Animal advocates slammed Samsung for a pair of water buffaloes that escaped the set of a commercial in Sydney on Tuesday, saying that the company shouldn't have even used the animals in the first place.

The buffaloes escaped the set of an ad in a park, and went careening down a city street for about a mile.

"I was just waiting for the bus and instead of a bus, two random buffalo ran past," Abril Felman, a student at the University of Sydney campus nearby, told Reuters.

Firefighters quickly rounded up the animals, using ladders and other equipment to guide the animals into a makeshift pen. They even tweeted about the bizarre scene: