Squirrel helps police with their enquiries!

[Calum]

I know this has nothing to do with Microsoft or computers but i really think that this deserves a mention. I spotted this article in the paper by chance on the bus this morning!  

quote:from Metro (UK daily newspaper) Friday May 31 2002:
He may not have the gleaming coat and eager eyes of Lassie or be able to glide gracefully through the water like Flipper but Nutty the squirrel has claimed his own place in the annals of animal heroes.
The bushy-tailed detective led police to a real criminal's lair.

The story began when officers were called to a garage in Bath at 1:20 AM yesterday and arrested a 20-year old man on suspicion of burglary. When they returned later to carry out a search they were met by a grey squirrel sitting in front of the garage.

The animal - and, remember, the police are prepared to swear this in a court of law - then appeared to indicate that it wanted the officers to follow it.

A spokeswoman for Avon and Somerset police said: "The squirrel scampered down the path and kept stopping and looking at the officers to check they were behind. They followed it for about 100 yards before the squirrel climbed a tree - and around it were these boxes of loot. We apprehended a burglar and recovered stolen goods with the help of a squirrel."

The grateful officers rewarded the animal with a handful of nuts.
With a clear-up rate like that, squirrels are bound to form part of the next crime initiative.

[ May 31, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[Refalm]

Cool

[ravuya]

(stunned silence)

[Master of Reality]

cool indeed
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him

[ravuya]

But why did the squirrel narc on the thief? Did the thief reneg on some kind of thievery contract?

[Master of Reality]

my theory is that the thief and the squirral's father were partners in crime... the squirral would act injured on the front lawn and the home-owners would come out to save/kill him while the thief went about thieving and then he would claim the squirral as his and take it from the victims just before it was killed/taken in. Well one day the thief decide that the squirral knew too much, so after thieving from the house he just let the people kill the squirral by burning it. Well the squirral had a son which he told all his secrets to. So this son is the squirral who showed the cops where the stash was in vengence for his father's life.