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2016/05/11 09:27:10
Subject: Sheepish police blur faces of lambs at centre of alleged rustling
West Midlands Police said the lambs identity was "protected due to their age and vulnerability"
Social media sites have been rammed with confusion after police released blurred images of victims of crime - who happened to be sheep.
The lambs' identity was "protected due to their age and vulnerability", West Midlands Police said.
The woolly passengers were spotted after they were herded into the back of a car and driven around by suspected rustlers.
But the subsequent image circulated by the force turned out to be a joke.
Nic Barlow commented on Facebook: "I wondered why the picture looked a bit woolly."
Abbas Zen said: "It would be an animal rights issue if they didn't [blur the images]."
Other people were less amused by the force's sense of fun.
"Police show criminal sense of humour as they release pictures of stolen sheep with pixelated faces," tweeted Solene Deplanche.
Officers said three suspected sheep rustlers found in the car near Hob Moor Road, Yardley in Birmingham were rounded up in nearby gardens - with one up a tree and another penned in a conservatory.
The men aged 22, 27, and 28, were arrested on suspicion of theft, while police traced owners of the sheep.
Jokes aside, officers said the lambs were unhurt and have been temporarily re-homed on a farm in Sheldon.
Analysis: A sheepish decision?
By Dominic Casciani, BBC News home affairs correspondent
British police have guidelines over what information they reveal about victims of crime - but was there a bit of woolly thinking in the West Midlands force after journalists were given an image obscuring the faces of allegedly-rustled lambs?
The Data Protection Act and Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, which covers family and private life, require the police to protect personal information unless there is a good reason to release it.
My mint sources tell me that an officer in the case blurred the image as a joke.
He presumably concluded he had an obligation under the Ewe-ropean Convention on Eweman Rights to hide the poor little lambs' faces.
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2016/05/11 10:18:24
Subject: Sheepish police blur faces of lambs at centre of alleged rustling
Bad sheep bad sheep whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
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2016/05/11 13:36:46
Subject: Re:Sheepish police blur faces of lambs at centre of alleged rustling
Ah....nice.....you all to have the same jokes we have about sheep herders/livestock. Are they're boots open wide at the top?
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2016/05/11 16:20:14
Subject: Sheepish police blur faces of lambs at centre of alleged rustling
hotsauceman1 wrote: Guys, this isn't funny. They probably stole some welshamns wife .
There's a sort of dance one does first before leaping to that conclusion. We did not need the wool pull from our eyes yet
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2016/05/11 17:04:47
Subject: Sheepish police blur faces of lambs at centre of alleged rustling
Breotan wrote: Sorry about that wooly video. I didn't mean to be such a wet blanket. I was just bleating for attention from ewe.
Seeing the safe return of the lambs gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling.
Was there a pig around?
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2016/05/11 17:13:59
Subject: Sheepish police blur faces of lambs at centre of alleged rustling
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