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| Rose of York | Monday, 27. October 2008, 16:43 |
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Two fire engines and eight firefighters from Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service turned out after the disappearance at midnight on June 8, of a six week old kitten. It was found - stuck down a drain. First they used a vibrascope camera, normally used for locating people trapped in earthquakes, to pinpoint the wee kitten's location, then they attached a sock to the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner and the kitten was gently sucked out of the pipe at about 2am.. The incident came just a few hours after the mother cat crawled under some floorboards and gave birth to a litter of four. The householder heard whining coming from beneath the dishwasher. Four kittens had been born, she could only find three. She said "We tried various ways to get it out and I could almost get my arm down the hole but the kitten had become trapped too far down and round the bend. "The fire brigade suggested tearing out the units and ripping up the floorboards. "I said to them there must be an easier way to get the kitten out than destroying my kitchen so we decided to get the Hoover out and see if we could suck it out the hole. We put a sock over the end of the Hoover, stuck it down the hole and out it popped." The morals of this story are: 1 If you can afford a dishwasher you can afford to fix the hole in the floor. 2 If you haven't gor around to fixing the floor, keep an eye on the cat. 3 When you're in a hole, shout for a woman, not a fireman. Women are good at improvising, and their methods are cheap. 4 If your wife, husband or mother in law is stuck down a hole, dial 999, tell them the cat's gone missing, you'll get two fire engines and eight firemen. Tell the truth, you might be told there is nobody available until a week on Monday.  The story is on video, click this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7445896.stm[redit][/redit] |
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