It is some sort of sit-on Dolphin-like creation Rob. This was at a petrol station and the passenger in the other car was seemingly transfixed by the rings - he stared at them the whole time we were there. I cannot believe he did not relent at the last minute and dash out and free his true love!
It was a slightly surreal arrangement and scene Tom and although it was shot in a passing whim, as it were, there are odd overtones resulting from the connection between the Octopus and the man. There is also the strange feeling that this would all her perfectly normal in a small town on the South Coast of England, but the Côte d'Azure?!