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Tiny foal rescued after getting trapped under car

A TINY New Forest foal was rescued by firefighters after it became jammed under a car.

Resident Veronica Harrison raised the alarm and took a mobile telephone photograph of the stricken animal under the parked Ford Ka at Thorney Hill.

"I think it must have just fallen asleep and rolled under there. Typical foal," she said.

"It was absolutely stuck underneath there. It was quite sensible about the whole thing. Had he panicked he could have pierced his stomach. But he didn't struggle or anything.

"I was with him about an hour."

Firefighters from Burley and head agister Jonathan Gerrelli attended the incident in Burley Road.

Fire station watch manager Graham Tucker said the foal would not have got out without help.

"We eased him out," he said.

"But we were ready to lift the car off him."

The foal suffered grazes around its eyes but was otherwise uninjured.

Its distraught mother had run off when the firefighters turned up, but a posse of men later rounded her up with a couple of other ponies and reunited her with the foal.

"It was a happy conclusion," said Mr Tucker.

2:12pm Saturday 10th May 2008

   

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Posted by: wontee, soton on 2:28pm Sat 10 May 08
Good job it wasn't a gigantic foal !
Posted by: paul b on 2:56pm Sat 10 May 08
So many unanswered questions in this story
Posted by: A Creature Void of Form on 3:42pm Sat 10 May 08
paul b wrote:
So many unanswered questions in this story
Really?

Foal gets trapped under car.

Foal gets freed.

Paul B moans about it.

That's how these things usually work.
Posted by: Edwin Burger, Bell-End on 7:07pm Sat 10 May 08
would have looked better on my barbeque
Posted by: jkj, abc on 12:09am Sun 11 May 08
Edwin Burger wrote:
would have looked better on my barbeque
Do u eat **** ?
Posted by: jkj, abc on 12:18am Sun 11 May 08
Edwin Burger wrote:
would have looked better on my barbeque
Do u eat A S S ?
Posted by: King Mush, Woolston on 1:28am Tue 13 May 08
A Creature Void of Form wrote:
paul b wrote: So many unanswered questions in this story
Really? Foal gets trapped under car. Foal gets freed. Paul B moans about it. That's how these things usually work.
lol

What if:

Paul B gets trapped under car.

I'll leave everything to the imagination.

;o)
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