AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Kirkland police answer burglary call, find a bobcat perched at the top of the stairs
A Washington state homeowner dialed 911 convinced a burglar was inside the house, but responding officers found the intruder was a bobcat that had climbed through an open window. Kirkland Police Department officers arrived at the Moss Bay neighborhood home after the resident reported loud banging and feared someone had broken in. What greeted them […] The post Kirkland police answer burglary call, find a bobcat perched at the top of the stairs appeared first on American Almanac .
A Washington state homeowner dialed 911 convinced a burglar was inside the house, but responding officers found the intruder was a bobcat that had climbed through an open window. Kirkland Police Department officers arrived at the Moss Bay neighborhood home after the resident reported loud banging and feared someone had broken in. What greeted them at the top of the staircase was not a prowler but a wild cat, a bobcat, perched and apparently in no hurry to leave. The department shared the account on its official Facebook page . Rather than corner a roughly 30-pound predator in a hallway, officers took a modern approach: they deployed a drone inside the home to track the animal's movements from a safe distance. The drone allowed police to…Open