FREDDIE CAR EATEN BY HAMSTER
Rodent munches mum’s £25k motor
A HUNGRY hamster is driving mum Amanda Johnson crazy by eating its way through her brand new motor. Her £25,000 Ford Kuga, nicknamed Freddie, is being gnawed to bits by the rodent after it escaped from a box in the boot.
A MUM whose motor was eaten by her hamster has renamed it Freddie Car.
Amanda Johnson went to pick up the furry pet in her new £25,000 Ford Kuga and put it in the boot in a cage and a cardboard box.
But she nearly crashed when she felt something fluffy brush past her ankle.
She saw the orange Syrian hamster shoot out from under the clutch pedal, but could not stop to catch it because she was driving in traffic.
Now the pet has been missing for a week – and has merrily munched its way through the car’s interior.
Traps
It has evaded eight traps to chew through the airbag, the passenger side seatbelt, wiring, the seat covers, the boot and plastic casing.
Amanda, 43, could not help thinking back to the shocking 1986 story about comedian Freddie Starr allegedly eating a hamster. She explained: “I decided to rename my car Freddie because Freddie Car was eaten by my hamster.”
In a Facebook post now shared more than 60,000 times, she said: “I looked and there’s a f***ing hamster sat under the f***ing clutch pedal! Holy s**t balls! Wtf ! No stopping allowed on the roads, so had to drive the rest of the way home knowing there’s a f***ing hamster on the loose in my car!”
The mum-of-four, who runs Sam’s Coffee Shop in St Athan, south Wales, updated pals daily about how the cunning pet foiled her attempts to catch it.
On the sixth day she wrote: “Holy f***ing nonexistent fur balls! Look at the state of my f***ing boot now as well! I am actually taking a moment to be proper devastated about this!
“I can’t decide whether I’m devastated or very f***ing impressed with the wit of this little critter!”
After a week she fumed: “My once five-seater car is a four-seater now that I cannot use the passenger side!
“I believe she’s living near or around the passenger seat belt area which she has destroyed, including the side impact airbag!”
Funnyman Freddie had been staying with friends in Cheshire when he was accused of eating a hamster after they refused to make him a sandwich.
He was said to have put the poor creature between slices of bread.
But Freddie denied it in his autobiography, saying: “I’ve never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, mouse, shrew, vole or any other small mammal.”
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My five-seater’s now a four-seater