By Chris and Rosie
A resident of Porcupine Plain in Canada is out some fence posts thanks to thieves.
The unnamed rural resident has a pile of fence posts waiting to be put up and when he went to start the job, they were missing from his property. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called to investigate.
What they found was amusing. The bandits behind the heist were beavers that took the posts to build a dam! The police noted in a statement that “A beaver – or beavers – helped themselves to the stash of posts and used them to help build a dam. I tried locating said beavers but they were GOA [gone on arrival].”
The ultimate Canadian heist: Mounties trace stolen lumber to beaver dam
If there’s been a more Canadian theft lately, we certainly haven’t heard about it.
Mounties in Porcupine Plain, a town in east-central Saskatchewan, were notified on May 7 about a theft in a rural area.
Someone had left a number of posts piled on a property that they planned on fencing, but the posts went missing.
Officers began investigating the theft, but had no leads until the posts were spotted in a nearby waterway.
“The stolen posts were located in a beaver dam,” explained Cst. Conrad Rickards.
“A beaver – or beavers – helped themselves to the stash of posts and used them to help build a dam.”
By Ryan Young
A theft investigation in the Porcupine Plain area had a dam good ending.
On May 7th, Porcupine Plain RCMP received a complaint about the theft of some fence posts from a rural property.
The capers were quickly uncovered when the stolen posts were found in a beaver dam on a nearby waterway.
According to the officers, a beaver or beavers responsible were gone on arrival.
None of the bucktoothed bandits will face charges and the RCMP has now closed this extremely Canadian case.
Bucktooth bandits : Police trace stolen lumber to beaver dam
A beaver dam containing fence posts taken from a nearby property in Porcupine Plain, Sask., is shown in this undated handout photo. RCMP officers from the Porcupine Plain detachment were called to a rural area on Friday to investigate a theft of posts that had been piled on a property for fencing. The thief was soon revealed to have sharp teeth, fur, and a broad tail. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, RCMP MANDATORY CREDIT May 11, 2021 - 4:22 PM
PORCUPINE PLAIN, Sask. - Mounties in east-central Saskatchewan have cracked what they are calling an extremely Canadian case.