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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

 

 

Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week.

 

The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most mornings - he then jumps off at the next stop 400m down the road, near a fish and chip shop. The cat was nicknamed Macavity after the mystery cat in T.S Elliot's poem. He gets on the bus in front of a row of 1950s semi-detached houses and jumps off at a row of shops down the road which include a fish and chip shop.

 

Driver Bill Khunkhun, 49, who first saw the cat jumping from the bus in January, said: "It is really odd, the first time I saw the cat jumping off the bus with a group of passengers. I hadn't seen it get on which was a bit confusing.

 

"The next day I pulled up on Churchill Road to let a couple of passengers on. As soon as I opened the doors the cat ran towards the bus, jumped on and ran under one of the seats, I don't think any of the passengers noticed.

 

"Because I had seen it jump off the day before I carried on driving and sure enough when I stopped just down the road he jumped off - I don't know why he would catch the bus but he seems to like it. I told some of the other drivers on this route and they have seen him too."

 

Since January, when the cat first caught the bus he has done it two or three times a week and always gets on and off at the same stops.

 

Passenger, Paul Brennan, 19, who catches the 331 to work, said: "I first noticed the cat a few weeks ago. At first I thought it had been accompanied by its owner but after the first stop it became quite clear he was on his own.

 

"He sat at the front of the bus, waited patiently for the next stop and then got off. It was was quite strange at first but now it just seems normal. I suppose he is the perfect passenger really - he sits quietly, minds his own business and then gets off."

 

Lazy git! :lol:

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Sweet lord, have you seen some of the reader comments?

 

He probably gets on to avoid being knocked over crossing the road.

 

- Lorrie, Derby, UK

 

What a lovely story, such a refreshing change from the rest of the doom and gloom.

 

- Melanie Jane Williams, Melbourne, Australia

 

Careful the Police will be round, in Blairs Britain nothing is free.

 

- Donald Dehaviland, Fleet, Hampshire, England

 

Great story, but no doubt it won't be long before the Jobsworth Brigade ban Macavity from the bus for Health and Safety reasons.

 

- Cassie, UK

 

Daily Mail-tastic!

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Sweet lord, have you seen some of the reader comments?

 

He probably gets on to avoid being knocked over crossing the road.

 

- Lorrie, Derby, UK

 

What a lovely story, such a refreshing change from the rest of the doom and gloom.

 

- Melanie Jane Williams, Melbourne, Australia

 

Careful the Police will be round, in Blairs Britain nothing is free.

 

- Donald Dehaviland, Fleet, Hampshire, England

 

Great story, but no doubt it won't be long before the Jobsworth Brigade ban Macavity from the bus for Health and Safety reasons.

 

- Cassie, UK

 

Daily Mail-tastic!

 

It won't be too long until some asylum seeker's cat takes Macavity's seat. :lol:

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Sweet lord, have you seen some of the reader comments?

 

He probably gets on to avoid being knocked over crossing the road.

 

- Lorrie, Derby, UK

 

What a lovely story, such a refreshing change from the rest of the doom and gloom.

 

- Melanie Jane Williams, Melbourne, Australia

 

Careful the Police will be round, in Blairs Britain nothing is free.

 

- Donald Dehaviland, Fleet, Hampshire, England

 

Great story, but no doubt it won't be long before the Jobsworth Brigade ban Macavity from the bus for Health and Safety reasons.

 

- Cassie, UK

 

Daily Mail-tastic!

As Alan Partridge would say - This country.

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Further confirmation that cats are lazy as fuck. You'd never get a dog doing that :lol:

FYP :D

 

Fair enough :D

 

Mah girls are lovin' this sunshine mind! Take after their mother :)

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Further confirmation that cats are lazy as fuck. You'd never get a dog doing that :lol:

FYP :D

 

Fair enough :)

 

Mah girls are lovin' this sunshine mind! Take after their mother :(

they're wearing revealing tops and incessantly and unreasonably bitching about their jobs?

 

 

SAFETY :D

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Further confirmation that cats are lazy as fuck. You'd never get a dog doing that :lol:

FYP :)

 

Fair enough :(

 

Mah girls are lovin' this sunshine mind! Take after their mother :rolleyes:

they're wearing revealing tops and incessantly and unreasonably bitching about their jobs?

 

 

SAFETY :D

 

Nope, they're completely nekked and lying on the windowsill

 

:D

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I always feel sorry (well, sort of) for insects who end up on international flights and the like. Must be a bit of a culture shock for a Mallorcan fly to accidentally end up in Newcastle.

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I always feel sorry (well, sort of) for insects who end up on international flights and the like. Must be a bit of a culture shock for a Mallorcan fly to accidentally end up in Newcastle.

I like those Tsetseflies who fly in to Frankfurt and sting some lousy southeners. Ha.

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