The Koala Rescue Brisbane South organization in the eastern Australian city was grateful but kind of not really to a muncipal bus driver who grabbed a koala he spotted clinging to a light pole on his route and drove the marsupial to the rescue outfit’s shelter last weekend.

“The call came on Saturday night from the bus control support officer about a koala on a Brisbane CityGlider. Our hero bus driver had seen a koala dodge traffic on Wiles Street at Camp Hill before it scrambled up a light post on a traffic island. The quick-thinking driver tried to stop the koala from slipping down the metal post. Worried the koala might climb down and run into the path of a car, he used a light jacket to cover its head before moving it onto the bus. We don’t recommend handling koalas unless you’re trained. They have incredibly dangerous claws, can bite – and gripping them around their ribs can cause serious damage,” the koala snobs wrote in a Sunday Facebook post.

What the hell kind of rescue organization would sooner see the animals whose care is their mission fall off a lamppost and get hit by a car for want of being “trained” to do so? Why do they have to wag the fucking finger at this guy for doing the right thing when it’d be a reasonable assumption that he grew up in Australia and knew he was risking getting mauled but did it anyway? Lol. These buttholes even had the goddamned temerity to follow up with “Thanks for your support! If you’d like to contribute to the rescue of endangered koalas in Brisbane South, please consider a donation via the link below – all gifts over $2 are tax-deductible,” when they wouldn’t have even had the free marketing opportunity if not for this bus driver’s heroics that drew worldwide media attention.

Hell it even got coverage on American ABC, not just Australian ABC.

At least the rescue org didn’t say “He’s not koalaified to handle the animals.” Then they would deserve to be kicked nearly to death by kangaroos and then finished off by hungry crocodiles.