Tourists were alarmed yesterday when they spotted a white tiger in long grass in a field near Southampton. After several phone calls, the police took a look and called out the air support helicopter. A nearby zoo supplied a tranquilliser dart. The golf course next door was evacuated. The forces of good closed in on...
...no, not this.
This is what the helicopter found when it failed to get a reading from its heat-seeking camera:
They're wondering if it was a hoax.
Gee, d'ya think?
My mum has a toy like that..I'll have to tell her not to put it in the garden, just in case...it beggars belief really that they didn't check more closely before going all out
ReplyDeleteAWWWW!!!!!! Such a cute stuffed tiger!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh good lord! We had a Mountain lion on the loose in my town. Sadly the police had to shoot it (no time to get a tranqulizer gun) the lion showed up a block away from a school just as the children were arriving..
ReplyDeleteThat's funny! I know that joke cost a lot of money but it was well done.
ReplyDeleteLooks pretty real to me.
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