The crocodile that Bengaluru residents found on a main street.

(The pothole has been fixed by authorities, the artist posted on Facebook today)

Commuters in Bengaluru were somewhat startled to discover a crocodile on a main street.Till they realized that the reptile wasn't real.The life-sized croc was created by a local artist named Baadal Nanjundaswamy, who wanted to protest a giant pot hole that has not been fixed in the northern part of the city for days. On Thursday, he painted the area around his crocodile to look like a pond."Everyone has the potential to express themselves in his or her own way. This is my way of communicating a grievance," the artist told The Indian Express The 36-year-old tagged local city officials and the police to the images that he posted on social media . The pothole was covered up today, reports ABP news