Goo's story reminds me of a similar looney tunes moment.
Years ago when I was a paper boy (yeah, that many years ago), I surprised a squirrel helping itself to chips from a discarded packet in a pedestrian precinct by the river. It panicked and ran towards the river. Realising there was no escape that way except along a narrow pipe over the river, it ran out along the pipe.
About half way over, it began to realise that the pipe was far too narrow to balance on, and lost its balance. It fell off, but grabbed at the pipe and made a marvellous recovery. It hauled itself up under the pipe and for a moment looked like making it across the river hanging underneath the pipe by its claws. But that failed too and it fell off into the water.
It swam quite strongly towards the far bank, but couldn't climb out up the vertical brick sides. The last I saw of it, it was swimming enthusiastically against the current and thus remaining quite stationary.
It could have just run away up a tree, but instead chose the best slapstick sequence it could think of. A pity it was six in the morning and there was no-one there to see it but me.
