If you happened to looked up into a honey locust tree in Artisan Square last Sunday June 26 and thought you saw a rather happy lookin veiled chameleon enjoying the view then, well, you probably did.
The chameleon in question, Oscar, normally lives at Bowen's Little Pet Store.
On that night, however, Oscar was on a vacation. Pet store owner Joldine Lee had been looking to give the five-year-old a stroll to improve his disposition when he decided he'd prefer a full night out.
"The chameleon looked depressed and I thought that he might want to go for a walk so I took him out and put him in a branch of a tree. He's been up there before but this time he stood up on his tail and reached up with his front legs and just continued going up.
"I couldn't reach him to get him down, not even on a ladder."
She and store employee Lise Cote decided the best chance of getting the multi-coloured, scaly Chamaeleo calyptratus down would be to enlist the help of someone with a bucket truck. Who else but Shaw cable's Tim Hausch?
Hausch was willing but his bucket truck was broken. Firemen were called and came along in full regalia, but not before Tim the Rescuer had returned with a borrowed bucket truck cable guys have friends in high places and went to work and soon had Oscar down.
"It was lovely of Tim," Lee said. "He went out of his way to actually find a working bucket truck and it was very sweet of him."
