Yeah... you read that headline right... no need to clean your glasses. Here's the story:
Twenty-one penguins were rescued on a hot east Texas highway on Tuesday after a truck carrying the wildlife to a temporary home south of Houston overturned, said a state trooper.Four penguins and some exotic fish were killed in the accident, including three penguins that were hit by passing motorists, said Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Richard Buchanan. "The rest of the penguins kind of stayed together in the ditch."...The wildlife was being transported to Texas from the Indianapolis Zoo while the zoo’s ocean exhibit is being remodeled, said Jerri Hamacheck of Moody Gardens.The trooper said it was the oddest traffic accident he had ever handled.
And it's probably the oddest thing that those penguins have ever experienced too. All brown, hot, sunny... not a speck of snow anywhere. All dressed up and nowhere to go besides. There was also an octopus on board which was uninjured, despite the lack of... well... an ocean.
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