Police Called In To Deal With "Armed" Cat In Tree

When police officers in Newport, Oregon were called in to deal with a cat supposedly armed with an assault rifle perched in a tree they took the report seriously for some reason.

Maybe they know something about a new line of cat-sized assault rifles I don't know about, or perhaps they were trying to find footage for their bodycam blooper reel.

Either way- they issued a "verbal warning" to the cat, who was actually armed with a stick:

-Via Boing Boing