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image captionTitan the tortoise was loaded into a police van and returned to his owner
A giant tortoise managed to make it about a mile across a town before being apprehended by police.
Titan, who weighs in at a whopping nine stone (60kg), was found in Kesgrave, near Ipswich, on Friday.
It took three police officers to lift the wayward pet into a van and drive him home to his worried owner.
Richard Aston said it was a "mystery" how Titan made it that far as he had not broken through his shelter. "Maybe he teleported there," he said.
When police called Mr Aston, he was not at home so had no idea his 35-year-old pet African sulcata tortoise was on the loose.
"There was no sign of the fence being broken, and he can't jump over it - it's three feet high," he said.