Police's 45-Minute Standoff With Toy Tiger Is Now A Meme

On Saturday night, a comedy of errors ensued in Scotland when a nervous farmer called the police about a tiger on his farm. As it turned out, however, after engaging in a 45-minute standoff with the 'tiger', the police realised it was nothing but a stuffed toy. The picture of the stuffed tiger has now become a hit meme on Indian Twitter. We compiled the best memes on it for you to enjoy:

A very apt question
 

45 minutes? Like, it took 45 minutes for someone to say "sir, hil nahi raha bilkul vaise"? https://t.co/VXc592gScL

- Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) February 8, 2018

45-minute standoff with tiger ends when police realise it's a stuffed toyhttps://t.co/85cf8JllBW pic.twitter.com/uxDdDPy6qA

- NDTV (@ndtv) February 8, 2018

People could relate
 

me dealing with my insecurities https://t.co/w6xWJXao83

- Ahmer Naqvi (@karachikhatmal) February 8, 2018

You vs. Your worries. https://t.co/QiWfPW5FeO

- Neeraj Thakur (@NeerajT4) February 8, 2018

Me overthinking: https://t.co/rHeHrjiPBP

- Parhlo (@parhlo) February 8, 2018

And some people saw it as a metaphor
 

So much defines India of 2018.
Attacking dummy Tigers while the real threat lies elsewhere https://t.co/rbWbglg0yN

- Abhijeet (@abhic4ever) February 8, 2018

Many Bollywood references followed
 

Padmaavat controversy in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/NWo9e15vbz

- Bollywood Gandu (@BollywoodGandu) February 8, 2018

It took 45 minutes to realised sir ye tiger to zinda ni h https://t.co/y9Rr6RT1dp

- Garima Jain (@Jain_Garima27) February 8, 2018

tiger standoff's new movie is coming out right https://t.co/qlVsR28zvc

- jugal (@joogasama) February 8, 2018

It took 45 minutes to realised sir ye tiger to zinda ni h https://t.co/y9Rr6RT1dp

- Garima Jain (@Jain_Garima27) February 8, 2018

The case of mistaken identities took place in Aberdeenshire.

The pictures of the tiger went viral after they were shared by a Facebook page 'UK Cop Humour'
 

The North East Police Division said in their Facebook post that it was a 'false call' made with 'genuine good intent' and not as a prank.

"Unusual as the call may have seemed, any call reporting a potential danger to the public has to be taken seriously and efforts were made to verify the sighting as soon as possible, including starting to make contact with the nearest wildlife park to make sure they did not have an escapee," said Inspector George Cordiner.