Call of the wild: Cop uses phone to help capture strutting escapee

An unflappable Boston cop managed to wing it and outwit a large but bird-brained runaway from the Franklin Park Zoo today, luring a truant peacock back into captivity with the help of his department-issued smartphone.

Alerted by "a concerned passerby" that one of the Franklin Park Zoo's peacocks had flown the coop, a flock of Boston's finest quickly responded, only to find themselves confronted with "an extremely large, slightly intimidating, and quite beautiful, male peacock," Boston Police report.

One officer came up with an on-the-fly solution: He used his phone's browser to find a peacock mating call and began playing it, successfully luring the gullible bird "into a fenced-in yard where he waited patiently for the arrival of Boston Animal Control," police say, presumably referring to the bird, not the officer.