Hogging a KFC cup left a spiky little critter in a sticky situation, but police were on hand to help him out.
Waitemata police Constable Jansen Van Rensburg rescued the hedgehog at Hooton Reserve on Auckland's North Shore, after spotting him roaming with a KFC Krusher cup lid on his head.
A police spokesman said it was after midnight when Van Rensburg stumbled across the hedgehog, who "seemed a bit distressed swaying his head side to side".
"She cut it off and it walked off on its merry way."
It's not the first prickly situation Van Rensburg has attended to, she's had to rescue a couple in the past few years, especially on night shifts.