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A motorist in North Yorkshire who was travelling with a sheep in his boot tells police he was taking it out for a meal



Police who stopped a motorist were stunned to discover a sheep in the boot (trunk) of the car – which the driver claimed he had taken to McDonald’s for a treat.

The incident occurred in North Yorkshire when officers from the local roads policing group stopped the driver of a Peugeot 206 on suspicion of driving with two bald tyres.

But when they looked more closely at the vehicle they notice an unusual passenger in the hatchback boot of the car, a fully grown sheep.

When questioned why he was travelling with the animal in a family hatchback the motorist explained that he had taken it to a nearby McDonald’s restaurant for a meal.

A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police said: “He told the officer, ‘some people take their dogs in their cars, I take my sheep’. He [the motorist] just wanted to go for a drive-through at McDonalds.”

The driver is thought to have been stopped shortly after a visit to the fast food restaurant at Leeming Bar services on the A1 in North Yorkshire.

Daily Telegraph

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

The incident occurred in North Yorkshire when officers from the local roads policing group stopped the driver of a Peugeot 206 on suspicion of driving with two bald tyres.

But when they looked more closely at the vehicle they notice an unusual passenger in the hatchback boot of the car, a fully grown sheep.

A. What, pray tell, is a "roads policing group"? Are they cops, or, not cops?

B. Someone saw the amount of tread on a moving tire attached to a moving car?

C: They saw the amount of tread on a traveling tire, but, failed to notice the sheep in the back seat until the car stopped?

I fear something is rotten in North Yorkshire...

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

A. What, pray tell, is a "roads policing group"? Are they cops, or, not cops?

B. Someone saw the amount of tread on a moving tire attached to a moving car?

C: They saw the amount of tread on a traveling tire, but, failed to notice the sheep in the back seat until the car stopped?

I fear something is rotten in North Yorkshire...

Re A: Roads Policing Group is part of the North Yorkshire Police which deals with traffic offences, accidents etc.

The Police in the UK do like a bit of self-aggrandisement from time to time. They used to have squads but then moved on to branches, via commands to directorates.
Mind you, I'm not sure where 'groups' fit into that particular hierarchy.

Re B: There was probably more to it than that. Many of the cars are equipped with number plate recognition cameras which can interrogate vehicle and driver licensing records and also police systems where the car might be of possible interest to them. They probably stopped him for an unstated and unrelated reason.

Re C: I can't help you on that one!

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

Re A: Roads Policing Group is part of the North Yorkshire Police which deals with traffic offences, accidents etc.

The Police in the UK do like a bit of self-aggrandisement from time to time. They used to have squads but then moved on to branches, via commands to directorates.
Mind you, I'm not sure where 'groups' fit into that particular hierarchy.

Re B: There was probably more to it than that. Many of the cars are equipped with number plate recognition cameras which can interrogate vehicle and driver licensing records and also police systems where the car might be of possible interest to them. They probably stopped him for an unstated and unrelated reason.

Re C: I can't help you on that one!

Thank you, kind sir.