Cop Pulls April Fools Prank With His Drug Sniffing Cat – Video

 

Salina City Police Department Chief Eric Pratt had pulled over a speeding vehicle for doing 91mph in an 80mph hour zone on April 1 when he decided to carry out the practical joke. Bodycam video, filmed by Pratt, shows the officer asking for the driver’s license and registration before noting an ‘odor’ coming from the car.

He then told the motorist, and his three passengers, that he was going to deploy his drugs-sniffing cat to search for controlled substances.

‘I’m with the feline unit, the Salina Police Department’s Feline Unit and I do have my feline partner with me,’ Pratt said on the video posted to the Salina City Police Department Facebook page.

‘So what I’m going to do, I’m going to deploy my cat around the outside of your vehicle. If the cat indicates the odor of a controlled substance, we’re going to go from there, OK? Does that make sense to you?’

The citizens looked, perhaps unsurprisingly, confused.

But Pratt went onto explain that his cat – Officer Froo Froo – had been on the force for eight years and would meow three times in a row if she detected the presence of marijuana, cocaine, or any other controlled substances.

The police chief disappeared back to his car and returned a moment later – with his black and white cat in his arms.

Pratt and Officer Froo Froo completed a lap around the car as the feline ‘inspected’ the vehicle.

He then informed one of the passengers that the cat had seemed particularly interested in her.

‘Do you have anything you shouldn’t have?’ he asked the woman, who confirmed she did not.

At this point, Pratt could not keep the joke going any longer.

‘You guys, I can’t keep playing with you,’ he told them. ‘This is an April Fools’ joke.

The driver and passengers looked stunned before bursting into laughter.

‘I’ve been wanting to do this for a while,’ he told them. ‘I’m sorry I had to try it. Do you forgive me?’

‘I don’t know yet!’ the motorist joked.

Pratt, who used to run the department’s canine unit, let the driver off with a warning for speeding, saying; ‘if you’ll slow down for me and don’t make a complaint to my city, we’ll call it good.’