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Police bark like dogs to scare suspects into surrendering

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“Come on, there’s a good criminal! Good boy! Now sit. On the ground. In these handcuffs.”

In a scene ripped straight out of Police Academy 7: Michael Winslow is the Only Reason Anyone Still Watches These Movies, a group of New Haven, Conn. officers scared two suspects into surrendering by barking like dogs.

WFSB 3 Connecticut reports that the police resorted to this canine chicanery after Kwame Wells-Jordan and Norman Boone, suspected of car theft, fled during a standoff.

The suspects led officers on a chase throughout the city before police got a tipoff that two masked men had been spotted entering a multi-family housing unit with a vacant first floor.

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During negotiations, police threatened to release the hounds if the men refused to exit the premises. Only one minor complication: the K9 unit wasn’t available.

But someone clearly trained them well. Forced to use their wits, a chorus of officers began barking like a pack of angry dogs. Their efforts proved so effective that the scared suspects immediately ran out of the house and gave themselves up.

Well, either that, or the suspects had previously failed that part of the life exam which asks us to distinguish between dog and human voices.

The men were subsequently charged with burglary and theft of a motor vehicle. If convicted, they may want to play down how they were arrested in the prison cafeteria or risk being followed by a symphony of arfs for the remainder of their lives.

But we shouldn’t be too hard on these two. After all, the threat of a K9 attack is pretty scary. Less impressive are the 19 suspects who followed a false trail of “Free Beer” to land in the trap set by police in Derbyshire, England.

Police sent letters from a false marketing company that informed each suspect he’d won a free case of delicious beer. The catch: they had to call a number to set up free delivery, a number that dialed into police headquarters and led officers straight to their front door.

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Even Homer Simpson wouldn’t be this gullible and he’s a cartoon!