Whitley Bay lizard rescued after 4,500-mile suitcase stowaway

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Lizard rescued after travelling 4,500 miles from Florida to Whitley Bay in suitcase

A lizard has been rescued after stowing away in a suitcase and travelling 4,500 miles from Florida to Whitley Bay.

Ms Bond, 54, said she feared her mother Margaret Crossland was seeing things when she said she could see a lizard on her bedroom door.Ms Bond was unpacking after a holiday to Orlando when her mother spotted the animal, shouting: "There is a lizard on my bedroom door." "It is quite remarkable that the lizard managed to travel all that way unharmed - but I do feel sorry for him, after enjoying such nice warm weather he ended up in Whitley Bay in winter."

 

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Everyone should be rescued from Whitley Bay to be fair.

Had a scorpion travelling back with me from Morocco. Poor thing was dead on arrival.

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