[stronglikedan]

Intent or not, disturbing the search or not, it's silly that the authorities would arrest a civilian because of their own incompetence.

[baranul]

That's the true core of the story. Was the man truly trying to mislead authorities or is it more about authorities using the man as a scapegoat to hide their incompetence.

[lukan]

They were searching for a wolf. (Not really a standard task)

They don't have total surveillance, so also rely on public information

- a citicien posts information about the location of the wolf, a picture!

- authorities adopt their search based on that picture

Where is the incompetence here?

[yongjik]

I swear, some commenters here think "the government is incompetent" is an axiom and work backward from there to fill in the details.

[amenhotep]

Everyone involved in this including the police are civilians

[computerfriend]

Civilians get arrested for incompetence all the time.