All fours
I don't want to hijack this thread, but i do want to tell you about a rather strange happenning a few years ago........
I am a police officer in rural lincolnshire, England. One of my friends Graham, covers another set of villages about 20 miles away. we share the same radio net.
we get quite a lot of calls to wierd things ie aliens landing, ghosts and big cats (according to the nature manuals there are no big cats in the UK, but we know differently.....)
Occasionally our armed response guys have been out looking for panthers etc.
I also am part of a scheme for destroying injured animals at the roadside using my own firearms.
Some years ago on a cold and frosty morning Graham gets a call over his radio. "please attend at ****** road, anytown. Mrs Smith reports seeing a bear walking down the street in an easterly direction"........
The radio operator then calls up the armed response guys (we are not all armed). and discovers they are engaged on an operation against armed drug dealers.
5 minutes or so later i get called up,
"Bravo Mike 13, can you straight away go to your home address and standby"
So if i trot to my home address thinking this is odd. I then recieved a call from the duty Inspector on my mobile phone, "have you got a gun big enough to kill a bear?"
reply: "yes i will use my .30-06 with 180 gr bullets" (hope it's not a really big one).
Inspector: "take your rifle and meet with other units at Anytown police station"
Me "ok sir, can i keep the skin?"
Insp. :"just bloody get there!"
Anyway i turn up at the station and everyone is looking really worried. The informant has been recontacted and is positive she had seen a bear. So i get sent out with graham and rifle to shoot this bear.
We slowly make our way up the minor road to see an ambulance up ahead with blue lights on about 200 yards past the bears last sighting.
I thought "oh ****, the bear has got someone, we better get there"
We drew up at the ambulance and got out. I knocked on the ambulance door and it was openned by a paramedic who was treating an elderly lady with a broken ankle where she had slipped on the ice.....
she was wearing her fur coat. she had walked up the shops for the morning paper and fallen over on her way back and had to crawl home past the original informants house.
interlock (intrepid hunter of fur coat wearing senior citizens)