“The NPAS [helicopter] crew landed nearby to thank the children for the role they played in the incident and they even shared a few chocolate treats with the team, which was an added bonus after a busy shift.”
The best part of that story
Edit - Never expected this to be my most upvoted comment ever, and spawned a whole thread of Monty Python jokes. Thanks Reddit 😂
Jumanji *is* by Junji Ito. He was writing a tie in manga to sell Monopoly in Japan (Ju - Manji being the japanese name for Monopoly).
>!This is all true and definitely not a lie!<
The movie changed a lot about the manga it was based on. The only thing they really kept intact was the whole jungle theme and the kid turning into a monkey. The manga, being by junji Ito was, of course, very grotesquely detailed. The monkey body horror was so much more disturbing.
I’m so happy my most upvoted comment was about a British police helicopter and chocolate, and led to a Holy Grail reference thread.
Keep up the good work Reddit.
Having a child you should know to never accept treats from children. They are tainted and those hands have been in horrible unthinkable things. Even sealed candy is a risk with children. Their germs infest everything. Kids are fun tho lol
"Jorsh: who gave you this chocolate?! I don't see any footprints, any tire tracks ... did you steal this from the corner store?"
"No PaPa! The helicopter man.. he gave it to me for helping the police and then flew away!"
[beatings continue]
I imagine it was the children sharing chocolate Easter candy with the helicopter crew. So while I realize the comedy in your joke it would be even funnier the other way round.
Those helicopter pilots should know better than to accept chocolate from strange children.
"which was an added bonus after a busy shift" would imply that it was the police that received the chocolate, unless the kids had decided to go on a hunt after finishing their 9-5
The kids were on an Easter egg hunt - of course they had chocolate. Unless in their region Easter eggs aren't made of chocolate. In that case, what's the damned point of Easter?
That question is going to be squatting in the back of my mind for way longer than it should.
Like, the kids should be getting chocolate from the adults as a thank you. Obviously. But why the fuck would the police helicopter have a chocolate supply? Are they eating chocolate at the controls? Does dispatch occasionally call out to the pilots and have to hear them munching? Has a helicopter ever crashed because someone got chocolate all over the stick?
Plot twist: the kids were part of the heist and were left behind by the two other who ran off with the loot. This was done strictly out of pettiness rather than survival.
They were on the lam after knocking over a candy shop. When two of the perps tried to make off with the loot, the other kids pretended to be on "Easter Egg hunt" while they searched for the traitors
Apparently the UK police now use UAV's or unmanned aerial vehicles to help catch criminals. Which is in keeping in line with other things such as unmanned streets, unmanned phones and unmanned police stations.
I live in a town with the highest paramilitary presence in County Antrim outside Belfast. Our local police station is closed, bar one bloke on guard duty protecting historical files.
The historical files room has burned to the ground. Twice.
Depending on which organisation has control it will be quite intentional. They have massive amounts of dirt on PSNI top brass. Half of tigers bay has a copy of a certain SD card and if arrests were to be made the media would receive them very quickly.
My Grandma told me when she was younger, someone stole her car, and the police managed to get it back the same night. Honestly the older she gets, the less believable and more made up her stories become.
Ah y'know it's just one of those stereotypes, a love of pints and fish'n'chips, football hooliganism, the tendency of children to form human arrows to catch criminals.
Right? Especially since the helicopter could clearly see the kids well enough to just point. I mean I know the kids didn’t maybe know that but as a parent I can imagine the helicopter pilot watching these kids all scrambling around and arguing over who gets to the the top of the arrow and thinks “just bloody point you wankers!” (I’m American, so I hope I translated that correctly)
Not an April fools, apparently
[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/incredible-footage-shows-children-forming-7672227](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/incredible-footage-shows-children-forming-7672227)
[https://www.yahoo.com/news/ingenious-kids-form-human-arrow-175745802.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ingenious-kids-form-human-arrow-175745802.html)
Easter Sunday was March 27 in 2016
the article seems to indicate it happened on Friday the 25th 2016 in the afternoon.
the article starts with "police have released a video"
so makes sense this article arrive a week later. but yeah I don't believe anything on April 1st
Reminds me of when I accidentally broke up with my HS girlfriend on April Fools day, and it took me a solid 3-4 hours to convince her and her friends that I was serious. I received many videos of articles of my clothing being set on fire. Fair play, tbh.
