Rabbit find like a Benny Hill sketch, says Hanningfield mechanic

A mechanic described the moment a rabbit was found in the bottom tray of a car as like "a Benny Hill sketch". Ben Riddell, the director of Hanningfield Motor Company, East Hanningfield, Essex, said when a Volkswagen Golf arrived from Burnham-on-Crouch for a service they removed the bottom tray and found the animal. While mice were a common find, he said, rabbits were "extremely rare" and he was initially concerned the stowaway was someone's pet. "It then sort of ended a bit like a Benny Hill sketch, we chased it around the workshop, it went behind some cabinets and then we eventually managed to get it out and I'd like to think it's living a happy life in a field somewhere now," he said. When starting work on the car on 26 May, the mechanics noticed that the vehicle's tray felt "heavier than usual" and when they removed it they found the rabbit staring back at them. Riddell said: "I can't for the life of me understand why it would go in there. "The technician that was doing [the work] made quite a noise. I think he was concerned it was a squirrel or something at first. "Mice is fairly regular because we're a sort of countryside area, they tend to jump in, we've found nuts stored in

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