German Humour ....

Who said that the Germans don't have a sense of humour?  Yes I know that we have highlighted Henning Wehn as a funny German (but he's lived here for years,  and has been infected with non German thoughts). But racially, the land of Vorsprung Durch Technik is not renowned for 'having a larf' .... especially their police force.

But we may have to review that opinion after German police announced that they are trialling the use of  vultures that can find hidden corpses from  the air .... using their very keen sense of smell to locate rotting flesh. The three guinea pigs are Sherlock, Miss Marple and Columbo but there are a few problems to overcome ...

• Sherlock sometimes prefers to hunt on foot, rather than scan the ground from above, which kinda slows him down. 
• The Vultures are just as likely to stop for dead rabbits as humans.  
• There is a risk that a vulture could start pecking at a dead body and eat the evidence.

Bird Brained Detectives -
Sherlock, Miss Marple and Columbo  

Apparently there is interest in the scheme around the world, but it will never be adopted in the Middle East, where all vultures are classed as Israeli spies   .....