DH fell! Hilarious moment DHL courier leaps head-first over a garden gate after being spooked by a barking dog
- Terrified delivery man somersaults over the gate as the parcel falls to the floor
- He then smirks at houses’s CCTV, realising gymnastic act was caught on camera
This is the hilarious moment a DHL courier flung himself head-first over a garden gate after hearing a dog bark during his rounds.
The video shows the delivery driver opening and closing the metal gate behind him as he attempts to drop off a parcel at a home in Pinxton, Nottinghamshire.
But upon hearing a dog barking he rushes back and instead of reopening the gate he initially tries to scale it, before flinging his upper body over it. He then ends up ‘somersaulting’ onto his head as the parcel falls to the floor.
Luckily the driver appears unhurt as he gets to his feet and ‘smirks’ at the CCTV camera, realising the embarrassing ordeal had been recorded.
Homeowner Tony Gascoyne said he was in fits of laughter after his security app alerted him to the footage, shot on November 1 last year, as there’s no dog at his property.
Upon hearing a dog barking the courier rushes back to the gate and flings his upper body over it
Homeowner Tony Gascoyne said he was in fits of laughter after his security app alerted him to the footage of the embarrassing incident
The 45-year-old has since explained the dog is locked inside next door’s yard – so it couldn’t possibly have hurt him – and simply sits with anyone who approaches it anyway.
Mr Gascoyne, from Blackwell, Derbyshire, said: ‘The funniest part is it’s not our dog, it’s not on our property and it’s chained up. There’s no way he could have been hurt by it.
‘It’s a big dog but its bark is worse than anything. If you go up to him he’ll just sit with you. [The courier] just heard the bark and thought it was coming for him.
‘When we got the notification from it I just thought I’d see him deliver a parcel then all of a sudden he reappears with shock on his face.
‘I can’t believe he didn’t just open the gate again because it’d be quicker than trying to jump over it. I have no idea what he was thinking. He must have been too scared.
‘I imagine he’s got a note-to-self to tell him if he hears a dog barking he’s got to get out of the way. He smirks to the camera at the end so must have realised it was there.’
Tony has confirmed the red-faced driver did deliver the parcel, which contained a car part, after the incident.
The builder’s TikTok video containing the CCTV footage has more than one million views and almost 300 comments with users jokingly mocking the driver’s panicked fall.
He says the driver messaged him after being alerted to the clip by laughing family members and he still sees the funny side.
One user commented: ‘I’d simply have to die from embarrassment.’
A second joked: ‘This poor lad isn’t going to live this down at work.’
Another said: ‘He somersaulted for his life.’
DHL has been contacted for comment.
