A fox slipped into the U.K. Parliament and pooped on the floor.
The cunning creature was caught on camera evading security and roaming around the Portcullis House building in central London on Thursday.
Beautiful fox popped into Parliament today. pic.twitter.com/C5QsOp5z8c
— Karl Turner MP (@KarlTurnerMP) February 6, 2020
Team Lopez: just leaving Westminster office for the night & see a fox climbing escalator into Portcullis House! We have seen some strange things in Parliament since 2017, but this tops it! The Sun are live tweeting the police pursuit @kateferguson4 Let’s hope he is rescued safely
— Julia Lopez MP (@JuliaLopezMP) February 6, 2020
It ran through the lobby and rode an escalator to where lawmakers’ offices are located, Sky News reported. It then deposited this memento outside the office of Labour member of Parliament Kerry McCarthy:
So apparently there was a fox running around in Portcullis House atrium about half an hour ago, and now I’ve just found this outside my office (2 floors up!) #Foxontherun pic.twitter.com/4ZgY112cUo
— Kerry McCarthy (@KerryMP) February 6, 2020
“So apparently there was a fox running around in Portcullis House atrium about half an hour ago, and now I’ve just found this outside my office (2 floors up!)” McCarthy captioned the snap.
Footage that The Sun newspaper’s Westminster correspondent Kate Ferguson later shared on Twitter showed police removing the animal from the building inside a crate, and then releasing it onto a sidewalk:
The fox has been taken out of Parliament. Excellent work! pic.twitter.com/o8L7vQKopn
— Kate Ferguson (@kateferguson4) February 6, 2020
The animal’s adventures inevitably captured the attention of people on social media, with some referencing the United Kingdom’s ban on fox hunting:
All those MPs who think that Fox hunting is a sport, and not a single one of them tried to take the fox on one on one. It's like they only feel it's a sport when they have a shotgun and a pack of dogs doing the work.
— Steve Analyst (@EmporersNewC) February 7, 2020
If the ritual removal of a fox from parliament isn't another one of those zanily arcane parliamentary procedures, like ritually slamming a door in some liveried person's face to open their session, I don't want to know. https://t.co/sYgNSF9hEz
— Anjali Dayal (@akd2003) February 6, 2020
If the fox is willing to eat the mice and rats in Parliament that might actually be a useful development. https://t.co/gOWUZJoKbt
— Alison Thewliss (@alisonthewliss) February 6, 2020
I have an image of a man sitting alone in his dusty mansion, the curtains drawn, the lights out. The phone rings, he picks up, he listens.
— Tim Goodwin (@timothygoodwin) February 7, 2020
Then speaks: “I’m retired.”
We hear a voice down the line: “But there’s a fox! In Parliament!”
He pauses. Then reaches for his kimono... https://t.co/mm7XcsmZZX
This metaphor is perfect on is own. A fox running around in Parliament House https://t.co/S7PR6LUsyo
— Sally McManus (@sallymcmanus) February 7, 2020
Although the fox is out of Parliament, I understand a weasel can still be found at 10 Downing Street https://t.co/KEHNLqjOUx
— Matt Moore (@MattMooreJourno) February 6, 2020
i say let the fox in parliament rule as our new king
— Joe (@steamedhamms) February 7, 2020
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