Tiger sculpture in Kent sparks armed police response
Armed police and a helicopter were scrambled to reports of a tiger on the loose in the countryside - only to find the wild animal was a life-size model.
"I took them down to the sculpture where they all had a good laugh and took a lot of photographs," artist Juliet Simpson, 85, said.Told by a neighbour that police were investigating reports of a loose big cat, Mrs Simpson set off up the lane near her home. "It looks quite real, it's meant to look real and it is about 30 metres from the footpath so you can't see it very closely."The wire and resin artwork has been in place in woodlands near a public path for at least 20 years and is now"rather dilapidated", she said.
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