# Nottinghamshire Police find Penguin walking on road **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411 "2020-08-18T14:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/1 "2020-08-18T14:05:33Z")
[https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/uk/penguin-nottinghamshire-police-scli-intl-gbr/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/uk/penguin-nottinghamshire-police-scli-intl-gbr/index.html) > [@](#): > > Police in central [England](https://cnn.com/travel/article/uk-covid-19-staycation-nightmare/index.html) were surprised to find a [penguin](https://cnn.com/2016/09/22/americas/peru-lost-penguin-trnd/index.html) waddling along a village street on Sunday morning. > > Officers patrolling in Strelley, Nottinghamshire, spotted the small bird “marching” in the middle of the road, according to a police statement sent to CNN Monday. > > Police “quickly moved to question him on what he was doing walking in the middle of a road,” according to the release, before returning the Humboldt penguin to his home on a farm around a mile away. > > “We were very surprised when we came across a penguin on our shift,” said Police Constable Gareth Philp of Nottinghamshire Police. > “We see some very interesting things while out on patrol, but a penguin walking up the middle of the road has to be one of the more bizarre findings we have come across.” > > Philp said he and his colleagues nicknamed the penguin Po-Po. > > “He posed for some pictures with us and he was very friendly with our officers while we made contact with his owner,” said Philp. > > Inspector Gordon Fenwick of Nottinghamshire Police said: “Our officers are trained to deal with a variety of incidents with complex demands and it is great that we quickly reunited the penguin with their owner.” They should have left him on top of the telly. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/2 "2020-08-18T14:10:51Z")
A penguin found in the middle of the road is lucky not to be the answer to the riddle, “What’s black and white and red all over?” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/3 "2020-08-18T14:17:32Z")
Monty Python Penguin on the Telly sketch https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x5wppq0 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/4 "2020-08-18T14:49:56Z")
And where the hell was Batman while this was all going down? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/5 "2020-08-18T15:12:49Z")
He only operates in Britain on special occasions. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/6 "2020-08-18T15:16:52Z")
The following day the Inspector was furious to see his Constable still driving around with the penguin in the back seat. “I thought I told you to take him to the farm!” he shouted. “I did” replies the Constable, “Today I’m taking him to the movies!”. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/7 "2020-08-18T16:51:29Z")
People at BBC programming will be upset that their executive is not coming to work! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/8 "2020-08-18T18:22:07Z")
It’s good this happened in England where the local authorities felt no need to promptly “neutralize the threat” from this bird of color. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/9 "2020-08-18T18:23:33Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > The following day the Inspector was furious to see his Constable still driving around with the penguin in the back seat. “I thought I told you to take him to the farm!” he shouted. “I did” replies the Constable, “Today I’m taking him to the movies!”. But the Constable wasn’t in trouble, because he successfully appealed to the Inspector’s boss, the Sheriff of Nottingham. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/10 "2020-08-18T23:57:45Z")
There’s a penguin on the road His brain is squirmin’ like a toad Take an Arctic holiday Let your penguins play If you give this bird a ride, some fish are gonna die Penguin on the road ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/11 "2020-08-19T00:56:55Z")
Update: Nottingham authorities said a walrus named Chumley has contacted them inquiring about the whereabouts of his friend. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/12 "2020-08-19T02:00:27Z")
This happened in Japan recently, too. > **[Watch Penguin Highway | Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Highway-Kana-Kita/dp/B07TKYCL8R)** > > Budding genius Aoyama is only in the 4th grade, but already lives his life like a scientist. When penguins start appearing in his sleepy suburb, hundreds of miles from the sea, Aoyama vows to solve the mystery. When he discovers that the arrival of... ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/13 "2020-08-19T04:33:56Z")
Burma! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/14 "2020-08-19T11:54:59Z")
…but it turned out that the nattily-dressed penguin was from Hoboken all along. “Hoboken!!! I’;m dyin’!” ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/15 "2020-08-19T13:52:55Z")
Is anyone else wondering why they questioned the penguin? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/16 "2020-08-19T14:35:47Z")
Actually, I’m wondering why there is a penguin farm in Nottinghamshire, and whether they are raising them for the meat or the eggs. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/17 "2020-08-19T15:26:24Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Chumley AKA [Cholmondeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cholmondeley,_7th_Marquess_of_Cholmondeley). ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/18 "2020-08-20T03:39:03Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > If you give this bird a ride, some fish are gonna die > Penguin on the road No walruses, please. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/19 "2020-08-20T03:55:21Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > whether they are raising them for the meat or the eggs. As antennas ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411/20 "2020-08-20T13:02:54Z")
There’s an awesome Monty Python sketch with them shooting a movie on a beach being attacked by a giant 50 foot penguin. Sadly YouTube search was no help finding it. Someone else may have better luck than I. Good thing that’s not the penguin the constables encountered. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nottinghamshire-police-find-penguin-walking-on-road/918411.md?page=2)