British auto rescue service has published its top ten most unusual callouts. Sure beats the empty petrol tank that's the most reason for AA callouts here.
1. A patrol called out to a car that wouldn’t start discovered the culprits; a family of rats living in the fuse box, who had chewed through all the wires.
2. One RAC member was mystified as to why they couldn’t unlock their car. On arrival, the patrol had to break it gently that they had the wrong car.
3. One member was trying to protect rather more than his car - he had broken down at the side of the road with over £80,000 in cash in his boot.
4. A patrol had to make it snappy when a van taking an alligator to a zoo broke down. Another speedy patrol helped restart a transporter taking a cheetah to a zoo before it was dinner time.
5. A hapless groom nearly didn’t marry his bride when he locked the wedding rings in his car - thankfully the RAC patrol saved the day just moments before the ceremony.
6. A £30,000 violin had to be rescued by a RAC patrol from a jammed seatbelt so that it’s musical maestro owner could get to a concert in time.
7. A kitten being driven to his new home panicked on arrival and escaped into the dashboard of the vehicle. An RAC patrol undertook the rescue, dismantling the entire dashboard, and recovering the kitten safely. Similar callouts have involved snakes, mice and hamsters.
8. On opening the back of a broken down van, a patrol was startled by 17 pairs of eyes staring back at him belonging to a cast of falcons.
9. One RAC patrol rescued a referee on his way to a crucial league football match, just hours before the game was due to kick off.
10. An RAC patrol rescued a police car, stuck up to its windows in mud having chased a runaway criminal across a ploughed field.
