Stupid-Man Called Police for Dope

A Campbell River, B.C., man learned the hard way to double check phone numbers before dialing.

On Aug. 6, an RCMP officer received a call from a man seeking $100 worth of drugs.

"It quickly became apparent to the officer that the male had dialed a wrong number and a meeting was arranged," a police statement released Thursday said.Officers found a concealed weapon and they made an arrest.A 37-year-old man faces weapons charges.

Campbell River is on the east coast of Vancouver Island.

What-Ex-sheriff Pleads Guilty to Forcing women to expose breasts

A former sheriff from a rural county in northwestern Missouri has pleaded guilty to coercing eight women to expose their breasts and other areas of their bodies during law enforcement searches. Neal Wayne “Bear” Groom, who served as Worth County sheriff for eight years, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Kansas City to violating the women’s constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches.

He admitted that between May 2006 and December 2007 he coerced the women to expose parts of their bodies during purported law enforcement searches. Some of the women were photographed. The then-sheriff told the women he was checking them for injuries or evidence of drug injections. Prosecutors said Groom had no legitimate law enforcement purpose in forcing the women to expose their breasts and other areas of their bodies. Under certain circumstances, police may conduct intrusive searches when they have reasonable suspicion that a subject is concealing contraband or a weapon. Prosecutors concluded Groom was not justified in conducting his searches.

Strange-Brazilian sleeps in coffin to honor his friend

SAO PAULO — Every Friday night for 23 years, Zeli Rossi has traded his bed in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais for a coffin.

Rossi tells the G1 news website that his weekly sleeping habit became public last month when his 14-year-old grandson wrote a story about him for his school's newspaper.Rossi says he sleeps in the coffin to honor a deceased friend.Long ago, the two promised each other that whoever died first would have his casket bought by the other. Rossi's friend bought him a coffin when he mistakenly thought Rossi had died in a 1983 car crash.

Moron-Man tries to drive home using feet as brakes

ROSEVILLE, Mich.  — The feet of a 24-year-old Detroit-area man failed him as he tried to use them to brake his pickup on a busy highway.

Roseville Police Deputy Chief James Berlin said the man rolled about two miles on

Groesbeck Highway

while sticking his feet outside his truck in attempts to stop it, hitting four vehicles along the way. Berlin said the man admitted he knew the brakes weren't working but wanted to get home because he was tired and had to go to work the next day. The chief called it a case of "moronic decision-making," reported The Detroit News.

He was unable to stop the truck at a red light at the intersection of 13 Mile and Groesbeck, ran the light and hit two vehicles, Berlin said. He continued on and hit two more at another intersection, Berlin said. He said the driver was finally stopped when an officer caught up with him and told him to put the truck in park.

Why- Police enlist monkey statues in fluorescent jackets to stop speeding

Clearly not content with the outcomes of speed cameras and sleeping policemen, traffic enforcers have turned to the novel idea of playing dress-up with animal statues.Wearing police issue high-vis vests, the monkeys have been positioned along the roadside in the city of Changsha.

One installation shows a collection of stone primates huddled around a tree, glaring out at the oncoming traffic, one is carved swinging from a branch as another sits mesmerised by his feet.The law enforcers in the capital city of southern China’s Hunan Province hope that the strange statues will remind drivers to not break the law.

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