Acorns and now apparently birds, added to the list of things that confuse cops.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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It's starting to sound like they might be easily confused...
Damn Jabberjays.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Police officers were left "confused" by a bird when it convincingly mimicked the sound of the sirens on their cars.
A video filmed at the site in Oxfordshire and posted on social media shows the bird chirping in a tree - before then replicating the sound of a two-tone siren.
The force said that the copycat call was "100% real and not a late April Fools joke" and added that officers were left "a little confused".
It added: "It's so accurate, they've been left thinking the sirens were faulty on the cars!
"From our workshops that test out the two tone-tune to officers deploying to jobs, this little fella has been sat patiently observing the noise to recreate it".
Social media users speculated that the bird could be a starling, which are known for their ability to mimic man-made noises.
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Must have been pretty convincing to fool the police themselves.
The guys who thought an acorn was a gunshot are hard to convince???
You are aware this was the UK, right?
UPDATE: Busloads of plod descended on the area with riot shields, batons, and tear gas after they heard that the source of the trouble was a Mynah bird.
You win this round.