Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Cop Borrows Dog To Trick Thieves

A story in the Manchester Evening News this weekend made me laugh.

A copper was chasing two teenage suspects down a street and she grabbed a passing Labrador and shouted:

“Stop! Or I’ll release the dog!”

The two teenagers didn’t know it wasn’t a police dog, so they stopped!

24 year old, PC Leanne Murphy from Oldham said:

“When I gave the lady her dog back, their faces were quite a picture,” she said.  “They didn’t say a word. They started to cry.”

The copper of four years is pictured here with her own red setter, Freeway.

PC Murphy said:

“One of my colleagues chased them but lost them under a bridge. I parked up on the bridge. I shouted at them and they ran in the opposite direction.  I accosted some poor lady’s dog and just shouted `stop, or I’ll release the dog’. First of all they just carried on running. But the dog got a bit excited and jumped up on a wall. They stopped in their tracks and came back.”

She added: “They were running in the opposite direction.  The lady didn’t say anything when I gave her dog back. I said `thanks’ and she said `no problem – I’m happy to help’ and then she laughed.”