GingerTabby
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Catastrophic error.
Armed police and a helicopter were scrambled to reports of a tiger on the loose in the countryside - only to find the wild animal was a life-size model.
Officers responding to the call in Underriver, Kent, on Saturday were met by the sculpture's creator.
"I took them down to the sculpture where they all had a good laugh and took a lot of photographs," artist Juliet Simpson, 85, said.
Kent Police said it found there was "no animal and no risk to the public".
Told by a neighbour that police were investigating reports of a loose big cat, Mrs Simpson set off up the lane near her home.
"Out of the field opposite came a whole crowd of armed police, who by then knew that it was all a false alarm and I said 'would they like to be introduced to my real live tiger?'" she told BBC Radio Kent.
"It looks quite real, it's meant to look real and it is about 30 metres from the footpath so you can't see it very closely."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-52520773
We striped quadrupeds have that effect on people.