“Anyone who spots a wallaby in the wild has been urged not to approach them and to report it to UK Wallaby Sightings and iRecord, the spokesperson said.”
They’re a dangerous breed, mate.
SirRogerMoorhen on
Around 10 years ago I was invited to a ‘lock-in’ at a pub on Saturday night in a village which was 4 miles from where I lived at the time. I left the place at around 3AM, and decided to walk back in the hope that it’d sober me up. There was a small village between the pub and my home, and by the time I’d managed to stagger there I was feeling pretty worse for wear and wishing I’d just taken a taxi, so I laid down on the cemetery wall for a few minutes in the hope that the rest would do me some good.
This was a small village in the Lincolnshire wolds, and at that time of day it was absolutely lifeless. Nobody else was around, there weren’t any cars etc. I’d been laying on this wall for 5 or 10 minutes, by which time I heard a noise approaching me from the direction I’d come from. I struggled to sit up, but when I did I saw a wallaby hopping down the road. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I held out my hand, and it cautiously approached. I’d say it got within 3-4ft of me, before it got scared and decided to continue on its path and disappeared into the darkness.
I remember thinking to myself ‘Bloody hell, this is bad. I’ve drunk so much I’m bloody hallucinating’. I then called a mate I’d been drinking with earlier that night to tell him that I was seeing things, which as you can imagine was met with a barrage of mickey-taking.
Well, on the Monday morning I learned that a nearby wildlife park (around 1.5 miles from my sighting) had lost one of their wallabies over the weekend, which was an incredible relief to me, but no doubt terribly frustrating to its owners.
toomanyyorkies on
From the article
> While the species is native to Australia and other islands in the Pacific, the RSPCA said they were considered “to be established in the wild in Britain”.
> A spokesperson for the charity said this was most likely due to wallabies escaping from captivity.
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“Anyone who spots a wallaby in the wild has been urged not to approach them and to report it to UK Wallaby Sightings and iRecord, the spokesperson said.”
They’re a dangerous breed, mate.
Around 10 years ago I was invited to a ‘lock-in’ at a pub on Saturday night in a village which was 4 miles from where I lived at the time. I left the place at around 3AM, and decided to walk back in the hope that it’d sober me up. There was a small village between the pub and my home, and by the time I’d managed to stagger there I was feeling pretty worse for wear and wishing I’d just taken a taxi, so I laid down on the cemetery wall for a few minutes in the hope that the rest would do me some good.
This was a small village in the Lincolnshire wolds, and at that time of day it was absolutely lifeless. Nobody else was around, there weren’t any cars etc. I’d been laying on this wall for 5 or 10 minutes, by which time I heard a noise approaching me from the direction I’d come from. I struggled to sit up, but when I did I saw a wallaby hopping down the road. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I held out my hand, and it cautiously approached. I’d say it got within 3-4ft of me, before it got scared and decided to continue on its path and disappeared into the darkness.
I remember thinking to myself ‘Bloody hell, this is bad. I’ve drunk so much I’m bloody hallucinating’. I then called a mate I’d been drinking with earlier that night to tell him that I was seeing things, which as you can imagine was met with a barrage of mickey-taking.
Well, on the Monday morning I learned that a nearby wildlife park (around 1.5 miles from my sighting) had lost one of their wallabies over the weekend, which was an incredible relief to me, but no doubt terribly frustrating to its owners.
From the article
> While the species is native to Australia and other islands in the Pacific, the RSPCA said they were considered “to be established in the wild in Britain”.
> A spokesperson for the charity said this was most likely due to wallabies escaping from captivity.
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