police

  • Twenty-year-old student becomes Chief of Police in violent Mexican town

    I’m sure that more than a few people were left scratching their heads when a Marisol Valles, 20-year-old criminology student became the top cop in the town of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero. People normally devote years of fighting their way up the chain of command to become Chief of Police...
  • Police miss knife in dead man’s back

    Kent, United Kingdom: British police in called to the home of 66-year-old Antoine Denis by worried neighbors apparently had other things on their mind than the dead guy slumped on his back in the bedroom. Presumably, they chalked the up to natural causes – because the undertakers called the...
  • Cop has run of terrifyingly bad luck

    Next time you have a bad day at work, spare a thought for the guy pictured above. The smiling police officer is Pc Jason Mepham and he just had a pretty bad day of work. Mepham can count himself lucky that he didn’t drown in a vat of chocolate...
  • Grease helps extract man from shaft

    Chefs at Melbourne’s Crown Casino got a surprise when they heard a frantic voice coming from a ventilation shaft above the ovens. A search and rescue team and paramedics, were dispatched to the scene where they eventually found a 25-year-old man stuck in the shaft. Hot and dehydrated, the man was pulled...
  • Police Charity seeks help from Porn Industry

    Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson is somewhat redfaced after learning that one of the Police Forces Charity events was sponsored by an adult entertainment venue. As a result, the commissioner has warned all officers to be aware of sponsorship protocol, reminding fund raisers within the force that sponsorship by the...
  • Urinating at 2am causes everything to get wet

    Keen to find relief at 2am, an intoxicated 32-year-old Gold Coast man decided to use the privacy of darkness to urinate into a local creek. What he didn’t expect to do was fall head-first into the creek as well. To add insult to injury, he then got stuck in the mud on the bank....
  • Victoria’s oldest hoon driver

    An 80-year-old woman has become one of Victoria’s oldest hoon drivers after she was caught doing 164km/h (102mph) in a 100km/h (62mph) zone. Highway Patrol officers pursued the woman for 4km (2.5 mi) before she realised they were trying to intercept her. Police expected to charge her for exceeding the speed limit,...
  • Store Thief: FAIL

    An 18-year-old man has been given a notice to appear (NTA) in court after an alleged incident recently in Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. The man allegedly stole a pair of football shorts from a sporting goods outlet and allegedly setting off the security alarms. He was then told to stop by a staff...
  • Nude, Drunk worker arrested.

    Police investigating a possible break-in at a business got more than they bargained for when they found an apparently intoxicated worker catching up on tasks over the weekend – while stark naked. Fort Worth police were checking on an open door at the Regal Plastics warehouse and discovered Kenneth Clyde Jackson,...