{"id":506080,"date":"2026-07-02T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506080\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:12:15","slug":"how-are-you-mate-uk-police-find-man-hiding-with-a-bag-on-his-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/506080\/","title":{"rendered":"‘How are you mate?’: UK police find man hiding with a bag on his head"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wanted man in the UK put a bag over his head in a failed attempt to hide from police.<\/p>\n

A video of the arrest in St Albans, just north of London, was shared by the Hertfordshire Constabulary on social media. <\/p>\n

The police bodycam footage, which has elevator-style music in the background, opened with a woman answering the door to an officer. <\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police were looking for a wanted person, when they asked to enter the property. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

He asked the woman if a man the police were looking for was at the house, to which she replied, “No.”<\/p>\n

The officer asks: “Can we come in and have a look?” <\/p>\n

Entering the house, the officer asked if the man had been around at all. <\/p>\n

The video then cuts to the officer going into a room, where he spots a piece of furniture with a bed and a bag on it. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The officer noticed a bag on top of a piece of furniture. (Source: Sunday)<\/p>\n

He moves the bag aside to find a man’s head under it, using a duvet to hide the rest of his body. <\/p>\n

“Hello, how are you, mate?” the officer bellowed before chuckling. <\/p>\n

The hiding man replies, “alright”, before getting up to be handcuffed. <\/p>\n

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On moving the bag, the officer found there was a man hidden underneath. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

In its caption on Instagram, Hertfordshire Constabulary said: “When life gets intense\u2026 go incognito\u2026 but we will still find you.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve seen some interesting attempts to avoid detection over the years. Putting a bag over your head can now be added to the list.<\/p>\n

“Please don\u2019t put a bag over your head when hiding from us, it\u2019s not safe (just in case you were thinking about it).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wanted man in the UK put a bag over his head in a failed attempt to hide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-506080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}