[karajorma]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13491268

Police are trying to trace the owner of a life-sized tiger toy which sparked a major police alert in Hampshire over fears a real animal was on the loose.

Officers were deployed and a helicopter was scrambled with specialist thermal imaging cameras over the field, near Hedge End, on Saturday afternoon.

The alarm was raised by a member of the public who spotted what they thought was an escaped white tiger hiding in a field, through a camera's zoom lens.

Officers said they had responded as if it was a real incident, close to junction seven of the M27.

Animal specialists at nearby Marwell Zoo were enlisted by police to offer advice and were prepared to send a team with tranquiliser darts to overcome the tiger.

Officers discovered it to be a stuffed toy after it rolled over in the down draft from the police helicopter.

 


To be honest I can't really blame anyone for this scare, at a distance it would look real but that doesn't make the story any less amusing.

[Shivan Hunter]

[Snail]

I hope Hobbes gets home...