Lizard or laundry? Family wrongfooted by pink stripey sock

The family were ‘mortified’ when they realised their mistake.A family who thought they had discovered a lizard in their house were found to have overestimated the scale of the problem – after it turned out to be a dirty sock.The “terrified” family called the RSPCA to their Coventry home after they thought they had spotted a reptile under a bed.