My Landlord, part 2..
His father's friend, with whom he shared the Regency obsession, used to drive a carriage that was pulled by Zebras and his servant used to ride a Llama to the Post Office...

His wife died quite young and he led a fairy lonely lifestyle, by all accounts - she had been the love of his life and such eccentricities gave him some light relief, I suppose.

Also, my landlord's father once set his lace sleeve cuff alight with the oil lantern he was holding whilst walking to his friends' house. His servants immediately dropped the sedan chair (with his wife inside), which toppled onto its side (with his wife now unable to open the door and get out), in order to beat the flames out. Thus, his wife was left trapped in a box in the middle of the main road, with cars passing either side of her. When the police told him he couldn't use the sedan chair on the road because it had no lights and was thus an illegal vehicle, he replied that it wasn't a vehicle, but a parcel that his servants were delivering, this getting round the law. His wife must have been thrilled...
(Chad, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 10:02, Reply)