Fowl play as goose smashes way into taxi
Cabbie so stunned by animal intrusion he calls police
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It was a case of fowl play when a goose flew straight into a Nottingham taxi – smashing a window and landing on the back seat.
The cabbie, who is thought to have been in the vehicle at the time, was left so stunned he called police following the incident on Monday.
But officers confirmed no crime had been committed.
The bizarre incident was revealed by Nottinghamshire Police in a tweet soon after.
“When a colleague asked if a call had been received about a goose flying into a taxi over the radio, we had to see it to believe it,” officers with the force’s Radford Road team wrote.
“Goose was taken to the vets and unfortunately the taxi had to repair the damage.”
They joked the bird may have been trying to get to the Nottingham Goose Fair, the city’s centuries-old annual funfair which begins on Wednesday.
The fair’s name came from the thousands of geese that were driven from Lincolnshire to be sold in Nottingham.
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