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Offline TonyKath

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UK Cops let Skippy hop it
« on: Sunday, 27 September, 2015 @ 19:52:33 »
A wallaby in Dursley height=307

Gloucester cops corner a wallaby, but in one bound it escapes!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-34373341

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Re: UK Cops let Skippy hop it
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, 27 September, 2015 @ 20:12:06 »
There's a few about, on the Staffs/Derbyshire border there's a wild colony.

Also others, e.g.

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Re: UK Cops let Skippy hop it
« Reply #2 on: Friday, 02 October, 2015 @ 20:02:40 »
And there's more...

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South American bird rhea found in front garden in Hampshire

A rhea has been rescued by police, fire crews and a specialist animal management team after a householder in Hampshire found the large bird in his garden.

Police were called at 12.30pm on Thursday when the man found the rhea in the front garden of his home in North Boarhunt.

It is not known how the bird, nicknamed Snowflake, came to be in the garden, and it has not yet been claimed
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/02/south-american-bird-rhea-found-in-hampshire-homes-front-garden

North Boarhunt... oh well, at least they didn't call it Chris.

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Re: UK Cops let Skippy hop it
« Reply #3 on: Saturday, 03 October, 2015 @ 19:38:55 »
And there's more...

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South American bird rhea found in front garden in Hampshire

A rhea has been rescued by police, fire crews and a specialist animal management team after a householder in Hampshire found the large bird in his garden.

Police were called at 12.30pm on Thursday when the man found the rhea in the front garden of his home in North Boarhunt.

It is not known how the bird, nicknamed Snowflake, came to be in the garden, and it has not yet been claimed
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/02/south-american-bird-rhea-found-in-hampshire-homes-front-garden

North Boarhunt... oh well, at least they didn't call it Chris.

It'd make a great Sunday lunch - but you'd need extra extra wide foil to wrap providing you had an oven big enough!   ;)

Tony