Police in Mathura, India, say rats ate about 1,000 pounds of confiscated marijuana that was being stored to be used as evidence in a trial. - Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS
A half-ton of confiscated marijuana disappeared from a storage room in India — and police are now pointing fingers at tiny, four-legged trespassers. Police in Mathura, a city about 100 miles south of New Delhi, said rats consumed the sizable stockpile, filled with enough marijuana to roll 1.3 million joints, after a court mandated that the drugs be produced as evidence in a smuggling trial, according to The National. “There is no place in the police station where the stored goods can be saved from the rats,” prosecutors said, according to the outlet. The court, seemingly unconvinced, demanded ...
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