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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 10:33 AM Jan 2018

6 stories about truly incompetent cops

http://www.cracked.com/article_25287_6-insane-law-enforcement-stories-that-are-100-percent-true.html

6.
British police had a black suspect and wanted to do a police line-up.
The problem? They didn't have enough black men for a line-up.
The solution? Black-face.
The case was thrown out in court.



5.
Time and time again irish police caught a polish guy named Prawo Jazdy for traffic-violations.
They didn't realize that the words "Prawo Jazdy" on the polish driver's license mean "driver's license".



4.
A japanese customs agent smuggled Marijuana into a traveler's bag... because he wanted to train his drug-sniffing dog.
Except that the dog didn't find it.



3.
Dutch police found a huge Marijuana-farm of 47,000 plants.
They were halfway done destroying everything when a scientist showed up: This was actually an experiment for cultivating hemp for fabrics and the breeds were specifically chosen because they contained next to no THC.



2.
A cop in California went to an Elementary-school to talk to the kids about drugs.
He left a fully loaded AR-15 on his motorbike.
Kids played with it and it went off.
Nobody was killed but some kids were hurt by the concrete-shrapnel.



1.
In the 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) was afraid that the gay community would infiltrate the Navy.
Their investigators in Chicago soon found a recurring phrase: People claimed to be "friends of Dorothy" (which was code for "being gay", but the NIS didn't realize that).
By golly!
The gays have a whole secret network! And they are all connected to this mysterious Dorothy!
The NIS started a city-wide man-hunt for Dorothy.
The NIS interrogated people and told them that they know who Dorothy is.
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