The police should take a leaf from Corporal Carrot's book, "[...] a number of offences of murder by means of a blunt instrument, to whit, a dragon, and many fur

The police should take a leaf from Corporal Carrot's book, "[...] a number of offences of murder by means of a blunt instrument, to whit, a dragon, and many further offences of generalized abetting [...]" and prosecute these non-pranks as "assault with a deadly weapon".