LONDON -- It's been mere weeks since a police helicopter responded to a call about a "person who sounded in distress" only to discover a noisy goat, and now officers in Shropshire have had a similarly confusing experience.
Last Thursday, officers in Newport responded to a report about an otter that was lying injured at the side of a road -- but not everything was as it seemed.
Report of an injured otter at the roadside turned out to be the fake fur collar from a coat pic.twitter.com/fQxkAr4fJa— Newport (Shrop) SNTs (@NewportCops) February 18, 2016
To be fair, it does look sort of like an otter.
Now at this point, less sympathetic individuals would have left the fur collar and gone on their way. But Newport officers were not about to abandon a fur collar in need.
Thank you to everyone for their concerns .. Ollie the Faux Otter is safely in our van recovering from his ordeal pic.twitter.com/HByvaj6J8w— Newport (Shrop) SNTs (@NewportCops) February 18, 2016
Yep, that's right -- Ollie the Faux Otter now has a loving home.
#OllieTheOtter Update:
Currently feeling much better & reading everyone's kind messages on Twitter pic.twitter.com/mFLB7k7nKZ— Newport (Shrop) SNTs (@NewportCops) February 18, 2016
Good work, officers.