Major operation to rescue 'amorous' couple who fell over wall A North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman admitted it was a "very strange" incident. She said: "It would appear that a couple in their 30s were getting a little bit amorous against a stone wall at the side of the road when unfortunately the lady has slipped backwards and fallen over the wall and down a steep embankment on the other side. Unfortunately as she has fallen the male has attempted to get hold of her but the momentum has pulled him over as well. They have both fallen down the steep embankment. Firefighters used ladders to help paramedics get to the couple and transfer them onto stretchers. The Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team was also called out to help recover the two casualties. The area where the bizarre mishap befell the couple, on Brunt Acres Road close to the entrance to a business park, is popular with walkers and sightseers. The emergency services are regularly called out to unusual incidents. In 2010 a naked couple who climbed to the top of a four-storey building in Aberdeen's city centre triggered a full-scale recovery operation involving police, the fire brigade and ambulance service after the woman plunged through the roof. The same year an RAF search and rescue helicopter crew deployed to check on a suspicious boat in Swansea Bay discovered a stag party of 10 men on a fishing trip who had all removed their clothes as a joke. In 2011 Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service were called out after a woman became trapped in a flat-pack wardrobe she was assembling. A police helicopter, 12 firemen, coastguards, police officers and a farmer took part in a two-hour rescue of a courting couple whose car fell into a slurry pit in Dorset in 2002.