Dad. Cat. Tree.
My Dad used to live in a fairly remote area, a small village surrounded by fields, well off the beaten track.

As with any sense of remoteness, comes a sense of 'not being found, if you injure yourself by acting a prat'.

Sadly, my Father had drank his fair share at the local one winter, and had walked home from the pub to discover that his cat was stuck in the tree. Being a drunken fool, he decided the best option was to attempt to scale the tree and somehow rescue the cat.

What actually happened was my Dad clambered a fair way up the tree, and then realised he was stuck. Then he decided to fall out the tree. Landing flat on his back, on the cold frozen mud of the next door field, narrowly missing the jagged fence which surrounded the yard, and somehow avoiding falling down into open drainage tank, which lay in between his garden and the neighbours.

It apparently took my Dad nearly two hours, to drag his now, very battered and very sober arse indoors, before ringing his Brother (My uncle) who promptly laughed at him, before taking him to the hospital.

Silly old berk. Incidentally the cat was fine.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Thu 24 Feb 2011, 23:34, 5 replies)

how
did the cat get down though?
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:55, closed)

Fuck knows.
Must have just clambered down and used my Dad's bruised, drunken form as some form of landing pad or something?

Either way it got down and therefore there was no need for my Dad to risk his neck.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:45, closed)

Cats are never really stuck in trees.
If they manage to climb up, they can go down. Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?
( Matth knows what yellow snow tastes like, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 15:21, closed)

You can have a click
Just for feeling the need to explain to us that your Dad's brother is your uncle...
( ousgg is not seeking approval, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 12:14, closed)

haha cheers
:)
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Sat 26 Feb 2011, 12:52, closed)