Summary Buffaloes look agitated, having escaped from a city park where an advertisement was being filmed.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two water buffaloes startled residents of an inner-Sydney suburb on Tuesday morning, as they pelted 2 km (1.2 miles) down a city street past disbelieving pedestrians, while car drivers scurried to get out of the way.
Eyewitnesses told local media the buffaloes looked agitated, having escaped from a city park where an advertisement was being filmed.
"I was just waiting for the bus and instead of a bus, two random buffalo ran past," Abril Felman, said by a student at the University of Sydney campus nearby.
Firefighters rounded up the animals and live-tweeted the operation, saying they used ladders and firefighting gear to corral the animals into a makeshift pen, until handlers from the film set took them away.
"We were all standing back, we were all going That s really random ," Felman said.
"It s a very diverse community that lives there," she added. "It s not strange to see people dressed up in costumes running around at night. It s a bit of a free-spirited bohemian culture."
