Officers from a Police Department near Portland, Oregon, could scarcely believe their eyes when - after being alerted to a woodland area adjoining a small seaside town - they discovered
a cat perched in a tree ... with what appeared to be a *sniper rifle clutched between its paws but, on closer inspection, proved to be a branch.

See photos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-Oregon.html

Hoax call? Maybe ... ... but the cops took it in the spirit it was, perhaps, intended to be, a - and had a laugh about it in the end.