A butcher decided to 'lighten the mood' with a hilarious set of pranks on roadworks outside his business. Stephen Hallworth, 54, said locals had felt “depressed” when absent workers left temporary traffic lights around the one-metre-deep hole on a main road.
So the dad-of-two set about creating scenes with rubber ducks, a skeleton and prop cows wearing hi-vis jackets each day they didn’t turn up. Residents had found the high jinks “absolutely hilarious”, he said, even though council bosses later forced him to remove the objects.
But he said his stunt did eventually pay off after the workers finally returned with their "tail between their legs" to fill in the hole. Stephen said: “Everyone coming into the shop was depressed.
