Police Vulture Training Not a Success

rbrausse writes "Some time ago Slashdot covered the German police vulture training scheme; now it is time for a follow-up. BBC reports that the project has failed to take off. The trained vulture hasn't shown interest in working as a detective and confuses human with animal remains. Additionally the bird is shy and prefers to travel by foot."

"Failed to take off"

[Hsien-Ko]

I've never seen a pun so logical with the problem like this.

Police lions.

[sg_oneill]

In other news the police lion project was also cancelled after the cats proved more interest in tearing the police-dogs limb to limb and then feasting on the arms of the trainers.

The pigs should use pigs.

[lexsird]

Aside from the obvious title fun, pigs are smarter than buzzards by far and they are already used to find truffles. Seriously, if they can be trained for truffles, they could be trained for finding a buried body. Imagine the hijinks of having a pig that can find both. It would be a twisted sort of lottery on what the pig found unless you could get him to distinguish between the two and signal which it is. Train them to find weed too would be a great trick. And bombs! Yes!

"Today, Pigs found a bomb and saved the day, details at 6 and 10!"
"Did you hear what that news guy called the police?"
"No, I wasn't paying attention."
"He said the pigs found a bomb!"
"Bravo for the pigs then, they weren't out handing out tickets then."
"No, it was real pigs that found the bomb."
"...as opposed to part time pigs?"
"No, these were real pigs as in oink oink, four legs, root around pigs!"
"I get it, they were full time pigs."
"No!"
"No? Either they are pigs or not?"
"Yes, they are pigs but they are swine."
"Aren't all cops swine?"
"From many's point of view, but these aren't cops they are pigs. Well, they are cops, but they are pigs first then cops second."
"So you are going "good cop, bad cop" with this? And pigs are the bad cops?"
"No, no no! These pigs are good cops, they found that bomb! But they aren't cops, they are pigs!"
"Whatever, now you are just being a dick."