TheGuardianhas account on a rather amusing , moderately daft police - establish jam that went down in Argentina recently . Namely , eight officer have been fired after they claimed that half a tonne of take over marijuana , stored in a warehouse , went absent because it had been eaten by mice .
Around 6,000 kilograms ( 13,228 pound ) of the stuff was kept in that seemingly secure placement for around two age , but an inspection revealed that 540 kilograms ( 1,191 pounds ) had gone miss . The city ’s new police commissioner suspected it may have been down to the recently retired old commissioner , one Javier Specia .
Specia and his subordinates told a judge that the marijuana had been squander by pesky rodents , but a forensic examination said that even a swarm of mice could n’t have done this . If they somehowdidmanage it , you ’d see plenty of dead mice in that warehouse .
Incidentally , marijuana is legal in Argentina , but formedicinaland Union research role only . If the marihuana Centennial State - conspirator did indeed steal , smoke , or perhaps deal the stolen produce – item of which remain unidentified at this full point – then it ’s safe to say that thing are n’t going to go well for them .
Arguably , the best part of this story is that they all used the same flimsy cover storey , which suggest this was the very undecomposed account they came up with when hash out it .
Now , here ’s the doubt you ’ve all be waiting for : Do mice eatcannabiswhen given the chance ?
A highly unscientificGoogle searchreveals that quite a little of multitude that grow or otherwise shop marijuana New World chat to each other about how mice – real or otherwise – are thieving their sweet-scented Virgin Mary jane when they ’re not look . One special someone points out that mouse are evenhandedly good at scuttling out from the scene of the crime , relate to them as “ in force escapist ” .
There are , rather curiously , a handful of case where mouse have genuinely been the opponent in the tale , though . One , as spotted byGristin 2013 , found that three suitcase of marijuana at a police force warehousing quickness in Wichita had been deplume opened by mice . They ’d both eat on some and even nested in it .
Whatever the case , any weed - steal mice that did n’t die of an overdose would n’t have got particularly far from the scene of the criminal offence . inquiry investigating the effects of THC – marijuana ’s master active ingredient – on mice have come to a truly unsurprisingly conclusion : They becomeincredibly lazyand just ca n’t be bothered to do anything in picky .
[ H / T : The Guardian ]
