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Everyone can just go home now because British police have won at 280-character tweets
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So yesterday Twitter doubled the character limit, upgrading it to 280 and causing a collective nervous breakdown, hot takes, anger, and daring experiments.
Hate it or love it, the feature has certainly its silver linings. And British people, with their deadpan humour, know how to make the best of it.
This, for example, is how Sussex Police decided to use its #280characters:
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— Sussex Police (@sussex_police) November 8, 2017 Read more…
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Cops respond to calls for help, but it was just a dramatic parrot
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Diego the parrot somehow learned to yell the word “help,” and his cry caused quite the confusion this week.
@UPS driver heard someone yelling “help” inside house. Deputies responded and found the culprit. Thankfully Diego the Parrot was unharmed pic.twitter.com/e5BVG5B5AO
— Clackamas Sheriff (@ClackCoSheriff) November 7, 2017
According to a report from Oregon Live, an unnamed delivery driver was out on his route at approximately 7:45 p.m. near Clackamas, Oregon on Monday when he heard what sounded like someone calling for help. Read more…
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Around the world, police use social media to hopefully get their message across to the youth.
Sometimes it’s funny. Other times, as in the case of a video by the Western Australian Police Force, it’s just plain cringeworthy.
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Suspected burglar found stuck in a chicken shop vent
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Imagine To Catch a Thief, but instead of Cary Grant it’s a guy stuck in a vent for hours and hours.
On Thursday West Midlands Police arrested a suspect in Birmingham, UK, in a rather odd position.
Here’s what we found when we were called to a burglary in progress todayhttps://t.co/2546WlYOLE pic.twitter.com/QvdXTj8Nuv
— West Midlands Police (@WMPolice) November 2, 2017
According to the police press release the suspect had been stuck there for a nightmarish seven hours, and had to call to passers-by for help.
“Police were called after a member of the public spotted a pair of legs sticking out from DFC Chicken on Rookery Road in Handsworth at around 8.20am today, 2 November,” said the statement. Read more…
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