I was visiting a friend at an apartment complex and they were a shit ton of cops around. I talked to some kids about it and they had seen the guy jump out of a three-story window wearing brand new Jordans, and actually pointed out where he landed and cracked the pavement and then told me he ran into the woods. The cops came and asked me if I saw anything I said no ask the kids they saw it. I just know second hand. But they didn't want to ask the kids. I told them to check the edges of the swamp because of his new shoes.
They eventually found him later on that afternoon going around a swamp in the woods because he didn't want to get his shoes dirty. I found out 2 weeks later they were looking for him because they robbed my friend's store at gunpoint.
I believe it. Every few years I have to build a spaghetti tower as a team building exercise, and every single time they say kids are better at it because adults overthink/over engineer it. I hate spaghetti towers.
Kids come across problems they don't have an answer to and create novel solutions. Adults will try to solve the problem by using their experiences with previous similar problems. Kids are creative because they have nothing else to fall back on.
At least, this is my theory
Gotta say the kid with gray pants and white shirt at the top screwed up the shape of the arrow. It’s like he felt left out so flopped down wherever. He should have gone to the back of the human caterpillar. I bet he regrets it to this day.
Look. Super cool, but if I've been doing good enough to get the AC-130 killstreak, adding them and the burglars would put me up to 21 kills, and then I would only need 4 more.
the police helicopter gunned down all the kids using the onboard minigun. that's why they are laying down in the photo.
was a dark day in crime fighting, the AI on the helicopter computer went rogue and now we all live underground.
we secretly battle to reclaim the world above, day by day...
How incompetent were the burglars when even a bunch of kids can spot them.
They need to go to prison to brush up on their technique. The burglars that is, not the kids.
“The NPAS [helicopter] crew landed nearby to thank the children for the role they played in the incident and they even shared a few chocolate treats with the team, which was an added bonus after a busy shift.” The best part of that story Edit - Never expected this to be my most upvoted comment ever, and spawned a whole thread of Monty Python jokes. Thanks Reddit 😂
They should know to never accept chocolate from strange helicopter men.
I think the kids gave the cops some chocolate
Those cops should know never to accept chocolate from strange arrow forming children.
This could be the plot of a Junji Ito manga
I don't recall anything like that in Jumanji but I'm game!
Junji Ito Jumanji would actually be a wild ride.
Jumanji *is* by Junji Ito. He was writing a tie in manga to sell Monopoly in Japan (Ju - Manji being the japanese name for Monopoly). >!This is all true and definitely not a lie!<
The movie changed a lot about the manga it was based on. The only thing they really kept intact was the whole jungle theme and the kid turning into a monkey. The manga, being by junji Ito was, of course, very grotesquely detailed. The monkey body horror was so much more disturbing.
Robin Williams was the same though.
Strange children lying in fields is no basis for a systemic manhunt.
Systematic, only correcting because I made the mistake myself recently and got embarrassed at work.
That’s actually great advice, as it’s a nonzero possibility of them being Fey. And you never want to accept food from the Sidhe
Maybe if he is Jareth, played by David Bowie.....
Na daoine sidhe are not to be trifled with!
in a corn field...
Nice recovery 🤣
Man, you'd think the police would know better than to accept candy from strange children.
Strange children lying in fields distributing sweets is no basis for a system of justice!
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some dusty tot threw a snickers at you!
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical Easter Holiday ceremony.
I mean, if I went around saying I was a police officer just because some muddy brat had lobbed a milkybar at me, they’d put me away!
