A herd of cows helped police capture a man on the run by cornering him in a field in South West England.
Officers from the Devon and Cornwall force were tracking the fugitive as he tried to make his escape in the countryside. But he didn’t reckon on a persistent group of cows who pursued him across a field and into the welcoming arms of the law.
The dramatic action was filmed from a helicopter by the National Police Air Service (NPAS) South West Region on Tuesday afternoon (December 6) and the shadowy figure of the man can be seen followed by a herd of around a dozen cows. Whether they were angry he had encroached upon their field or whether they were just curious is not clear, but what is definitely clear is that there actions helped officers nab their prime suspect, reports Devon Live.
So much so, that at the end of the video, the Police NPAS crew can heard (or should that be herd?) asking their colleagues on the ground to "thank the cows."
“Watch the moment a man on the run from @DC_Police was herded up by a group of cows in Devon and ‘mooved’ out of their field into the arms of waiting police officers,” they wrote on Twitter. “However, we did have to remind the cows not to take the law into their own hoofs.”
The tweet garnered over 500 likes and more than 100 retweets, with officers adding: “It was a high steaks incident – he was told to stop running, but it clearly went in one ear and out the udder.”
Followers on Twitter also weighed in with puns of their own, like ‘breaking moos’ and ‘suspect to face the moo-sic’, followed by, ‘OK, don’t milk it’.
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