{"id":2104,"date":"2013-03-26T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?2104"},"modified":"2013-03-26T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:55:57","slug":"a-squirrel-burned-down-my-house-claims-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/a-squirrel-burned-down-my-house-claims-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A squirrel burned down my house, claims man"},"content":{"rendered":"
A funeral car travelling to a burial in Romford was forced to make a bizarre U-turn recently when one of the passengers realised his house was on fire.<\/p>\n
To make matters even stranger, the cause of the blaze was later identified as a squirrel chewing through cables.<\/p>\n
Alby Tebbutt was in the final car of a procession heading to a funeral when he received a call informing him his garage was burning, and the fire went on to cause £20,000 worth of damage.<\/p>\n
"I said to the driver: 'My house is on fire. Go left here.' The driver said: 'I can't do that, I'm in a funeral', and I told him: 'Never mind that, turn left now,'" Mr Tebbutt is quoted as saying by the Metro.<\/p>\n
The driver eventually followed his instruction and dropped him to his house, but he arrived only to see it burning down and the blame attributed to a squirrel with a chewing habit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has blamed a squirrel for burning his house down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n