2023-05-20 11:57:36
18 escaped water buffalo have wreaked havoc on a couple’s garden and pool in the UK. The couple discovered the animals, each weighing 600 kilograms, in the morning. “When my wife was about to make breakfast tea and looked out the window, she saw eight buffalo in the pool,” Essex resident Andy Smith told the Guardian newspaper (Saturday).
“She dialed 911 – but the fire department said they didn’t bother with prank calls. It took quite a bit of persuasion to get them to take us seriously.” The fire brigade did show up later. Above all, the farmer, from whom the animals had escaped because of a broken electric fence, finally helped to catch them – unharmed.
Images from surveillance cameras cleared up the incident. Accordingly, the buffalo wandered into the garden early in the morning. One stepped on the pool cover and fell into the water, causing seven other animals to jump in. The clear water turned into a muddy broth.
“That pool was our retirement luxury,” Smith said. “It was earned with much sweat and toil, but after the buffalo swam in it it leaked and was useless.”
After months of waiting and struggling with an insurance company, there is now good news for the couple: the damage caused to the garden and pool in the incident last July of around 25,000 pounds (28,750 euros) will be covered.
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