“Yes. I shot them. With my camera. So you didn’t have to hurry, you could have got them from your matching your database photos any time. Good grief, you didnt think I shot them with a gun do you…”
German police are investigating a chilli sauce to determine whether it was so spicy that it was capable of causing grievous bodily harm when used in an attack. Police took a sample of the sauce from a kebab stand in Bremen’s central train station after a kebab salesman threw it into the eyes of a [...]
Police in Cleveland say a man called 911 because he felt he was in danger – then asked the dispatcher to hold on while he made a drug deal. Police Lt. Thomas Stacho said Tuesday that Alejandro Melendez was arrested after the call and was charged with possessing cocaine. Police said Melendez called 911 late [...]
A monkey stopped morning commuters in their tracks at one Tokyo’s busiest subway stations this week, as it curiously peered down at them from its perch atop the departures and arrivals board. Monday marked the third time a monkey has been spotted in the capital this month — surprising, because the beasts usually live in [...]
Thomas Hickman drove through New Mexico, police say, until his Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo ran out of gas. Then the 55-year-old North Richland Hills man walked into a field, tied helium balloons to a gun, covered his mouth with duct tape, and shot himself in the back of the head, according to New Mexico State [...]
Police in Australia have charged a man for drink driving in a motorized wheelchair after he was found to be six times over the legal alcohol limit, local media reported on Monday. Police in the tropical northern Queensland city of Cairns said the man had a blood alcohol reading of 0.31, and was so drunk [...]
A woman who attempted to escape from jail in Sydney had to be rescued by police after she became stuck in an air conditioning duct, police said on Thursday. The 22-year-old woman had just been refused bail by a Sydney court when she attempted the escape, but then spent about an hour stuck in the [...]
Police helping a German man track down a nuisance caller discovered his tormentor for two years was a faulty card payment system in a hairdresser’s shop. The 58-year-old man in Frankfurt did not recognize the Hamburg number that kept ringing him and had it blocked. After several months, he got tired of paying for the [...]
A chimpanzee that had escaped from a Bastrop research center in March snatched a tranquilizer gun from an animal attendant, leapt from a truck bed and threatened a police officer by flailing its arms before being shot several times, according to documents released Friday. On March 12, Tony, a 140-pound, 171/2-year-old chimpanzee got out of [...]
Police in the western Canadian town of Wetaskiwin didn’t have to do much work when they arrested a drunk driver at the weekend — he had parked his car next to their offices and wandered inside. Police discovered the man as they drove by early on Saturday morning to respond to an unrelated call. Although [...]