Pretty cheeky.
A British man tried to put a samosa in jail by hiding it between his buttocks, police said in a recent report.
West Midlands police said discovering the fried pastry was one of the most unusual incidents of 2020, Birmingham Live reported.
“We have had some strange incidents,” Inspector Manj Ahir said on the website.
“One that stuck in my head was a man found with a sable segregated between his buttocks during a search.”
Apparently, the hungry detainee acted out of fear that he would not be able to get decent food after being arrested.
“He said he wanted to sneak it into the cell as an appetizer because he didn’t think the food was too much,” Ahir said.
The policeman joked, “Obviously he hadn’t read our positive reviews from Tripadvisor.”
Another strange arrest involved a forty-year-old man who returned to prison after being released, with a box of chocolates to thank the staff.
The man, who had been charged with assault, had type 2 diabetes, so officers went to his home to bring him medicine.
“He also saw a reference alcohol worker as he had been drinking for the first time in six years, which he believed led to his arrest,” Ahir recalled.
A few days later, he returned to the cell block “with chocolates to thank for the attention he received from the staff.”
“It was a beautiful gesture,” the inspector said.
Strange incidents were among the more than 45,000 arrests police made in the West Midlands last year, according to the report.
“It has been a year like no other for us with significant demand, processing an average of 126 detainees a day, while adhering to COVID-19 protocols,” he said yesterday.
“The team has done it brilliantly,” he added.