U.K. police use helicopters to hunt toy tiger

• NeverSayGoodBye

  24 May 11, 22:54

  

  This police photo shows the toy tiger that sparked a helicopter search near Southampton, England. (Hampshire Constabulary/AP)

  Police scrambled helicopters and ordered tranquilizers to hunt what they feared was an escaped wild animal in southern England — but found that the tiger was a toy.

  Hampshire Police say they responded after several residents called in to say they'd seen a white tiger in a field near a golf course in Hedge End, near the English coastal city of Southampton.

  A tongue-in-cheek recorded message posted to the force's media line said that after "a brief stalk through the Hedge End savannah ... it became obvious that the tiger was a stuffed, life-sized toy."

  A second message posted on Sunday emphasized police had a duty to take such sightings seriously. As for the renegade tiger, "it's being treated as lost property."

• Junyang700

  25 May 11, 00:12

  LOL...

• NeverSayGoodBye

  25 May 11, 00:27

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  LOL...

  
  .....looks real from afar

• TIB1234T

  25 May 11, 00:32

  Hahaha... Funny sia, if its me i'll guess its toy, cos my house also got this tiger. Same pattern somemore.

• TIB1234T

  25 May 11, 00:33

  Originally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:

  
  .....looks real from afar

  
  It does looks real, cos of the size and big blue eyes.

• Junyang700

  25 May 11, 00:34

  I think Singapore sells this tiger lor... seen it somewhere before.

• TIB1234T

  25 May 11, 00:36

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  I think Singapore sells this tiger lor... seen it somewhere before.

  
  Have, but not many....

• Junyang700

  25 May 11, 01:50

  Originally posted by TIB1234T:

  
  Have, but not many....

  Buy one and put it at Orchard Road. Haha...