Dau!!! (phinoise)
Perhaps the woman should have tried to talk to the body, perhaps it would have Mutter(ed) - "H-aloo"
Sorry. I'm going now.
Fearing she had stumbled across a body, dogwalker reports pota-toe to police
The game is... a potato? That's how it turned out to be for a dogwalker from the Tyne and Wear town of Gateshead in North East England. Word has reached Vulture Towers that a pro-tuber-ance in muddy soil was reported to Northumbria Police last Tuesday because it looked distressingly like human remains lay beneath. Things got …
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Monday 11th January 2021 14:26 GMT Version 1.0
She acted sensibly
She saw something suspicious and reported it to people who are trained to investigate, had it been a real toe and she'd dug it up it could have messed up the investigation.
<joke>In Tech terms, think about seeing something odd in a program, do you report the "bug toe" the developer or do you open a hex editor and patch the app?</joke>
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Monday 11th January 2021 14:48 GMT Ben Tasker
Re: She acted sensibly
> She saw something suspicious and reported it to people who are trained to investigate
We recently, while walking the dog, found something odd, round and metal being exposed in the sand by the tide.
I dug down the side of it a little way to try and find markings/clues of what it was, but it just grew in width and went quite deep.
So, we called the rozzers, who said "don't like the look of that" and called EOD. They came, decided to leave it overnight (as the tide was going to cover it) and revisit in the morning. The local paper ran a story about a suspected mine being found on the beach.
The next morning, EOD came back and started work on it. In the pictures you can see where they've carefully excavated around the edge of it.
Turns out it was an old, upturned metal bucket....
But, a week after, there was a story in the paper about someone who'd found some unknown metal objects on the beach and taken them home. Turns out they were old grenades, which then proceeded to explode in their kitchen.
If it's suspicious, there's only so much you can really interfere with it - it's better to err on the side of caution than to leave something lying around.
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Monday 11th January 2021 17:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: She acted sensibly
A few years ago, a German war mine wanted up in South Wales. The parents allowed their kids to play with it, and took photos of them with it.. The bomb squad made a controlled explosion (it turned out to be dud, but no-one knew that)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3201972/Children-pose-holiday-snaps-unexploded-World-War-Two-Wales.html
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Monday 11th January 2021 17:45 GMT Pascal Monett
"With a little digging"
Are you joking ? Have you not seen all the shows about police investigations ? There really are a lot of them, and most of them emphasize that a crime scene is not to be disturbed.
She was right to call the police. The police were undoubtedly relieved that there wasn't some grim murder to investigate. I'm sure it was just like that time my chimney caught fire and I had to call the fire department. They came, saw what was burning, axed it off the chimney frame and took it outside. When I apologised for the nuisance, the chief answered "Not a problem sir. We very much prefer not to have to drag out dead bodies."
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
