A worker in Britain has painted yellow lines over a squashed hedgehog rather than move it off the road.
Mother-of-four Allison Hart could not believe the dead animal was not removed by the painters, who blitzed Hartlepool streets ahead of hundreds of thousands of visitors arriving to see the Tall Ships Races.
Ms Hart (37), who took a picture of the hedgehog with a yellow stripe across its flattened belly, said: “The whole town went double yellow line mad for the Tall Ships.
"They knocked on people’s doors to get them to move their cars, but whoever did this didn’t even ask for a shovel to move the poor hedgehog.”