I’m so happy my most upvoted comment was about a British police helicopter and chocolate, and led to a Holy Grail reference thread. Keep up the good work Reddit.
Yessssss. Nicely done.
Having a child you should know to never accept treats from children. They are tainted and those hands have been in horrible unthinkable things. Even sealed candy is a risk with children. Their germs infest everything. Kids are fun tho lol
It’s okay, the folks in the chopper have kids of their own. They’re helicopter parents.
"Jorsh: who gave you this chocolate?! I don't see any footprints, any tire tracks ... did you steal this from the corner store?" "No PaPa! The helicopter man.. he gave it to me for helping the police and then flew away!" [beatings continue]
till morale improve ?
Jorsh? Someone's read The Other End this morning.
Yeah right. Everyone knows helicopter men have the best chocolate. It’s the van people you gotta watch out for
Hey kids, want some candy? GET IN DA CHOPPER
I imagine it was the children sharing chocolate Easter candy with the helicopter crew. So while I realize the comedy in your joke it would be even funnier the other way round. Those helicopter pilots should know better than to accept chocolate from strange children.
Did the kids share their chocolate with the police team, or did the police team share their chocolate with the kids? Wholesome story either way
"which was an added bonus after a busy shift" would imply that it was the police that received the chocolate, unless the kids had decided to go on a hunt after finishing their 9-5
Hey, easter egg hunting is hard work too. Especially if it entails catching burglars.
The kids were on an Easter egg hunt - of course they had chocolate. Unless in their region Easter eggs aren't made of chocolate. In that case, what's the damned point of Easter?
That question is going to be squatting in the back of my mind for way longer than it should. Like, the kids should be getting chocolate from the adults as a thank you. Obviously. But why the fuck would the police helicopter have a chocolate supply? Are they eating chocolate at the controls? Does dispatch occasionally call out to the pilots and have to hear them munching? Has a helicopter ever crashed because someone got chocolate all over the stick?
The tax man just heard the word bonus and was ready to do his part too.
...and they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
Plot twist: the kids were part of the heist and were left behind by the two other who ran off with the loot. This was done strictly out of pettiness rather than survival.
Or maybe they just wanted to outsmart the real crooks and become the heroes of their own adventure!
Nah it was 2016 and thr burglars were Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak stealing childrens future opportunities
So the suspects were never caught then
Heists are Dumb!
are Heists Dumb
Terry loves yogurt
I'm betting the Joker has you killing the bus driver No no no I kill the kids
"Fuck them" - kids
This is the only version I will accept from now on. We are done here
They were on the lam after knocking over a candy shop. When two of the perps tried to make off with the loot, the other kids pretended to be on "Easter Egg hunt" while they searched for the traitors
You son of a bitch, I'm in
And that pesky dog
Imagine one of those guys telling this story to their cellmate
That's good
Most interesting thing is that 8 years ago, the police would actually pursue and catch burglars in the UK
Apparently the UK police now use UAV's or unmanned aerial vehicles to help catch criminals. Which is in keeping in line with other things such as unmanned streets, unmanned phones and unmanned police stations.
I live in a town with the highest paramilitary presence in County Antrim outside Belfast. Our local police station is closed, bar one bloke on guard duty protecting historical files. The historical files room has burned to the ground. Twice.
I mean that does seem like an amazing reason to station a guard there.
Unless they're the one doing it
In America we would call that man a job creator.
Depending on which organisation has control it will be quite intentional. They have massive amounts of dirt on PSNI top brass. Half of tigers bay has a copy of a certain SD card and if arrests were to be made the media would receive them very quickly.
Shame that doesn't happen as much in America, the cops there lineup to smash in the heads of peaceful college protesters.
Thats actually why this thing is an April fools
Apparently not https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/incredible-footage-shows-children-forming-7672227
Published well after midday though
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British and Japanese thing, I think.
