Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction:

Police rushed out to an emergency call after a man mistook a black binbag in his sitting room for a wolf.

Drunken Lawrence Eaton, 50, armed himself with a knife and fled his house after seeing what appeared to him to be a wild animal crouched in the corner of his room.

The ex-lorry driver ran to a phone box and begged for police to come to help during a babbled emergency call.

Police raced to the scene with their own trained dogs ready to investigate the wolf report and came across Eaton still in the street carrying a kitchen knife.

But on searching his house they found only a black binbag and quickly realised that Eaton had got confused in his drunken state.

Instead, they charged him with possession of a knife...

From The Scotsman.

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