Caught red-handed! 'Thief' hedgehog 'tries to flee from police' with dozens of fresh cherries on its spines
- Cute hedgehog was spotted 'stealing' cherries by eating them off the ground
- So policemen put dozens more on its spines so 'it could take a doggy bag home'
- Funny footage shows the tiny animal 'attempting to escape the station' in China
- But all cherries rolled off its back before it could make its way out of the yard
This hedgehog may be the cutest 'criminal' you've seen.
A trending social media video shows the tiny animal seemingly trying to escape from a police station in eastern China with dozens of cherries on its spines.
Police officers in the city of Xuancheng said they 'caught the suspected thief' as it was stealing the fruit in its courtyard Friday morning.
Not your usual cherry picker! The tiny animal slowly makes its way out of the police station in Xuancheng, eastern China, last Friday with dozens of ripe cherries stuck on its back
Xuancheng police joked on Twitter-like Weibo that the 'fugitive' had completely ignored officers' 'warning' after being spotted eating cherries off the ground.
One officer, named Lin Yang, told BJ News that he and his colleagues saw the hedgehog gorging on the ripe fruit and found it 'so cute'.
Therefore they picked some more cherries from the trees and gave them to the animal.
'But, with us around, it was too scared to eat,' officer Lin told the media outlet.
So cute it's criminal! Police said said they had 'caught the suspected thief' as it was stealing the fruit in its courtyard. So they picked some more cherries from the trees and gave them to it
Police officers ended up putting the cherries on the animal's back so 'it could take a doggy bag home'.
They filmed the footage which say said showed the animal 'fleeing to escape punishment'.
All of the cherries rolled off the hedgehog's back before the animal could make its way out of the station, officers added.
The video and pictures have gone viral in China since police released them on Friday.
One officer, named Lin Yang, said he and his colleagues saw the hedgehog found it 'so cute'
A trending topic has been set up on Weibo and has been viewed more than 140 million times as of writing.
Amused by the clip, web users have left more than 15,000 comments.
One of them gushed: 'The little hedgehog is too adorable.'
Another wrote a reply from the animal's perspective: 'I have been very careful and stopped after taking every step. Why [do the cherries] keep falling? How can I explain this to my wife when I get back home?'
A third web user chimed in: 'Every time a cherry falls down, [it] would stop and hesitate if it should pick it up and eat it.'
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