LONDON -- Remember that bit in Hot Fuzz where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have to apprehend an escaped swan?
Well, that pretty much just happened in real life.
Thames Valley Police's road unit tweeted the following update on Tuesday about a rogue swan they'd "found playing by the A40, Oxford."
Found playing by the A40, Oxford - came quietly & was safely reunited with parents & siblings #PS221 pic.twitter.com/95UgOciL1Z— TVP Roads Policing (@tvprp) November 3, 2015
What normally happens when the police tweet anything vaguely odd or comical is that people pile in with as many puns as they can possibly think of, and Tuesday's swan arrest was no exception.
@tvprp @UKCopHumour well done officers (you quack me up)— Ann Marie (@BlackfriarsGdns) November 4, 2015
@tvprp I suppose it was its 'Swan Song'— Paul Beard (@tangowhisky26) November 3, 2015
.@tangowhisky26 @tvprp Remanded to appear before the beak as a flight risk perhaps?— ACountryChap (@ACountryChap) November 4, 2015
The clear winner, though, was the person who pointed out the similarity between the police's update and that classic Hot Fuzz scene.
@tvprp #justsayin pic.twitter.com/eYsYGRQXUt— PD Brodie (@PDBrodie) November 3, 2015
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were clearly way ahead of their time with this one.
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