PLATYPUS ON A TRAIN

An Australian man is in trouble for taking a platypus on a train. The 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman, was spotted on a suburban Brisbane train with a wild platypus swaddled in a towel. Security camera footage showed the man in flip-flops strolling along a train platform while cradling the platypus – about the size of a kitten – under his arm. He and his female companion then wrapped it in a towel, and showed it to fellow commuters. When later questioned, the man said he had released it into the Caboolture River, but wildlife officials were searching for it to make sure it is okay. Under Queensland’s conservation laws, it is illegal to take a platypus from the wild. Platypuses are native to Australia’s freshwater rivers. The male platypus has venomous spurs.
* Well of course it does, because if it’s an animal that lives in Australia, one way or another it’s deadly.
* Look at me, I’m David Attenborough, like I know all about platypuses.
* Are they sure it wasn’t just a really ugly baby?
* You can’t take a platypus on a train. They prefer Uber.
* This guy gets nailed, yet the Crocodile Hunter used to walk around with kangaroos and Tasmanian devils in his pocket, and he was a national hero.