A swan in Gastel fooled the fire brigade on Sunday afternoon. A passerby walked past a frozen pond and saw the animal sitting very still. Frozen, the passerby thought. And so the fire brigade was called.
It immediately came to the water, went onto the ice and then… the swan flew away. Nothing frozen solid: the ice was probably just nice. And the animal thought the joke had lasted just long enough.
The firefighters could only watch and leave without accomplishing anything. ‘Problem’ solved, but by the swan itself.