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Crow swoops into crime scene and tries to steal knife identified as evidence
Crow swoops into crime scene and tries to steal knife identified as evidence
Vancouver police confirmed that a crow had albeit temporarily interfered with the crime scene investigation. Photograph: Alamy
Ashifa Kassam in Toronto
@ashifa_k
Thursday 26 May 2016 13.36 EDT
The police tape was meant to keep people out, allowing investigators in Vancouver to pore over the scene left behind after a car exploded into flames and police confronted a man wielding a knife. But it was little deterrent to a crow, who swooped into the crime scene and breezed past more than 20 police officers to make off with the knife in question.
It was really strange, said Vancouver Courier reporter Mike Howell. In my 20-plus years reporting from crime scenes, Ive never seen anything like that crow trying to take a knife.
One of the officers was forced to follow the crow as it scampered away with the knife firmly in its beak. A cop chased it for about 15ft to 20ft, and then the crow dropped it and took off, Howell told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday.
Vancouver police confirmed that a crow had albeit temporarily interfered with the crime scene investigation. The crow was persistent, but the knife was eventually gathered as evidence, said spokesman Brian Montague.
More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/26/crow-steals-knife-canada-crime-scene-car-explosion
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Crow swoops into crime scene and tries to steal knife identified as evidence (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
May 2016
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NV Whino
(20,886 posts)1. Well, they do call it a murder of crows.
Perhaps this guy was their hit man. 🐦
milestogo
(16,829 posts)2. He was probably paid off by the defense attorney.