The chaotic-good corvid gained notoriety in 2016 for tampering with a crime scene in Vancouver, British Columbia. A man allegedly set a car on fire and was threatening law enforcement with a knife. After the man was arrested, Canuck, who was reportedly observing the incident from the flaming car, snatched up the knife with his beak.
“A cop chased it for about 15 to 20 feet [5 to 6 metres], and then the crow dropped it and took off,” Vancouver Courier reporter Mike Howell told the CBC at the time. “In my 20-plus years reporting from crime scenes, I’ve never seen anything like that crow trying to take a knife.