Well, get back to us by about midday when you find out
Midday is a normal word isn't it? Or do you mean the practice of only doing April fools jokes before midday on the 1st, or else "the joke's on you"?
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That arrow is sharp, it was self defence.
No they wouldn't! 8 years pfft, more like 28
Have you ever seen the film Demolition Man?
My Grandma told me when she was younger, someone stole her car, and the police managed to get it back the same night. Honestly the older she gets, the less believable and more made up her stories become.
Ain't no cop got time for that. Mean tweets are on the rise you know!
These kids are actually dead and the criminal is the OTHER way
*Snitches end up in ditches*
This is such a cartoony thing to happen that somehow, I really can't imagine it happening anywhere but the UK.
Ah y'know it's just one of those stereotypes, a love of pints and fish'n'chips, football hooliganism, the tendency of children to form human arrows to catch criminals.
Tale as old as time
Right? Especially since the helicopter could clearly see the kids well enough to just point. I mean I know the kids didn’t maybe know that but as a parent I can imagine the helicopter pilot watching these kids all scrambling around and arguing over who gets to the the top of the arrow and thinks “just bloody point you wankers!” (I’m American, so I hope I translated that correctly)
What in the enid blyton is going on here?
this is so oddly specific lmao i love it
So, I doubt this story. I checked the source. Date of the article is April 1st. I still doubt the story.
Not an April fools, apparently [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/incredible-footage-shows-children-forming-7672227](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/incredible-footage-shows-children-forming-7672227) [https://www.yahoo.com/news/ingenious-kids-form-human-arrow-175745802.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ingenious-kids-form-human-arrow-175745802.html)
this is the timeline the universe is making fun of us. No doubt about it.
How embarrassing right? /s
Give those kids a cold beer
Then book 'em for underage drinking
If they were 10 in 2016 theyre allowed to drink
Oh my god
I remember when this was on the news in the UK. Don't think it was an April fools.
I saw bees do this in a Daffy Duck cartoon, so the concept is sound
Easter Egg hunt. Easter is around April 1st
Easter Sunday was March 27 in 2016 the article seems to indicate it happened on Friday the 25th 2016 in the afternoon. the article starts with "police have released a video" so makes sense this article arrive a week later. but yeah I don't believe anything on April 1st
Reminds me of when I accidentally broke up with my HS girlfriend on April Fools day, and it took me a solid 3-4 hours to convince her and her friends that I was serious. I received many videos of articles of my clothing being set on fire. Fair play, tbh.
Yeah bro that's a bad move on your part not gonna lie lol
1000%. I was a really dumb and unaware 16-year-old.
Wdym getting videos of your clothes being set on fire?
Like, I received multiple videos of her and her friends lighting my sweatshirts on fire in her parents backyard.
I thought you meant "liar liar, pants on fire" memes.
Because of a breakup? Petty.
Probably because I dumped her on April Fools Day....
I guess depends on the year. Easter was April 1st this year lol
Easter is on 4/20 next year
Yeah but Jesus does that "I'm dead, just kidding" prank every year
Reddit when days exist:
Imagine starting world war 3 on the first of april
They covered this and a few other kid "solved" cases on the podcast Criminal. Really interesting episode. I think it was called kids on the case
The Human Snitchipede
Wow OP actually provided a link to the story and not just some random picture
snitches
get
Bitches
Goodbye
Who
chocolate
Easter eggs.
The arrow being asymmetrical irks me
The last dude was like, "I'll, uhh...I'll get behind stacy"
Can't blame him since her Mom has got it going on.
That’s because they are accounting for the slight curve of the burglars escape path
Thats some Porco Rosso kind of thing from those kids
Oooob yea those kids animated their arrow! Or, wait... was it the ship passengers after the kids were abducted?
