Octopus Camera Policeman

This fellow’s camera is snatched by a sneaky octopus.  He has to pretend to swap it for his speargun before the octopus releases the camera.  He got off lucky:

Octopi are clever little guys.  They are solitary creatures and learn all by themselves to be smart, no schooling for them (“too cool for school” certainly seems to apply here—how many tentacles do you have?).  They make homes from whatever is at hand:

 

No really, pretty much anything:

They also let themselves out of their tanks at aquariums regularly.  And they don’t have much trouble with jars,

or trouble scaring off predators by imitating a banded sea snake:

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