Nut Pilferers Anonymous

July 9, 2015 • 4:06 pm

by Grania

Cops with a sense of humor is a real thing sometimes. I occasionally browse through the Irish police Twitter account An Garda Síochána (I’m not going to try to explain how to pronounce it, just say “The Guards”) because it can be damn funny on an otherwise gloomy morning when you are stuck in traffic.

It seems that in Michigan, they have a sense of humor too.

The PuffleHo reports that around $128,000.00 of nuts have been stolen and the Shelby Township Police Department used this in their post to ask for public assistance.

I bet the real criminal won’t be nearly as whiskery.

Hat-tip: @OrAroundTen

15 thoughts on “Nut Pilferers Anonymous”

  2. If an animal that size can get a bag of walnuts out of PCC’s lab without leaving a trace in a couple of minutes, they can do anything!

  3. There are advantages and disadvantages to every place we live. However, at this location in southwest Iowa I can never say stuck in traffic because there is none. Certainly would stop for squirrels.

  4. Irish pronunciation is not easy. An, is basically pronounced like “ahn” with a short a sound. Garda is pronounced just like it looks.

    Síochána is basically shee han a. I had to look this up on a site that lets you enter the Irish word and then it synthesizes the voice. I tried to learn a bit of Irish but it takes more effort than I am willing to put in as there are not a lot of opportunities to use it.

    1. I thought the trick was to consume enough uisce beatha that you think you can understand anybody, including Irish speakers.

      Of course if you hear squirrels squeak “nuts!” it may be one too many…

          1. An Gardaí and An Gadai. The guard and the thief

            Less said about peig sayers and An Modh Coinniolach

          2. The ‘O’ in Síochána is slightly pronounced so it’s more like SHE-uh CAWn ah.

            Also the guard and the thief should be An Garda and An Gadai. Gardaí is plural. I’m taking off my pedantic Pat mask now.

  5. I bet the real criminal won’t be nearly as whiskery.

    Probably not, unless the perpetrators are Yoopers sweeping down over the Mackinac Bridge to boost the nuts, then maybe.

    1. And here it is over an hour later from when I first clicked on that scilly link of yours.

      Thanks.

    2. Quoted (message on some advertisement posters gone missing):

      [Theft victim Chris] would like to be able to circulate his posters so aspiring captains can avail themselves of his offer and we would like to circulate our presence so a suspect can avail themselves of the right to free and independent legal advice that comes with an interview under caution.

      If you know the whereabouts of Chris’s boxes of posters (pictured) or who has them please let us know at St Mary’s Police Station. If the prospect of speaking with us is more than you can bear then call Crimstoppers on 0800 555111.

      This post was brought to you by the vastly underused word “avail”.

      Sgt Colin Taylor

    3. “What is the collective term for all of you?”

      “An Isoplod of Scilly police officers”

      Hahaha. Yes, that page is great. I have some friends in Cornwall (right at the pointy end, it’s a beautiful part of the world) and I think that they’d like this.

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