But it wasn't until he was on his way home that he happened upon the idyllic scene: a family out on the frozen Forest Pond in the Goulds neighbourhood, playing a bit of hockey.

A drone hovering above the treetops at Davy Crockett National Forest recently spotted something at the bottom of a pond – putting Texas police on the trail of a crime nearly three decades old.

The otter was filmed through a window by a surprised neighbour Footage of an otter attacking koi carp fish in a garden pond has emerged as a rare sighting of the creature in the New Forest ...

It was a car, photos show, every inch of it as green as the pond. Investigators pulled a sunken car out the pond, which they learned had been stolen in 1996. Trinity County Sheriff Woody Wallace.

Mr Stride said the otter cleared the pond's 10 fish - he said "it's a shame but we'll get some more fish". Follow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.