COSMOPOLIS, Washington – What do you call a sea lion in the middle of the road?

The Cosmopolis Police Department in Washington state responded to an odd call this week that admittedly wasn't even on their bingo card this year.

A wayward sea lion ventured slightly off the beaten path and found itself in the middle of Blue Slough Road, in Cosmopolis, Washington, a small town roughly 100 miles southwest of Seattle .

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Police said the sea lion likely ventured from a neighboring river to the street during the powerful atmospheric river that soaked the Northwest .

In proximity to where the sea lion was found blocking traffic lies the Chehalis River, a 115-mile-long river that empties into Gray's Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Oce

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