Aviva, the UK insurance people, have just published a list of some of their more interesting recent car claims and are asking customers to vote for their favourite. Here’s one:

‘A zebra collided with my car while I was at a Safari Park.” 

And here’s another : ” The car was parked when a reindeer fell on the bonnet.”

But this has to be my favourite piece of cautious optimism:

 ” A frozen squirrel fell out of a tree and crashed through the windscreen on to the passenger seat.” 

Thus, I would have expected this little rodent, casually atempting to warm up on a bitterly cold day, would have won hands down in Aviva’s poll. Strangely, no. At the time of writing, this had speedily overtaken even my gravity assisted squirrel:

” As I was driving round the bend, one of the doors flew open and a frozen kebab flew out, hitting and damaging a passing car.”

Now I can accept squirrels are clearly more funny than Zebras - a frozen Zebra coming through your windscreen having fallen out of a tree is clearly not very funny. But my question is this. Why is superfast food-with-attitude even funnier than the wobbly zebra, the roving reindeer,and my very own stiff squirrel?

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