Police stopped a motorist in Yorkshire on suspicion of driving with two bald tyres only to find there was a sheep riding in the boot of his car.
When questioned about why the sheep was in the car, the driver said he was taking it to McDonald’s for a takeaway.
North Yorkshire Police Roads Policing Group posted a picture of the car on Twitter, complete with the unexpected animal in the passenger seat, with the caption: “Ewe have got to be kidding!!!”
Ewe have got to be kidding!!! Officers have just stopped this car which has 2 bald tyres and a sheep in the boot pic.twitter.com/J7yM7wsDaS
— NorthYorksPolice RPG (@NYorksRPG) August 5, 2015
The Peugeot 206 was stopped near Leeming Bar services on the A1 in North Yorkshire on Wednesday night.
A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire police who spoke to the Northern Echo said the driver “told the officer that ‘some people take their dogs in their cars, I take my sheep’.”
“He just wanted to go for a drive-through at McDonald’s.”
It is believed the driver with the unlikely passenger was pulled over shortly after a visit to the service station.
Police said local press and social media had got excited over the sheepish tale, using the hashtag #sheepinacar.
A spokesman told the Guardian the officer who had posted the image had dealt with the incident at the scene.
He added: “We have no other information apart from what the officer tweeted. Although we might equip our officers with better high-definition cameras.”
