Two kind strangers came to the rescue after a cheeky 18-month-old baby locked herself in a car outside Home Bargains.
Leasa Keay had just been shopping in the Amesbury store on Monday with best friend Kim Berrington and Kim's 18-month-old daughter Rosie.
While the mums loaded the boot with shopping, Rosie had pressed the button on the keys to lock herself in the car, along with their mobile phones.
Leasa said: "We had put all the bits inside the car and put her in because she likes to play on the steering wheel, not realising while we were putting things in the boot that she had pressed the key. We had shut the door because it was raining to stop her getting wet.
"When we shut the boot, she had locked us out."
They spent 45 minutes signalling at Rosie and telling her to unlock the car, while she was "laughing her head off", and even put the key back in the ignition.
However, two young men in their 20s, who worked for a groundworks company, came to the rescue.
One of them used what "looked like a small plastering triangle" to unhook the car's convertible's rooftop from the window.
He then squeezed his hand into a tiny gap and asked her for the keys, which little Rosie took out of the ignition and gave to him.
Leasa said: "I couldn't be more grateful. We had come from Warminster, about 45 minutes away, and we had to get back to get the other children from school.
"It was spiralling out of control until this lovely gentleman and his friend helped us. I couldn't even get my phone to call my husband, because my phone was in the car.
"He kept saying we can't leave the kid in the car. There is kindness out there."
Leasa adds that they are "extra careful now".
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