Something fishy about this one officer....

[zimzum42]

Heron to blame for fish 'thefts'


A Suffolk police investigation into the disappearance of fish worth thousands of pounds has been called off after a heron was found to be the culprit.
Suffolk Police were called in after 27 koi carp and seven large goldfish vanished from a Carlton Colville home.
Officers suspected a raid by thieves and issued a witness appeal which asked if locals saw "anything suspicious" or if they had been offered similar fish.
But the appeal was recalled soon after when they found the heron was to blame.
A further statement issued by police explained: "This incident is now being attributed to a large heron."
A police spokesman said: "We take all incidents very seriously and we were worried that someone might have made off with fish worth thousands of pounds.
"Thankfully, on this occasion an arrest wasn't necessary."

 

[Keith Oates]

Must have been one very hungry Heron to eat all those fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Globalti]

Herons are voracious ugly primitive bastards, I reckon that if birds are the closest surviving relatives to dinosaurs, herons are the least evolved of the lot. That must mean that they're successful. I used to work next to the Lee Valley reservoirs in Walthamstow; the company had a big ornamental fish pond and the herons came and scoffed all the goldfish. They put a plastic heron on the parapet and netting over the pond but it was too late. We have a heron in the field at the back and it will sit for hours in the stream or in the boggy bits, biding its time. Horrible creatures.

 

[Fnaar]

I think they're lovely (to look at, anyroad, mebbe not so lovely if they scoff your fish). The epitome of patience, and darned graceful when they take to the air.

 

[Globalti]

Graceful? They've as much grace as a Lancaster bomber.

Now a curlew - that's a beautiful, graceful, mysterious bird....

 

[Fnaar]

Graceful? They've as much grace as a Lancaster bomber.

Now a curlew - that's a beautiful, graceful, mysterious bird....

True about the curlew, but i stand by my herons

 

[snakehips]

I used to work next to the Lee Valley reservoirs in Walthamstow; the company had a big ornamental fish pond and the herons came and scoffed all the goldfish.

I used to frequent that area quite a bit. There used to be a colony of herons that hung around in some disused wharves on the canal near Tottenham Hale.

I think they are beautiful creatures but I wouldn't get close to one. I remember an RSPB man losing an eye when handling one some years ago!

 

[Fnaar]

P'raps I won't stand BY my herons, then, I'll keep a safe distance :?:

 

[Fnaar]

There's one I see most mornings in the river near home. I think I'll start calling it Gary.

 

[Fnaar]

Gary Shitepole. Call him that to his face. I dare you.

 

[Amanda P]

There's one I see most mornings in the river near home. I think I'll start calling it Gary.

Herons are all called Frank.

 

[Fnaar]

Oh... perhaps Gary can be his middle name

 

[Amanda P]

Frank Shitepole works just as well.