An undated handout framegrab shows a man (left) carrying a rare, wild platypus at a train station near Brisbane. Police launched a public appeal after the 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman, was spotted on a suburban train with a wild platypus swaddled in a towel. — Handout/Queensland Police Service/AFP
SYDNEY: Forget the Hollywood thriller Snakes On A Plane, an Australian man is in trouble for taking a platypus on a train.
Police launched a public appeal after the 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman, was spotted on a suburban train with a wild platypus swaddled in a towel.
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