This screenshot from the BBC News website really tells you all you need to know about this particular incident…
…but there are more delicious quotes to be had by clicking through:
Octopuses are not unheard of in the seas off the south coast of England, but this particular cephalopod would have had to crawl more than 5km over hills and fields to find itself in the path of a car on the A381.
So it looks like you’d have to be a real sucker to believe his story.