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

[VivaLeBeaver]

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.

[Beanie3]

Haha reminds me of the time I was walking round in TKMaxx when I saw a woman pushing a shopping trolley in which sat a parrot. Now I know they sell some odd things from time to time and this parrot was very realistic and most beautiful, I thought I’d take a closer look and enquire after its price. No sooner than I had wandered close to the trolley containing the stuffed parrot and lent in for a closer look, than the bloody thing went for me. Oh ees me pet luv, probly fawt yous gonna nick me bag, and off she tootled, without a second thought as if it was the most normal of things.

[Wauden]

Guard looks a bit closer at the bird and points out that its a guillimot not a penguin - very Monty Python!

[ODFOx]

On every 'what's your favourite MN thread' thread I say this one. So now I'm writing on it so it appears on my 'threads you're on' tab. I'm in awe of your turn of phrase OP. Well done

[orangenasturtium]

Many years ago my DF caught a flamingo in a supermarket car park that had escaped from the zoo next door.

[Positivevibesonlyplease]

My favourite thread ever. Brilliant. 10 years old!

[VivaLeBeaver]

Nice to see that people still remember this fondly. Still gives me the giggles.

[moanieleminx]

Crying!!!