The Cape Cod-based department received notification about a shark that washed up on its beach and it turned out to be a massive, great white shark that died. The OPD shared pictures of its discovery on its Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon.

ORLEANS – Police on Cape Cod had to call in a tow truck to haul away a massive shark that had washed ashore a Massachusetts beach. The Orleans Police Department shared photos of the great white shark being towed away from a local beach.

A great white shark described as “giant” appeared on a Cape Cod beach, and authorities took the unusual step of calling a flatbed tow truck to remove it. The discovery was made in Orleans, Massachusetts, about a 90-mile drive southeast from Boston, and police treated the shark like a stuck car.

Several politicians and relatives, including her son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, were in attendance.

Mourners gathered at the church under a cool gray sky. Ethel Kennedy died following complications related to a stroke earlier this month.

Ethel Kennedy's funeral took place Monday on Cape Cod. The family matriarch, philanthropist and wife of assassinated former United States Attorney General and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy died Oct.