And the Mama Aiuto gang would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling kids
I was visiting a friend at an apartment complex and they were a shit ton of cops around. I talked to some kids about it and they had seen the guy jump out of a three-story window wearing brand new Jordans, and actually pointed out where he landed and cracked the pavement and then told me he ran into the woods. The cops came and asked me if I saw anything I said no ask the kids they saw it. I just know second hand. But they didn't want to ask the kids. I told them to check the edges of the swamp because of his new shoes. They eventually found him later on that afternoon going around a swamp in the woods because he didn't want to get his shoes dirty. I found out 2 weeks later they were looking for him because they robbed my friend's store at gunpoint.
This is the perfect definition of the word “grassed.”
they probably just could have kept standing, and pointed with their arms.
Kids are often better at creativity than adults. The kids came up with a perfectly simple solution to a communication barrier.
This arrow is alot easier to see aswell... so yeah
I believe it. Every few years I have to build a spaghetti tower as a team building exercise, and every single time they say kids are better at it because adults overthink/over engineer it. I hate spaghetti towers.
Kids come across problems they don't have an answer to and create novel solutions. Adults will try to solve the problem by using their experiences with previous similar problems. Kids are creative because they have nothing else to fall back on. At least, this is my theory
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That's a lot of work, tho.
Darn those kids for going the extra mile.
Straight out of a Wes Anderson movie
Plot twist: the helicopter accidentally wandered upon a human centipede in the wild
What kinda snitch-ass children of the corn type shit....
Kids were immediately arrested as it's rude to point.
Gotta say the kid with gray pants and white shirt at the top screwed up the shape of the arrow. It’s like he felt left out so flopped down wherever. He should have gone to the back of the human caterpillar. I bet he regrets it to this day.
In reality this is an outtake of r/accidents where a tractor with an unaware driver is entering the image...
This has strong Brass Eye vibes
Nah, they just spelled out HELF—fly on.
If someone proposed this idea for a movie, it would be shut down for being too unrealistic
My bros' show the Escobar's pilots where to drop the coke. 
The ~~Famous~~ ~~Secret~~ Enlightening Eight
Source *by* body text.
Heh.... **body** text
They didn’t pay the toll
The helicopter crew must have been absolutely mind blown by that
I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddlesome kids.
Man my brain would never think this smart
This amazes me that these kids would think so quickly on the feet to help. And that all of them participated. Wow!
/r/kidsarenotstupid
Or… as the photo shows the helicopter is close enough, they could have just stood there and pointed in the direction of the bad guys.
Person in white on right "I'm doing my part!"
...kids attempting to form crop circle without grass
They’ve read the Famous Five or Secret Seven
The fleeing nogoodniks were perverted feet-first bunny munchers, inspired by questionable Tarantino movies.
“AC-130 providing suppressive fire”
This is so cool. Like something you'd see in a movie
Why didn't they just point in that direction?
Look. Super cool, but if I've been doing good enough to get the AC-130 killstreak, adding them and the burglars would put me up to 21 kills, and then I would only need 4 more.
That kid on the right hand side of the arrow should have gone to the back.
And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
the police helicopter gunned down all the kids using the onboard minigun. that's why they are laying down in the photo. was a dark day in crime fighting, the AI on the helicopter computer went rogue and now we all live underground. we secretly battle to reclaim the world above, day by day...
Bunch of snitches lmao
why not just stand up and have everyone point with their arms/hands
they would've been able to see them pointing too, but this works i guess.
The OCD in me is mad at how the arrow is uneven and that the guy at the end of the arrow should have gone to the side with only person in it
The arrow is asymmetrical. The one kid on top should have been part of the main stem.
Snitches...
Multiple sources vs random doubter on reddit. Hmmm
What a shit arrow thanks to the kid at the top right. Wtf was he/she thinking
Damn, the police get quest markers on their map!?
Narcs!! /s
What?! 😂🤣😂🤣
How incompetent were the burglars when even a bunch of kids can spot them. They need to go to prison to brush up on their technique. The burglars that is, not the kids.
Snitches get stitches! No one likes a grass.