Argentinian police say mice "ate" missing weed
Police officers in Argentina have been called before the court to defend their claim that mice in a storage house "ate" the weed that the officers were responsible for.
A two-year-old drug bust has come back to the attention of law enforcement officials in Argentina after an amount of weed went missing under suspicious circumstances.
Officials discovered that of the 6000kg of impounded weed stored in Pilar, just outside the capital Buenos Aires, only 5460kg could be accounted for. When asked to explain where the other 540kg had gone, the eight police officers that had been put in charge gave a very suspicious response.
The men told a judge that the weed had been "eaten by mice". The men stood by their testimony, but experts from a local university say not only would mice not mistake drugs for food but if they had ingested the weed it would have killed them. Since there were no reports of rodent corpses found in the warehouse, the men's testimony does not add up.
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Observers on Twitter are not convinced that mice would want anything to do with the weed.
A fanciful story. No way mice would deign to eat two-year old weed
— Josh Robertson (@jrojourno) April 12, 2018
GAH. Don't you hate it when mice eat your weed? https://t.co/s2z3DqJ5QB
— Michelle (@SFXbelle) April 11, 2018
Makes perfect sense
— warren yuill (@warrenyuill1) April 11, 2018
The mice would eat a little..and then get the munchies.. and eat a little more.. and then get the munchies.. and then eat a little bit more.. and then get the munchies...
Next thing you know, "BAM"you're out of weed.
Seen it happen a thousand times
The eight officers have been dismissed, and will have to appear in court on 4 May.
How will they strengthen this story about cannabis-loving mice? It sounds like something that landed on the cutting room floor during the making of Pinky and the Brain!