Man calls police about hostage situation, cops find his pot-growing operation

[FruityBud]

It's another round of America's Dumbest Criminals, say Minneapolis police. A man allegedly connected to a major pot-growing operation in a South Minneapolis home still thought it was safe to call police to the house about a hostage situation and ended up in trouble with the law himself.

Minneapolis police showed up at the home on 57th Street and Bryant Avenue South early Tuesday when a man called to say he had been tied up in a robbery attempt and another man was still bound. He called police asking them to help the other man and find the robbers.

That's not exactly what they found.

Police showed up to find no hostage, no armed robbers, and 35 marijuana plants in the house. The men who claimed they were hostages were arrested for their connection to the pot.

Police also said the home had been rewired to bypass the electrical meter and housed a boa constrictor and a large lizard. Good one, guys.

"This is another one of those stories that you can chalk up to an episode of 'America's Dumbest Criminals,'" MPD's Jesse Garcia told the Star Tribune.

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[GMT]

Ah it was probably for the best, stupid people like that should be locked up for their own safety.

Kinda adds more credit to my theory that the advent of modern medicne has pretty much thrown charlie darwins theory of the survival of the fittest out the window.

 

[SherwoodForest]

Hahaha! Reminds me of a dude I knew that grew indoors. He had an apartment and a roommate. One morning he went to his car to leave for work, it was blockd by another car. He went back to the apartment and dialed 911, then thought about it, and hung the phone up. He went back to the car, and it wasn't blocked anymore so he left for work. Well of course 911 hang up calls mean the police are gonna show up, and sure enough, the cops barged in and arrsted the roommate and took the grow.

 

[tibbyi]

Why in the world would two growers prank call the police from their house/growhouse?! I know some people are plain stupid but these guys should get a prize :rofl: