It’s about as Canadian a traffic tie-up as you can get.
West Vancouver police were driving down 15th Street at Bellevue Avenue just after 7 a.m. when they saw someone following close behind a furry brown lump on the road.
“Then we realized it was a beaver and oh my god, what’s a beaver doing there?” said Const. Jeff Palmer, West Vancouver Police Department spokesman.
Other officers started redirecting traffic while Palmer and nearby citizens tried to shoo the rodent to nearby John Lawson Park, where there is a stream and pond where beavers are known to hang out.
“We started beaver herding. He wasn’t super eager to go,” Palmer said.
Palmer put the word out on social media and quickly found his smartphone “blowing up” with social media alerts as the story spread around the Lower Mainland and beyond.
“People love that national symbol there,” he said.
