Two teenagers were rescued from the Australian flood waters after they tried to use a blow-up doll as a flotation device.
The couple, both aged 19, were found by rescuers clinging to a tree after falling off the doll on Victoria's Yarra River.
They were told off by police who warned that the blow-up toy was not a recognised flotation device.
So far 31 people are known to have died in the floods that have hit Queensland, Australia in the last two weeks.
The township of Grantham, 60 miles west of Brisbane, is thought to have been worst hit by the waters which swept through the town without warning.
Meanwhile across Brisbane, 11,700 homes and 6,000 businesses in 50 suburbs were inundated, and a further 14,000 properties damaged as flood waters peaked.
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The couple, both aged 19, were found by rescuers clinging to a tree after falling off the doll on Victoria's Yarra River.
They were told off by police who warned that the blow-up toy was not a recognised flotation device.
So far 31 people are known to have died in the floods that have hit Queensland, Australia in the last two weeks.
The township of Grantham, 60 miles west of Brisbane, is thought to have been worst hit by the waters which swept through the town without warning.
Meanwhile across Brisbane, 11,700 homes and 6,000 businesses in 50 suburbs were inundated, and a further 14,000 properties damaged as flood waters peaked.
Story link with pictures: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ers-use-blow-up-doll-as-flotation-device.html
