From what I can gather, being a cop mostly consists of giving fines to people who can’t afford to pay them and yelling at you for drinking tinnies on the street, while experiencing such perks as abusing your position of authority, being paid to do the cringiest viral dance videos in the history of the internet, and, apparently, finding super adorable animals in the pursuit of justice.
Like these Brisbane cops managed to do: getting their grubby mitts on a beautiful and disturbingly wise-looking Koala joey while arresting a 50-year-old woman in Wishart in the city’s south.
Pictured: the face of an animal that has seen some shit.
Police stopped the woman on Newnham Road, arrested her for “outstanding matters”, and asked if she had anything to declare before they hauled her off back to the cop shop. It turns out she did, in the form of a very young koala hiding out in her backpack. She told police she’d found him the night before and was looking after him.
The RSPCA were called and determined him to be about six months old and bit dehydrated, but on the whole healthy:
“He’s been on fluids but is doing well and will shortly be going out to a carer. He weighs 1.5 kg and we’ve called him Alfred.”
He’s definitely adorable but I swear if you look at this photo long enough it looks like a very creepy man in a koala costume (that might just be me though):
The RSPCA are urging people not to handle any koalas they find (as they might have internal injuries) and to instead give them a call on 1300 ANIMAL.
We wish Alfred the best of luck in his new life.
Source and photos: QPS Media.
