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You wouldn't, but someone would. Cops get called all the time for out-of-the-ordinary things that you'd not even think of calling for.

Power failures, parked cars, loose animals, strange kids, balloons, weather, etc.

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For a laugh I used to read the local paper which published a log of police calls, they were along the lines of "A dead racoon was reported on Oxbow Rd. When officers investigated they found it was a hat."

Loose animals can be a danger to traffic, and the police should be called.

I've done this when a horse had escaped from a field at the edge of a village.

And as unfortunate as it is, some people see black people running in their neighborhood as a danger to society and will call the police (or in some cases will just hunt them down and kill the person themselves https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-judge-sentences-three...)

Very poor flamebait...

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