Police Suspect That Redditor Is A Child Predator After Using Binoculars To Watch Birds Next To A School

"It also didn't help that I didn't bring along my bird book so I couldn't show them that as some evidence."

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• Published in Interesting
• November 24, 2022

Commonly seen perches on tall trees, the Australian Hobby is a small falcon that sometimes likes to engage in high-speed chases. Its diet consists of bats, small birds, and flying insects.

The Australian Hobby uses its speed to catch prey after perching on top of tall trees and swooping down to capture it. They are also known to hunt by low-fast flight or high quartering. 

They are capable of hunting by night with the help of artificial light and, of course, during the day, dusk or dawn. They may be found in areas with trees throughout the South of Australia. 

They can also reside along the coast or in urban areas like the Adelaide parklands. The Australian Hobby is generally resident, but some immigrate to the north in winter.

A Redditor who goes by the username u/ShereKhanage made a post on the r/tifu subReddit where he explained how he almost got arrested by the cops for watching an Australian Hobby with binoculars next to a school. The user found himself in a pretty weird situation and had to find a way to explain himself.

Scroll down to check out the full Reddit post, and scroll a little further to read the comments from the original post. 

Here's the original post by Reddit user u/ShereKhanage:

OP looked quite suspicious with his binoculars.

Two cops confronted OP about what exactly he was doing.

OP didn't have anything to prove his claims to the cops.

After investigating further, the cops decided to let OP go and explained how suspicious what he was doing looked.

Basically don't it anywhere near a school.

Known as the little falcon, the Australian hobby (Falco longipennis) is one of six Australian members of the Falconidae family.

"An Australian Hobby (Falco longipennis) with what I presume is an escapee pet Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) for lunch"

It is comparatively slender, long-winged, and smaller compared to other falcons.

A darker plumage is found in humid areas and a lighter plumage in drier ones, depending on sex, age, and environment.

Here's how the Reddit community reacted to u/ShereKhanage's post:

Hobbies that don't involve looking suspicious and getting questioned by the cops.

It would be a pretty good excuse to get out of that situation.

You can't use this excuse if you don't actually have that knowledge.

It will eventually come in handy in the future.

Looking doesn't mean you are committing a crime.

Sounds like something straight out of a comedy short.

OP gave some people ideas.

Wikipedia saves the day once again!

That's even harder to explain.

How can you even be both?

Op will now think twice before pulling his binoculars out. It's good to see cops keeping a close eye on schoolchildren and protecting them from potential creeps.

This time it was a false alarm, but real threats are still out there. If you enjoyed reading this, make sure to check out similar content on our platform.

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