Incidentally I was once nearly arrested for criminal damage to a car when I tried to brick the window to give relief to the poor distressed dog left on the back seat. A policeman was passing, saw me do it and tried to arrest me. When I explained about the dog, he broke the window himself and arrested the driver instead for cruelty to animals when he came to see what was happening to his car. The drivers excuse? 'When I parked it on a south facing driveway, it was in the shade' - 6 hours previously! The dog survived but the bloke was banned from keeping animals for 3 years. I seem to remember the policeman adopted the dog.

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