A Thing or Two:
Police in Ireland deemed it necessary to assure people that there was not someone wearing a Dr. Seuss “Cat in the Hat” costume stalking people in the streets of several counties at night, despite photographic evidence of such spreading online with claims of police investigations.
The photos are A.I.-generated, they said — it was a hoax, and there were no such investigations. “To be clear,” Garda in Wexford said, “the Cat in the Hat was not in your driveway while you were out and he is not currently hiding out in Curracloe.”
A few weeks later in Canada, police in West Kelowna, B.C., deemed it necessary to announce that yes, they were looking for someone stalking the streets at night: security cameras got video of someone in a C-in-the-H costume chasing a teenage girl. They released a still shot of the cat ...er, man, in hopes someone else can supply more video to help identify him.
A B.C. RCMP spokesman acknowledged that they were aware of the online hoax, and theorize their suspect may have been inspired by news reports of that trending hoax.
The Canadian Press notes that teens in Tennessee and Colorado have been arrested for harassment for making specific Cat in the Hat threats in online posts as part of that trend. (RC/Belfast Live, Canadian Press) ...There isn’t a Cat. / The police said so, too. / Now there IS one! / Fish, what should we do?
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