Police make rescue blunder

A lot of us like having some personal belongings in our car, but one news report shows that occasionally it can cause trouble you would have never predicted.

It’s important not to put stuff in a vehicle which blocks the back window – or a driver’s view of the road from any direction for that matter.

But, surely a cuddly toy on the back seat won’t cause any harm? Think again.

In Nottinghamshire an 80-year-old man returned to his car to find the rear window smashed, and a note from the police.

Earlier, a passer-by had phoned the emergency services, worried for the health of a dog on the back seat of the vehicle. It was a sunny day and the animal didn’t appear to be moving.

Well, you guessed it, it was just a cuddly toy dog, but the passer-by didn’t realise and neither did the police when they arrived on the scene.

It was only upon smashing the window to rescue the poor animal that they realised there had been no emergency in the first place.

The police have agreed to pay for the damage caused to the man’s vehicle, and the driver doesn’t hold anything against the force.

“I guess they felt like idiots,” he stated.

"He'd [the cuddly toy] been living quite happily on the car's back seat. But I've decided he will be safer sleeping on a chair in my kitchen."

So lesson learnt – if you want to have a toy animal on your back seat, make sure it’s really unrealistic.

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