Exactly how did this burglar get busted by a cucumber? Here’s how, as reported by The Hull Daily Mail:
A dozy burglar was caught by police after having a bite out of a cucumber.
Got it yet?
You did not but this person for drinking tea suspiciously. You did? Think the court will approve? As reported by The Times of India:
Bewildered by the explanation that a man was arrested because he was drinking tea in a “suspicious manner” at a road side stall near Shivaji University in Kolhapur, the Bombay high court directed the police to back off and set aside the preventive detention proceedings against him.
So what happened?
What exactly is HRUI? You have to ask? It’s horseback riding under the influence. The Juice has blogged daily for 6.5 years, and he hasn’t come across a similar case. Driving a motorized barstool under the influence? Yup. Driving riding mowers under the influence? Many times. Anyway, as reported by 9news.com (Denver, Colorado):
Patrick Schumacher is facing charges of riding a horse while under the influence of alcohol after witnesses saw the rider and horse occasional wandering into traffic on Broadway near the school Monday afternoon [in Boulder].
Officers observed that Schumacher was slumped to his right side as he crossed streets and forced pedestrians off the sidewalk. Police pulled the horse over, and Schumacher was arrested on suspicion of riding under the influence after he was given a sobriety test.
How do you pull a horse over? But wait, it gets a little stranger still.
Police say Schumacher had a small dog in his backpack and beer in one of his saddlebags. The horse and the dog have been impounded. Schumacher is also facing a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge as well as prohibited use of weapons and a reckless endangerment charge.
Wow. Lots of charges. In case you’re wondering where he was going with his dog and his beer …
Schumacher told officers that he was traveling from Larkspur to Bryce, Utah (a 600-mile journey by car) on his horse in an effort to attend his brother’s wedding.
Schumacher said he previously lost his driver’s license, so he decided to ride his horse to Utah.
Brilliant! You’ll find the source here.
If you’re thinking “gifts” you would be wrong. As reported by The Northwest Florida Daily News (which The Juice somehow missed before):
According to the Fort Walton Beach arrest report, the couple was arguing inside of the bathroom of their residence on Windsor Lane on Dec. 8 when the husband asked the woman to leave the room so he could urinate. He threatened to urinate on his wife if she did not leave.
Oh no you didn’t.
She refused and the husband turned toward the wife and urinated on her, according to the report.
Nasty.
The wife shoved the husband and told him to stop several times then began to hit the man on the shoulder causing him to stop.
The man was charged with a misdemeanor domestic violence battery.
Here’s the source.
If you’re having success running the ball, you keep running the ball until the opposing team counters it by, say, putting more men in the box. (Yes, The Juice likes football.) But in life, going back to something that worked is not always a good idea, especially in the world of crime. Just ask this gent. As reported by The New Hampshire Union Leader:
A Plymouth man was arrested for allegedly committing two armed robberies at the same location about six weeks apart, police said Saturday.
Yup. He did.
Jason Crosby, 32, was arrested in Plymouth late Friday on two counts of armed robbery. Bail was set at $100,000, and he is slated for arraignment Monday in 9th Circuit Court in Nashua.
Crosby is accused of robbing Haffner’s Kick Stop at 215 Lowell Road on July 7 at 10:37 p.m. and again on Friday at 3:06 a.m., police said.
In the first robbery, Crosby displayed a small black semi-automatic handgun and demanded money from the clerk, authorities said. The second time, the suspect claimed to have had a weapon and again demanded money, police said.
You’ll find the source (and a mug shot) here.
Regular Juice readers know about the various ways people smuggle things into jail, many of which are NSFW. This is a new one on The Juice. As reported by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office (Florida):
Deputies have arrested a Trinity woman after she concealed suboxone strips behind stamps on envelopes and mailed them to two inmates at the Pinellas County. The inmates in turn distributed and sold the controlled substance to other Pinellas County Jail inmates. Since the investigation began on August 1, 2013, deputies intercepted a total of 11 pieces of mail containing the opiate.
Pretty clever. Suboxone is also known as “heroin in a breath strip.” These folks had quite a business going, what with each stamp selling for $20.
Although they are out there, Kuwaitis would be hard-pressed to find a faith healer, a fortune teller, or a practitioner of black magic. How does The Juice know this? Well, as reported by The Arab Times:
The Farwaniya police have arrested an unidentified person of African origin for carrying black magic tools, reports Alam Alyawm daily.
(Farwaniya is a suburb of Kuwait City.)
The suspect was arrested on suspicion and during interrogation he admitted to the charge of performing black magic.
No word on what the time is for that “crime.”
Is there anyone who doesn’t know that 911 is just for emergencies? The Juice is guessing this dude knew, but was not deterred from calling it an absurd number of times. What stopped him? As reported by The Santa Cruz Sentinel:
From July 30 to Tuesday, Nathan Jarvie, 33, called 911 to chat with dispatchers and officers about nonemergency things such as dirt, overpopulation and other random things, Watsonville Sgt. Tony Magdayao said.
“It’s pretty common sense that if somebody calls in excess of 100 times, I think it’s time for law enforcement to take action against them,” Magdayao said.
Yikes. So what happened?
Officers arrested Jarvie on Tuesday afternoon on a misdemeanor charge of harassing calls to 911.
You’ll find the source here.
(If you like 911 stories, go to any page on Legal Juice, scroll down and enter “911” in the “Search This Blog” box on the right-hand side.)
What does a police officer in Wales have to do to get fired? As it turns out, more than this gent, although you might have thought otherwise had you read the facts first. As reported by The Telegraph:
An armed police officer who had sex with a married woman while on duty kept his job after arguing that he could still reach his gun because it was attached to his trousers around his ankles.
Bam! You gotta like that argument.
Pc Shaun Jenkins, 36, met the woman while he was on patrol and took her to his house, where they had intercourse as his colleague waited outside for 40 minutes in their car.
At first, there were no consequences. Then he was fired. Then he was reinstated. You can read more (a fair amount) here.
As long as drunk people are not driving or hurting anyone, why not cut them some slack? This drunk gent was not the beneficiary of any such slack. What did he do? As reported at tcpalm.com:
It could be argued that a majority of Fort Pierce residents sleep on beds. Pedro Garcia, however, broke with convention, choosing to slumber on (not in, but on) a local man’s car, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.
You read that correctly – “on” a car, and “arrest.”
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