Would you expect to find an emu on a public footpath?
Coming face-to-face with an emu would be enough to ruffle most people's feathers.
So when a group of Lancashire students on a Duke of Edinburgh (DoE) expedition found a public footpath being patrolled by the notoriously narky birds, it was perhaps no surprise that the teenagers took flight.
“I was the only one in the group who went over the fence,” Abby explains. “At first, the emus were just moving their heads, but then they started scraping their feet across the floor and making stupid noises.
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