Hotrod Hamster

[Sharon]

A hamster was found driving in a toy dragster racing car on the seafront. The rodent startled day-trippers on the seafront at Cleveleys, near Blackpool. He was handed in to police and is now at a Fylde animal sanctuary where he has been nicknamed Speedy.

PC Quentin Allen told the Blackpool Evening Gazette there was amazement when the hamster was handed in at Cleveleys police station. The police log records: "A member of the public has handed in a hamster in a hot rod racing car."

PC Allen told the paper: "It was a proper toy racing car with a hamster wheel in the middle and as the hamster runs it operates the car.

"You can just imagine a nice, sunny day on Cleveleys Prom, eating your chips and then this thing goes whizzing past.

"It was quite amusing in here because whenever we tried to put Speedy down on the front desk he kept whizzing off trying to escape."

Speedy was handed over to the Fylde branch of the RSPCA in Fleetwood.He was then moved to the "high-security" Charnwood House Boarding Kennels in Marton.

Nancy Williams, from Charnwood House told the paper: "We think somebody must have been playing with him outside and they have forgotten about him and he has just taken off."

 

[migtig]

This is hillarious!!!

 

[Sharon]

Speedy the racing hamster gets new home - but without car

A hamster which was found driving a toy racing car on a Lancashire seafront has been given a new home. Speedy has left the Fylde Animal Sanctuary to live with Rachel Reader in Fleetwood. He was handed into police by startled day-trippers who spotted him in a toy dragster on the seafront at Cleveleys, near Blackpool.

The Blackpool Evening Gazette says he'll be moving without his toy car because the RSPCA has confiscated it. Mrs Reader said: "We saw the story in the paper and on television, and I felt sorry for Speedy. We had a spare hamster cage and I thought if he needs a home he can come here."

It is thought Speedy's previous owner had been playing with him in the car on the seafront and had left forgetting about him.

Margaret Bysterbosch, secretary of Fylde RSPCA, was concerned about the sale of the cars, because the little creatures are effectively trapped inside the wheel until someone lets them out. "I think they are dangerous and can be very cruel if they are misused," she said.
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Poor Speedy, they've taken away his wheels.