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Judi Lynn

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Thu May 26, 2016, 09:26 PM May 2016

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

  • Police confronted a man wielding knife, which the bird later tried to take

  • Animal also spotted perched on roof of a car that had exploded in Canada

    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, I’ve 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 OP
    Well, they do call it a murder of crows. NV Whino May 2016 #1
    He was probably paid off by the defense attorney. milestogo May 2016 #2
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