The smuggler sang like a canary
Two California men were charged with smuggling exotic Asian birds after federal authorities at a Los Angeles airport found 14 live birds strapped to his legs.
Agents got suspicious after they discovered droppings on a passenger’s socks, as well as feathers sticking from the bottom of his pants.
Wild goose chase
Shortly after his parents gave him his first cell phone, an 8-year-old California boy pulled his first prank mobile call, sending emergency crews on a wild goose chase.
While at his elementary school, the boy called in a report that his father had shot his mother and she was on fire.
Sheriff’s deputies raced to the Ideal Mobile Home Park in Hamilton City and found the front door open but no one home. Deputies rushed to the school and found the boy, who confessed to making the whole thing up. He was cited for making a false police report and misuse of the 911 system, both misdemeanors.
The answer was blowing in the wind
German police said an elderly man was so annoyed at hearing the same song over and over that he called authorities to report his neighbors — only to discover the culprit was a musical greeting card.
The 82-year-old told police that he was sick of the music, which erupted at all hours of the night.
When police investigated, they found the musical greeting card on his windowsill, where occasional breezes opened the card just enough to play an irritating tune.
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Chicken legs
Two South Florida thieves thought they could dodge the cops by ducking into a women’s restroom and pretending they were females.
Fort Lauderdale police spotted Kendrick Pitts, 20, and his brother, Marquise Pitts, 19, in a stolen truck.
The brothers ran into a small office building where they crouched on toilets in the stalls of a women’s restroom. When the police entered the bathroom, the men used falsetto voices to make officers think they were women, police said.
Maybe it was a ‘stunned straight’ program?
Prison guards at three Florida state prisons admitted to zapping children with handheld stun guns on “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.”
State officials began canvassing the prisons after a father learned that his ex-wife, who worked at a Panhandle prison, allowed her daughter to be shocked by the 50,000-volt stun gun. The 12-year-old girl sustained abrasions when the powerful jolt knocked her to the ground, the father said.
Florida corrections spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said state officials were trying to figure out “how this could have happened at three facilities on the same day.”
