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Bacon saved

There are a few things air ambulance crews are asked to do on a regular basis, usually involving rescuing people and flying helicopters.

Being asked to lasso a truckload of pigs isn’t one of them.

When an accident involving a pig lorry set a bunch of oinkers loose on the southbound carriageway of the M6 near Rugby, the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance crew were asked to help round them up.

Air ambulance pilot Neil Parkinson said: "This was our weirdest job ever. I never thought I'd be part of a pig rodeo."

When bees attack

It's generally not a good idea to crash your car into anything, but if you are going to, don't crash it into a tree full of bees.

American teenager Jacqueline Cossairt did just that this month, crashing her SUV into a tree near Fort Wayne in Indiana.

A swarm of angry bees engulfed the car, stinging Cossairt, a bystander, a paramedic and seven firefighters who had arrived at the scene.

The 16-year-old was taken to hospital with broken legs and multiple bee stings.

Volunteer fire chief Kent Gilbert said: "Those bees were mad."

Offensive traffic warden

Traffic wardens offend people on a regular basis, that's a given. But sometimes they go the extra mile.

Brighton resident Laurie Ward was walking back to her car when her 21-month-old daughter Rose threw up, causing the pair to return to their car after the parking permit had expired.

Being the generous type, the warden let Ms Ward off on hearing her explanation, but told her: "Please make sure your daughter only vomits within pay and display time."

Ms Ward said: "It was an attempt at humour. This is not the way I expect to be treated by a public body."

Speeder helps policeman

One person highway patrol officers don’t expect to be helped by is the driver they're chasing.

Officer Frank Nowakowski was almost at the end of his shift in Great Falls, Montana, when a car passed him at 95mph. He set off in pursuit, reaching speeds of 120mph, but gave up the chase when one of his rear tyres exploded.

Nowakowski's car crashed through a barbed-wire fence and came to a halt in a field. Moments later the man he had been chasing was standing by the car.

The speeding motorist claimed to have been unaware the patrolman was trying to pull him over, and had turned his car around to help when he saw a large cloud of dust in his rear view mirror, thinking there had been an accident.

His reason for speeding? He was late for an appointment.

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