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A rotting animal leg that has sat atop a bus stop for "a few months" has raised hackles in Clapham Junction.

The severed limb - that of a goat according to one report - was first spotted on the clear-roofed bus stop by Riz Wasti, who tweeted at Wandsworth Council: "Seeing this leg of lamb at bus stop Y near Clapham/Northcote Road for few months.

"Prob well done by now?!"

Wandsworth referred the matter to Transport for London (TfL), calling it "not a very nice sight" and asking them to remove it.

@RizWasti Not a very nice sight! @TfL please can you remove this from the roof of your bus shelter o/s 79 St. John's Road, SW11 1QZ — Wandsworth Council (@wandbc) April 13, 2015

The Wandsworth Guardian reports the aroma has got one commuter's goat, with graphic designer Suzanne Perkins asking the paper: "Why has it been there so long? What is going on with general street cleaning?

"It’s just awful. It is weird and bizarre. I think it's funny in a sense of it being a bizarre object but really quite serious when you think what is happening in the urban environment?"

TfL told the Standard it was taking action to remove the leg today - nearly three weeks after the council asked it to do so.

It is not known how the leg came to be on top of the shelter.