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Friday, April 20, 2012
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.
Photo © Jess1820 via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
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.
Photo © Jess1820 via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: animal, back window, car, cuddly toy, dog, driver, Nottinghamshire, police, rear window, road, vehicle
Friday, August 12, 2011
Britain’s top ten most endangered animals
When you think of endangered species you might think of the panda, the orangutan, rhinos, dolphins, and a whole bunch of other animals that most people in the UK have probably never seen in the wild.
However, Britain has its own list of endangered animals, and some of the creatures on that list may surprise you.
Sadly, many people today are out of touch with nature, and so a lot of the animals in the top ten most endangered list may draw a blank with you – I’ll admit to not recognising some of the names myself.
At number one is the red-necked phalarope (a little wading bird). Number two is the black-tailed godwit (a larger wading bird). Number three is the Scottish wildcat, four is the capercaillie (a type of grouse), five is the cuckoo, six is the red squirrel, seven is the turtle dove, eight is the natterjack toad, at nine the brown hare, and finally at ten comes potentially the most recognisable of all of these animals, the hedgehog.
Reportedly the number of hedgehogs in the UK is diminishing due to people not taking care when mowing or strimming their garden. Another factors is the number of roads which now cut across countryside.
It would be sad to lose our British hedgehogs, just as it would be sad to lose any of these animals when something can be done about it.
So, let’s all be careful when neatening up the garden, and if there are no cars behind you and you can stop safely, let that little spiky shape get across the road safe and sound.
However, Britain has its own list of endangered animals, and some of the creatures on that list may surprise you.
Sadly, many people today are out of touch with nature, and so a lot of the animals in the top ten most endangered list may draw a blank with you – I’ll admit to not recognising some of the names myself.
At number one is the red-necked phalarope (a little wading bird). Number two is the black-tailed godwit (a larger wading bird). Number three is the Scottish wildcat, four is the capercaillie (a type of grouse), five is the cuckoo, six is the red squirrel, seven is the turtle dove, eight is the natterjack toad, at nine the brown hare, and finally at ten comes potentially the most recognisable of all of these animals, the hedgehog.
Reportedly the number of hedgehogs in the UK is diminishing due to people not taking care when mowing or strimming their garden. Another factors is the number of roads which now cut across countryside.
It would be sad to lose our British hedgehogs, just as it would be sad to lose any of these animals when something can be done about it.
So, let’s all be careful when neatening up the garden, and if there are no cars behind you and you can stop safely, let that little spiky shape get across the road safe and sound.
Photo © machernucha via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: animal, Britain, endangered, hedgehog, road, species