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From the New Zealand Herald--

Cat on a fast tin roof

02.04.2004
By ROSALEEN MacBRAYNE
Lying spreadeagled on the roof of a moving car with a traffic officer
in hot pursuit can leave a cat feeling a little grumpy.

The ordeal of Bono, a 7kg grey-coloured persian, came to the attention
of Constable Tim Shields, who saw the cat clinging to the hatchback of
a Toyota Celica travelling through Tauranga's streets.

Owner John Sutton thought the cat had been safely shooed off the car
before he set out for work.

But after covering three blocks and travelling at 50km/h along the
city's busy Cameron Rd on Tuesday, he had to slow for a car in front.

It was then that he saw a fluffy creature slide down the windscreen
and grip the wiper blades.

"It gave me a hell of a fright. Then I realised it was Bono and he was
bloody petrified."

Pulling over to the grass median strip - "so he would have somewhere
soft to land" - Mr Sutton got out and grabbed the cat from the bonnet.
Only then did he become aware of an unmarked patrol car with lights
flashing pulling up behind him.

"I thought he was going to ping me for driving with something
dangerous on the roof. I hadn't done anything wrong that I could think
of."

Instead, Mr Shields was convulsed with laughter. He had been coming
from the opposite direction and spotted what he thought was a fluffy
toy or a stuffed cat being carried on the car roof as a joke.

But as he passed Mr Sutton "I realised it was real all right. The
expression on that cat's face was hilarious. I'll never forget it; the
picture is firmly fixed in my mind. It was wide-eyed and obviously
knew the consequences if it let go".

He said the cat was on the glass part of the hatchback with its front
feet on the roof of the car. He did a u-turn, switched on his lights
and gave chase to alert the driver.

Mr Sutton said Bono began purring as soon as he picked him up.

The 3 1/2-year-old cat was put inside the car - now sporting some
scratches on its roof - and taken home the conventional way.