A man who fell asleep at an east London bus stop claims he woke up to
find a fox chewing at his foot and trying to pull his trousers off.
Steve Gould, from Thurrock in Essex, had been out drinking with friends
in Soho but, after falling asleep on the train on the way home, missed
his station and woke up in Leyton.
The 35-year-old said he was a in a "drunken state" and, realizing there
were no more trains, wandered out to find a bus stop.
He said: "I passed out, basically. About an hour later I woke up and
looked down and there's a fox chewing my trainer and my trousers.
He didn't even blink. He just looked up at me as if to say 'what am I doing wrong?'
"He wasn't trying to bite me or anything. It was like he was pulling my
trousers to say 'come with me' or trying get them off."
Mr Gould, who works on the Tube, said the quickly scarpered across the
road where it was joined by another fox, who eyed Mr Gould for several
seconds before the pair ran off together into the night.
He said: "Who knows what would have happened if I hadn't woken up. I
could have lost a leg, I don't know.
But he was doing no harm. He was quite calm, he wasn't going to attack
me."
Mr Gould added: "It was just the most remarkable thing I've ever seen.
It's up there with my best ever experiences, most definitely."
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