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Dopey gardeners conned into growing cannabis
Elderly gardeners in Bulgaria have been conned into growing cannabis for drug dealers who told them the plants were 'a new type of tomato' and promised £50 per plant. The unintentional green-fingered criminals include an 82-year-old woman who now faces eight years in jail.
Sentence: Case pending.
Man arrested in his own handcuffs
A man has been arrested on drugs charges after waving down police while already wearing his own handcuffs. The 25-year-old said he'd allowed himself to be cuffed by a woman and had assumed they were fake and easy to take off. They weren't. But before police released him they patted him down and found a hypodermic needle and various pills.
Sentence: Held on $2,150 bail
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No such thing as a free meal
A trio of diners who tried to flee a US restaurant without paying have been caught -- after accidentally leaving their purses behind. Shortly after doing a runner, one of the women returned to Waffle House restaurant and asked for her purse back. Police say the purses contained a selection of identifying documents.
Sentence: No charges filed yet.
Laws were alien to woman
Australian traffic cops heard an unusual excuse when they tried to pull over a woman for dangerous driving, she told them she was an alien from another world and earth laws didn't apply to her. Asked to give her name she added that her "universal name" wasn't recognised here and drove off with the officer's arm caught in her window.
Sentence: Court case pending.
Hit and splash
A woman who was being arrested in California for trying to run over a man with her car, then proceeded to hurl a bag of urine at cops. 39-year-old Monica Avila had gone to the house of her ex-boyfriend and driven at him when he came out to talk to her. When cops later puller over her car he removed her urostomy bag and threw it at them.
Sentence: Charged with attempted murder.
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Getting nicked, there's an app for that
A crook was arrested shortly after grabbing an iPhone from a woman on a street in San Francisco, because he didn't know she was testing a GPS tracking program. The woman had been walking around so her boss could see how accurately the new app tracked her movement. When the phone was stolen police were given its live location details and made the arrest within 10 minutes.
Sentence: Charged with grand theft and possession of stolen property.
