Police officers were left “confused” by a bird when it convincingly mimicked the sound of the sirens on their cars.
Thames Valley Police said staff initially thought their vehicles had developed a fault after hearing the noise at a roads policing base in Bicester.
A video filmed at the site in Oxfordshire and posted on social media shows the bird chirping in a tree - before then replicating the sound of a two-tone siren.
The force said that the copycat call was “100% real and not a late April Fools joke” and added that officers were left “a little confused”.
Acorns and now apparently birds, added to the list of things that confuse cops.
It’s starting to sound like they might be easily confused…
Damn Jabberjays.
UPDATE: Busloads of plod descended on the area with riot shields, batons, and tear gas after they heard that the source of the trouble was a Mynah bird.
You win this round.
Must have been pretty convincing to fool the police themselves.
The guys who thought an acorn was a gunshot are hard to convince???
You are aware this was the UK, right?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Police officers were left “confused” by a bird when it convincingly mimicked the sound of the sirens on their cars.
A video filmed at the site in Oxfordshire and posted on social media shows the bird chirping in a tree - before then replicating the sound of a two-tone siren.
The force said that the copycat call was “100% real and not a late April Fools joke” and added that officers were left “a little confused”.
It added: "It’s so accurate, they’ve been left thinking the sirens were faulty on the cars!
“From our workshops that test out the two tone-tune to officers deploying to jobs, this little fella has been sat patiently observing the noise to recreate it”.
Social media users speculated that the bird could be a starling, which are known for their ability to mimic man-made noises.
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