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Was on a train yesterday and a woman got on with a penguin!

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VivaLeBeaver · 23/04/2011 12:34

Sat on the train and a woman comes racing up with a bundle under her arm. Sits down with this thing wrapped in a jumper which is sort of growling and hissing. The guard comes over for her money and she tells him she's got a penguin and she's taking it to the zoo which is at the next stop.

Guard looks a bit closer at the bird and points out that its a guillimot not a penguin. I'm now wetting myself with laughter. The woman asks the guard if the guillimot would have escaped from the zoo. The guard tells her its a wild bird and to go and put it back on the beach. She'd tied it's beak up and everything with a shoelace!!!!

I hope the poor bird is OK after been scooped up by a barmy OAP but it was so funny. Grin

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pinkyonthebeach · 23/04/2011 12:35

no wayyyyyy!!

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bubbleandsqueaks · 23/04/2011 12:43

OMG!

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VajazzHands · 23/04/2011 12:44
Grin
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VivaLeBeaver · 23/04/2011 12:49

In fairness to her at the zoo up the road they do have those little penguins - Humboldts? So she didn't think it was a massive Emperor penguin. But they do still look very different.

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D0G · 23/04/2011 12:51

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YesWhat · 23/04/2011 12:53

How the heck did she catch it?!

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albania · 23/04/2011 12:54

Shock:o
can you imagine if she had actually turned up at the zoo with it?

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BinEnd · 23/04/2011 12:54

Grin that's hilarious.

I wonder how many other animals she has "rescued" in her time!

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ChristinedePizan · 23/04/2011 12:55

How the hell do you catch a guillemot?

That is brilliantly bonkers

You'll be contacted by hacks about this story Viva, mark my words :o

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beautyspot · 23/04/2011 12:56

So instead of pick pick pick (ing) up a Penguin she got got got a Guillimot

(some of our younger viewers won't get this will they)

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ratspeaker · 23/04/2011 12:57

That takes the biscuit!

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VivaLeBeaver · 23/04/2011 12:57

Another woman on the train said the guillemots often get tired from too much flying out at sea. Just manage to get to the beach and then lie there exhausted while they recover.

I wish I'd taken a photo! I think the train guard was thinking "bloody tourists".

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Frimblypoo · 23/04/2011 13:01

[bugrin]
I laughed so hard a bit of wee came out!
Thank you!

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ChristinedePizan · 23/04/2011 13:01

Gosh, I didn't know that about guillemots - I shall have a look out for shagged out ones in future

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BalloonSlayer · 23/04/2011 13:03

beautyspot it perhaps should go:

"if you feel a little ga-ga-ga
g-g-g-grab you a guillemot."

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foxinthewoods · 23/04/2011 13:11

I'm hysterical here. Tied up it's beak...oh my god!

This has got to be in Classics.

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usualsuspect · 23/04/2011 13:14
Grin
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DegreesCelcius · 23/04/2011 13:22

Thought it was going to be a joke!
"Have you heard the one about the woman and a penguin on a train?"

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Butterbur · 23/04/2011 13:24

Knowledgeable guard!

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LaurieFairyCake · 23/04/2011 13:27

That is hilarious and so eccentrically British

"Right yes Vera, I'll just get the wee chook and wrap it in my scarf and take it to the zoo and we'll have a cuppa afterwards"

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MadameOvary · 23/04/2011 13:28

It's definitely possible. I know a woman who recieved an Asbo for encouraging and feeding seagulls...

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TheDreadPirateRabbits · 23/04/2011 13:29

I just sniggered coffee out of my nose Grin

And now I've got the Monty Python roll call of sea bird treats running through my head (stormy petrel on a stick anyone?)

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blinks · 23/04/2011 13:33

like a gary larson cartoon

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EgguStudent · 23/04/2011 15:10

That is absolutely bloody brilliant [bugrin]

I'm weeping!

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