Argentine police officers who claimed rats ate missing pot are fired

Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY

 

FILE photo

 

Eight police officers in Argentina who claimed that rats ate more than half a ton of marijuana missing from police custody were fired Tuesday, according to local media reports.

 

Argentine news outlets Pilar de Todos and Clarín reported that Buenos Aires' security minister Cristian Ritondo fired the officers after four told a judge that rats ate the missing pot.

 

Officials dismissed the officers' theory, citing experts who said that rats would not confuse marijuana as food. If the rats did eat the drugs, they likely would have died and police would have found their bodies, the experts said, according to Clarín and El País.

 

Full story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/11/argentina-police-officers-who-claimed-rats-ate-missing-marijuana-fired/508775002/

 

-- USA TODAY 2018-04-12

Fired is a bit harsh, transferred to an inactive post would be the norm in some parts.

My first time I couldn't believe it.Here in Thailand rats are for dinner

Someone else in the photo cant believe it

Here they would have said Termites,slightly more believable.

regards Worgeordie

An interesting variation on 'the dog ate my homework' line, but at least the dog didn't get stoned.

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I think that several people have gotten very stoned on that half ton

of smokes. Great lame story and excuse though.

Geezer

On ‎12‎/‎04‎/‎2018 at 3:48 PM, dorchester said:

My first time I couldn't believe it.Here in Thailand rats are for dinner

like in Belgium