If it can go wrong, it will: Police party bus-ted
| September 21, 2009 | 10:01 AM
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Apparently lights and badges aren’t the only things that some Australian cops enjoy flashing.
A party held by several police officers Down Under took a wrong turn when they allegedly commandeered a bus without permission and started running around the vehicle naked when it stopped at traffic lights.
Stunned motorists were the ones who had to call this one in to headquarters.
Five or six officers were on the Toyota minibus, which left a private party and ended up at a branch office of the police Special Services. At least one of the bad boys in blue was on duty during the afternoon escapade.
An investigation has been launched, so it sounds like someone could get swatted.
Read more at Australia’s The Courier-Mail.
More stories from the “If It Can Go Wrong, It Will” department:
- Faulty connections caused the alarm system at a suburban New York City nuclear power plant to rattle residents by blaring “Emergency! Emergency! Emergency!” Read more at nytimes.com.
- A masked man who prompted a lockdown at a Michigan high school turned out to be a police chief who was there to teach a class about robberies. Read more at mlive.com.
- In St. Louis, a coffee maker hooked up to a faucet at a community college led to a ruptured water line that caused $200,000 in damage. Read more at cbsnews.com.
- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is red-faced after accidentally giving out the phone number for a sex chat line during his weekly radio show. Read more at cbs4denver.com.
- In Egypt, officials are starting to regret having all of the garbage-eating pigs killed. Read more at nytimes.com.
- In Sweden, a man’s home has been smashed by a truckload of logs for the third time. Read more at The Local.
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