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French bus driver sacked for saving frog

A French bus driver has been told to hop it by her bosses after stopping her double-decker to rescue a frog in the road. Christina Pommerel had been working for the German bus company RBO in Regensburg for 13 years before she was sacked.

“One of the bus passengers complained to the management. They told me I should have squashed the frog and not stopped. When I said I couldn’t do that I was fired,” said Christina.

“It was in the middle of the road so I slowed down and put on the hazard flashers. Then I climbed out and put the frog in a box so I could take it to the side of the road and let it free. Then I got back on the Number Five bus and carried on with the journey and pretty much forgot about the incident until the management said they’d had a complaint.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .