Sighting of Toy Tiger is Responded with Armed Police in Southampton

Members of the public in county Hampshire in the south of England thought they witnessed a white tiger lying comfortably (sphinx-style) in field near Hedge End, Southampton. Of course they called the police to alert them of a potentially dangerous animal on the loose.

The local constabulary duly scrambled the force's helicopter and dispatched their armed officers. Alas, it turns out that the tiger was a rather realistic soft toy; that only moved slightly when in range of the police helicopter's rotor-blade draught.

More and video footage via: The Daily Telegraph.