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The Man Who Called 911 to Ask If His Marijuana Plant Was Illegal
Jun 22, 2026 03:01 PM · Artifact
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The Man Who Called 911 to Ask If His Marijuana Plant Was Illegal
In 2011, police in Farmington, Connecticut got one of the least strategic 911 calls imaginable. A man reportedly called emergency dispatch to ask how …
The Smuggler Whose Leg Cast Was Partly Made of Cocaine
In 2009, Spanish police at Barcelona’s airport stopped a man arriving from Chile with what looked like a normal plaster cast on his leg. It was not no…
The Fake Football Ticket Giveaway That Arrested 101 Fugitives
In 1985, U.S. Marshals pulled off one of the strangest “prize giveaways” in crime history. They created a fake company called Flagship International S…
The Bank Robber Who Thought Lemon Juice Would Hide His Face from Cameras
In 1995, a Pittsburgh man named McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks in broad daylight with no mask, no clever disguise, and one deeply flawed science ex…
The Thieves Who Stole a 50-Foot Bridge in Pennsylvania
In 2011, police in western Pennsylvania got the kind of report that sounds like a prank: an entire bridge had vanished. The missing structure was a st…
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