Australia: Koala takes joy ride on freight train

[bevans]

I thought this might be of some interest as it is a great feel good story.

https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/adelaide-freight-train-workers-discover-joyriding-koala

A koala has been caught trying his hand at hitchhiking this morning, after being spotted clinging onto a train in Adelaide.

The cheeky marsupial had jumped onto a freight train owned by Tenfield Management Coup in Adelaide Hills.

The koala was spotted by one of the freight workers just after 8am. Together workers managed to get the koala down from the train without incident.

The workers kept the adventurous koala in a cardboard box until Koala Rescue could come and pick him up.

He is now at the vet being checked over and will be returned back to the wild.

A koala hitched a ride on a freight train in Australia only to be discovered on a reefer at the rail yards.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

So ducks can go in passenger trains

Koala bears take reefers...

Anybody want to hazard a guess at where one might place a shark?

 

[ian959]

PLEASE do not call them koala bears... they are NOT bears, just plain old koalas.

 

[coupwotcoup]

...and they all have the clap, no?

 

[Groningen]

Pigeons?!

 

[ian959]

...and they all have the clap, no?

They suffer a chlamydia epidemic yes, but no they don't all have "the clap" which is generally the term for gonorrhea. In some areas the infection rate is 90% but other areas it is much lower. Sorry for being OT...

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

If you catch gonorrhea from a Koala, what in God's name are you doing...?

 

[coupwotcoup]

..not wearing the correct protection?