Two naughty penguins with a penchant for sashimi have waddled their way into a bit of trouble with the law. Over the weekend, New Zealand police were called to a sushi bar in Wellington to remove a pair of penguins looking to tuck into some late-night djej.
Wellington District Police detailed the incident in a Facebook post, so it goes, the two birds found refuge underneath Sushi Bi near Wellington Station early yesterday morning. Police were contacted and the animals were removed from under a fridge and “temporarily detained” before they were released into Wellington Harbour.
“Constable Zhu responded and, after sensing something fishy, established that the penguins were nesting underneath a food truck near the station.
“DOC and Wellington Zoo were contacted, and with some inter-agency cooperation the adventurous pair were released back into Wellington Harbour.”
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The police soon came to the realisation that this wasn’t the first dealing they had with one of the suspect birds. Days prior to sushi-gate police received a call notifying them that one of the penguins —presumably the ringleader— was trotting down the road in Featherstone street. They rescued the penguin and returned him to the water.
As we all know, penguins are not snitches. The lawless bird ignored their first run-in with authorities and attempted to execute a heist on a sushi store. These are not the mild, innocuous blue penguins the media want you to think they are, these penguins are the anarchist spirit embodied.
The Department of Conservation has stated that they will be monitoring the site again, on the chance that the penguins decide to rebel once again.
In other bird-related news, because there’s been a lot of that this month, an “exotic” bird was rescued from a highway in the UK. However, local vets determined that the bird was not exotic at all, but rather a seagull that had gotten itself mixed up in turmeric.
If that doesn’t satiate your appetite for avian-related updates, check out this footage that has emerged of a cockatoo in South Africa that has trained itself to bark like a guard dog.
Or perhaps you’d rather indulge in the story of a roaringly drunk man that saved the life of an injured goldfinch by ordering the wee bird an Uber to a wildlife sanctuary.
