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Mistaken Identity

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By News of the Weird

Published August 17, 2023

Mistaken Identity

A walker out for a stroll in Wickham, Australia, in early January came across what they thought was a dead body clothed in a tracksuit, according to ABC News.

Police cordoned off the area and began an investigation, but later concluded that the remains belonged to a cow.

Roeburne Police Sgt. Dale Harmer voiced his frustration: "It has caused police to use an entire day and three police officers guarding a scene for something which was never a human in the first place."

And what a waste of a perfectly fine tracksuit. [ABC News, 1/10/2023]