From the "You couldn't make this up" department, Stuff reports:
A "slippery-looking character" has been arrested after getting stuck in a Christchurch fish and chip shop's extractor fan while trying to break in this morning.
Police were called to the shop on Langdons Rd in Papanui about 2.30am, where they heard someone calling for help.
Inside they found "an unusual situation" - a man wedged in the extractor fan above the shop's cooking vats, a police spokesman said.
The man had been there for some time, and the police required assistance from the fire service to cut him out.
By the end of the ordeal the man was a "slippery-looking character" covered in oil from the vats, the spokesman said.
He was initially taken to hospital for assessment, and was discharged to police custody.
We love the "slippery-looking character" line. We can only imagine what accumulated grease and oil lurks in the ducts above the vats at any chippie, and it's somewhere you'd have to be pretty desperate to go voluntarily.
It certainly puts a whole new twist on the age-old nickname of fish and chips though; greasies!
