Sep 21 2007
I’d Like to Report a Missing Item
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Hello officer, I’d like to report a missing item of mine. You see, I had some odd pound of cocaine in a couple of backpacks and they just disappeared on me! What are you doing with those handcuffs sir?
Federal agents thought there was something fishy about Leroy Carr.
On four occasions since last December, Carr either crossed the Canadian border or was found near it with thousands of dollars in cash, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court. He also sometimes carried night vision goggles and a GPS device programmed with coordinates for a well-known drug-smuggling trail.
But Carr refused to speak with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and they let him go — until he called to ask if they had seen his cocaine.
This news article actually inspired the addition of a new category to Scuttlebutt Pipeline, Tales of Stupidity, because I’m just finding that many stupid acts. For more stories of stupidity you might want to visit Mari’s blog, which offers a week feature called Stoopid Saturday. You’ll bust a gut laughing, I promise.
