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Disgruntled neighbours of joyrider Zbigniew Filo sought to put his driving days behind him when they somehow hoisted his souped-up vehicle atop a tree.



Disgruntled neighbours of joyrider Zbigniew Filo sought to put his driving days behind him when they somehow hoisted his souped-up vehicle atop a tree.

Filo, 24, awoke to find his car missing, later locating it on top of a huge willow tree in Lubczyna, Poland.

Locals have maintained a code of silence over who was responsible for the prank or how indeed the white Ford Escort ended up 20ft in the air, though one villager revealed that a crane had been borrowed for the night.

Police spokesman Marta Pierko said: 'We received a call from a man saying his car was stuck in a tree, and that his neighbours had put it there.

'After inspecting the site we instructed him to remove it from the tree.'

A local, who wished to remain nameless, was unsympathetic to Filo's vehicular plight, saying: 'Whoever, or whatever, it was, it’s probably a good thing as he was a dangerous driver and could have killed someone.

'Perhaps he’ll think twice about his hair-raising driving and about getting a licence or who knows where his next car might end up?'

The Pole, who doesn’t even have a licence, has promised to be more considerate in his driving in future.

'I get the message,' he said. 'But I think it was a bit harsh.'