A Beenleigh man has gone viral after he was filmed saving and scolding a koala that was holding up traffic on Beaudesert-Beenleigh Road.
The man, which 7News has reported as 82-year-old Terry, rescued the “confused” koala that was walking across the busy road.
In the footage (shown below) Terry can be seen picking the koala up, carrying it to the side of the road near bushland, and giving the animal a stern talking to.
“I was telling him not to scratch because I’m trying to help him,” Terry told 7News.
“And the little mongrel just kept scratching.
“But he was only protecting himself.”
Terry left the interaction with a few scratches, but the koala escaped unharmed.
“They’re only scratches,” he said.
“If you get hold of the bear quick enough and hold him the right way, they realise — especially when you start moving off the road — that they’re getting out of danger.”
