Woman rings police after finding 'wig' stuffed in her car exhaust

Her post on social media was inundated by people with comical answers

A woman who woke up to find a wig had been stuffed in her car exhaust has asked people to "stay vigilant".

The bizarre incident is reported to have happened in Molyneux Close in Birkenhead yesterday.

The woman took to posting on a Facebook community group after making the surprise discovery.

The post read: "Watch out and be vigilant. Someone has stuffed a wig up my exhaust pipe. Molyneux Close.

"Police informed."

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No information has come forward as to why the wig was put up the car exhaust or whether in was a man's or woman's style wig.

Merseyside Police said they did not wish to comment but confirmed the incident had been reported.

After the post was shared to Wirral Crimewatch Facebook group it received over 1,000 comments and was shared 170 times with many

And many had quite comical responses for her, while others explained she may have been mistaken thinking it was a wig.

Christopher Davis posted: "All the people laughing should be ashamed of yourselves. The first copper on the scene had to call for backup, it was getting a bit hairy."

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Jamie Wheeler said: "The police need to straighten this out."

Ciaran Green replied: "Hope there's no perm-anent damage. If you comb over the crime scene and mullet over, maybe you'll find them and wig them back."

Steve Mcnulty said: "Police have arrested a man called Dan Druff."

Brian D'Arcy said: "If there's a police line up, you’ll only see their head and shoulders."

Pammy Robinson posted: "It will all blow over."

Some people did provide a possible explanation, saying it was likely that it was not a wig but a problem with the exhaust's packing material to dampen noise.

Ian Ball said: "The material is the fiberglass baffling material from inside the muffler. It is an early indicator that the muffler is failing. The interior metal frame work is rusting away allowing the packing to escape."

Mike Bonner agreed: "That's the baffler - that not a wig that's what's in the back box to quiet noise lol."

While Denise Bermingham Stewart said: "I genuinely hope you find out what happened with your car exhaust, looking at what I think are genuine comments it looks like known issue and I hope you resolve your problem, but inadvertently you have brought smiles all over Wirral this evening and I thank you for that, humour defeats all, thanks again for creating a smile."