UN Car crash caused when driver 'swerved to avoid octopus' - All time high!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-47144891

A driver who swerved "to avoid an octopus" before crashing has been arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.

Police were called to the A381 between Malborough and South Milton in Devon, where they found a vehicle upside-down in a ditch on Tuesday evening.

The 49-year-old driver was checked over by paramedics before being arrested.

Officers, who tweeted about the incident, said they found no evidence of an octopus on the road.

Octopuses are not unheard of in the seas off the south coast of England, but this particular cephalopod would have had to crawl more than 5km over hills and fields to find itself in the path of a car on the A381.

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Image captionPolice said they found no evidence of an octopus on the A381 between Malborough and South Milton
A spokeswoman for Devon and Cornwall Police said: "He did a bit of a slow roll into a ditch.

"An ambulance went out and the driver was checked over by paramedics but there weren't injuries enough to go to hospital."

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The man, from Salcombe, was arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit through drugs or drink and has been released under investigation pending further inquiries.

Twitter users were quick to respond with puns.

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It's good to see the police kraken down on drug driving

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A case for the Cephala Plod.


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The car lost control and went into a squid

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However, police pointed out that driving under the influence of drugs - illegal or prescription - was a serious matter, and could be "just as dangerous as drink-driving".

What a twist it would be if the Beast Of Bodmin Moor was an octopus...

 

[TowinKarz]

He didn't have his "swerve to avoid creature of indeterminate origin loicense"

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

It's Devon, it was probably his heavily deformed inbred cousin

 

[Matthew216]

Wait, England? I was sure it would say Florida.

 

[shartshooter]

Pretty sure this headline is from SimCity

 

[Judge Holden]

While this nigga may be in jail, he can rest easy knowing he will be among the few to be spared when the star spawned hordes of R'lyeh swarm up from the depths

 

[Kari Kamiya]

What if the driver was the octopus all along?

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Jesus man, don't they have driver's education there? The first thing they taught us, if there's an octopus in the road just run it down. Those assholes don't even have bones! And if you see them in the street, they're starting their invasion, so it's your duty to run them over.

 

[LocalFireDept]

Jesus man, don't they have driver's education there? The first thing they taught us, if there's an octopus in the road just run it down. Those assholes don't even have bones! And if you see them in the street, they're starting their invasion, so it's your duty to run them over.

They don't teach you how to make an 8-point turn in driving school.

 

[sasazuka]

It's Devon, it was probably his heavily deformed inbred cousin

Does Devon have that kind of reputation? I spent a couple of weeks in a cottage in Devonshire 20 years ago this coming summer and found it very pleasant. Like, if I had to live in Britain, I'd much rather live in Exeter than London (nice to visit but too "big" for me, the same problem I have with Toronto).

 

[RG 448]

I hope the octopus is okay.

 

[Red Hood]

Remember the octopus in Ecco the Dolphin? Man, I hate cephalopods.

 

[Koby_Fish]

if it's a blue-ringed octopus, you don't swerve. You run that fucker over, and then run it over again, just to be sure.

 

[Dr. Tran]

Stories like this make me wonder what if he wasn't crazy or high and some anomalous event just took place. Like some alien just teleported into existence or a by product of some wizard magic battle or some stupid shit like that. It'd be like the start of some Terry Pratchett novel.