VIDEO: Crow Shatters Woman's Windshield In Douglas County
By Rebekah Gonzalez
April 9, 2021
A Douglas County woman came out of a restaurant in Castle Rock to find her windshield smashed and a large rock near the car.
"I just assumed somebody had maybe come by and threw a rock at it, I was curious as to why anybody would do that in broad daylight," the woman, Krista Keller, told FOX31.
So she decided to call the Castle Rock Police Department.
After a few days of investigating and checking nearby surveillance cameras, they found the suspect.
“It was probably one of the funniest calls I’ve ever received. He said I have good news bad news. The good news is we found out who did it," said Keller. "The bad news they are only 10 inches tall."
When officers pulled the surveillance video, the culprit was found to be... a crow?! Watch as it drops the rock mid-flight, landing square on the windshield before bouncing to the hood of the car.
— Castle Rock Police (@CRPoliceCO) April 7, 2021
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In a slowed down surveillance video, a crow can be seen flying over Keller's car and dropping a large rock directly onto her windshield.
“My husband and I were pleasantly surprised that rather than it being an act of vandalism, it really turned out to be a lighthearted story,” said Keller. “With all the craziness in the world right now, it’s fun to get a chuckle out of it.”
Officers at Castle Rock PD also had a lot of fun with the freak incident.
“A lot of puns were flying around … no pun intended," Castle Rock PD's public information officer, Taylor Temby told FOX31. "It was actually one of my commanders that said ‘no harm no fowl. Well, maybe a little harm from a little fowl."
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