Footage from the Metro shows a Metro worker unceremoniously kicking around 20 crabs off the train, leaving them to scuttle around on the platform.
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There is a happy ending for the creatures as they have been taken to the Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth, where they are understood to be settling into their new home.
But Mr Desborough, 24, who works at the MetroCentre in Gateshead, isn’t sure there will be many survivors.
“Whatever has happened, it was a odd sight to see”.
He said: “There was probably about 40 to 50 crabs crawling about, it was surreal”.
They’re not your average public transport customer – but these crabs didn’t seem to care what anyone thought as tens of them attempted to board a train.
A Metro spokesman added: “This wasn’t an everyday occurrence and our staff acted quickly to remove the crabs from the train and platform”.
Cleaners were faced with the unusual job of recapturing a cast of crabs which had escaped from a passenger’s plastic bag at a train station in Gateshead.
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Terry McKeon, from the aquarium, told the Chronicle that if the gang of four manage to survive, they’ll be put in the outside display.
