I’m way behind on my newsreading, because of finishing up a month of travel (this week saw me in New York, Boston, and Albany.), so there’s a good chance I’ll be busy posting over the weekend.
However, I did see one story in my reading queue that I just had to pass along. Norwich Union has posted their 10 strangest claims for the past year:
- ‘A frozen squirrel fell out of a tree and crashed through the windscreen onto the passenger seat.’
- ‘The car was parked when a reindeer fell on the bonnet of my car.’
- ‘As I was driving round a bend, one of the doors opened and a frozen kebab flew out, hitting and damaging a passing car.’
- ‘A herd of cows licked my car and caused damage to the paintwork.’
- ‘A Zebra collided with my car when I was at a safari park.’
- ‘While I was waiting at traffic lights, a wasp went down my trouser leg, which made me hit the accelerator and prang the car in front.’
- ‘I couldn’t brake because a potato was lodged under the pedal.’
- ‘My parked car was bit by a bull which had escaped from an agricultural show.’
- ‘A cow jumped on my quad bike.’
- As I came over a hill, I hit a cow I the middle of the road, which then hit the bonnet and shattered the windscreen with its rear end.’
And, of course, if one forgets that “bonnet” means something else in British English than it does in American English (”hood”), the list becomes much more entertaining. The image of a cow knocking off one’s frilly cap is just oddly amusing to me.