim that crocs tear people to shreds every three months.

Since 1985, the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection has shown that, on average, a person is "torn to pieces" by a crocodile every three-and-a-half years. That's not quite the sensationalist amount Katter suggested.

Now, while the rate of fatalities has actually increased in recent years, there's still only been six deaths in the past decade.

Since 2015, there have been six attacks with three being fatal so, at most, Katter could argue the rate is closer to being one a year. For comparison, 243 deaths were recorded on Queensland roads in 2015, so it's not quite a leading cause of death in the state.

But to the real matter at hand.

Katter infamously said in 1989 that none of the residents living in his electorate were gay and that he would walk backwards to Bourke if that was untrue (about a 300hr walk, good luck!).

It's not surprising he's still likely to vote 'no' in the upcoming same-sex marriage bill despite 46.7 per cent of his North Queensland electorate of Kennedy supporting the 'Yes' vote (a pretty considerable amount for an electorate without a single gay person, apparently).

So, was Katter really concerned about crocodiles tearing up his constituents or was it just a way of avoiding the question?