All fans of Hot Fuzz will remember the scene where Constable Nicholas Angel, played by Simon Pegg, teams up with Nick Frost’s hapless PC Danny Butterman in a bid to capture an escaped swan.
It all leads to an elaborate joke about a man called Mr ‘P.I. Staker’, and only adds to Nicholas’ frustration in being a big city cop in a small sleepy Somerset village.
But laugh all you want – because escaped swans seemingly present a very real problem for today’s Bobbies on the beat.
This is the swan that was captured by PC Kiddle in Harold Wood, east London.
In the picture, PC Kiddle looks pretty damn relieved about having captured the bird, while the swan… Read the full story