Cana­dian police said they caught a hot dog thief, and the ban­dit did not make an attempt to con­ceal the evid­ence.

A con­stable was on patrol in Blair­more, Alberta, when she spot­ted a red-haired fox car­ry­ing five or six full hot dogs in its mouth, accord­ing to the Royal Cana­dian Moun­ted Police in Alberta. Police pos­ted the fox’s photo on social media last week, with a wink and a nod, to warn the pub­lic about the brazen crim­inal.

Thou­sands of people shared the photo, includ­ing many who jok­ingly insisted the fox was wrongly accused.

“He is inno­cent!!!” someone wrote. “Could have got those wein­ers any­where!!!”

“Sus­pect asks for con­sid­er­a­tion on the grounds of extreme cute­ness,” another per­son said.

“Gen­er­ally against ‘ crime’ but maybe this one gets a pass,” wrote another com­ment­ator.

Police didn’t take the animal into cus­tody or file charges.

“The sus­pect was released without con­di­tions — and a full belly!” accord­ing to the police depart­ment’s Ins­tagram post.

Police shared the photo with a dead­pan and fic­tional back­story of how they received a call report­ing a bar­be­cue theft. It’s unclear where the fox found the hot dogs.

“We’re hop­ing that people see it for what it was: a light­hearted story — something funny — to share with the pub­lic and, you know, something that hope­fully will bring smiles to a few people,” Cpl. Mathew How­ell told The Wash­ing­ton Post.

The fox was spot­ted with the mouth­ful of cookout con­tra­band a week before Vic­toria Day, a hol­i­day hon­or­ing Bri­tain’s Queen Vic­toria, who signed the Brit­ish North Amer­ica Act that estab­lished Canada as a coun­try in 1867. Cana­dians cel­eb­rate the hol­i­day sim­il­arly to how Amer­ic­ans observe Memorial Day — with lots of bar­be­cues.

The con­stable who saw the fox was in a neigh­bor­hood sur­roun­ded by woods, How­ell said. Mat­ing sea­son for red foxes in Alberta is in Janu­ary and Feb­ru­ary, mean­ing their kits are typ­ic­ally born in the spring.

After the con­stable took the photo of the fox, How­ell said, the animal ran into the woods. With cookout and camp­ing sea­son start­ing in Alberta, How­ell said, it’s pos­sible the fox won’t be the only clever animal try­ing to sneak off with large amounts of pic­nic food. Though per­haps oth­ers will be less auda­cious.

“We hope every­one is kick­ing off BBQ sea­son safely!” the police depart­ment’s post ended.

Source: Hot dog bandit fox snapped by cops as ‘red-haired suspect’ is caught with mouthful – Daily Star

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