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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.

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?

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

Everyone involved in this including the police are civilians

Civilians get arrested for incompetence all the time.