It’s not every day a herd (well, two) of water buffalo run free down the streets of inner Sydney! The two buffaloes were in town filming an upcoming Samsung TVC when they broke free from their handlers and galloped all the way down King Street in Newtown to Sydney Uni:
UnderCurrent’s spies say the ad is only intended for the Korean market, though it would be great to see some A-Roll of this mini-stampede at the launch of the Galaxy S5 tomorrow in Sydney!
Suddenly a wild buffalo appears RT @a_felman: 2 #Bulls literally just ran down #kingSt #newtown #filming? pic.twitter.com/lO50A3wuxs
— BuzzFeed Australia (@BuzzFeedOz) March 25, 2014
All this talk of Buffalo escaping and roaming free in the streets of Sydney reminds UnderCurrent of one particular late 90s novelty song…
UPDATE: Classic stuff from our heroes at the Newtown fire station:
#NewtownBuffulo status report. All clear. Thanks to the Newtown Fire Service. / @mayorofnewtown pic.twitter.com/GcC4eCCOfK
— Sir Lisa Railey (@railey180) March 30, 2014