Weird Criminal Law Stories from Europe

ITALY: The mayor of an Italian village that ran out of cemetery space has made it illegal to die! “The ordinance brought happiness,” said Falciano del Massico Mayor Gulio Cesare Fava, who is trying to negotiate with a neighboring town that has room for some extra bodies. The mayor went on to say, “Unfortunately, two elderly citizens disobeyed the ordinance.

WHERE ARE THESE TWO TAKING THEIR DIRT NAPS??

 

SWEDEN: An armed robber who held up a woman in Halmstad at knife-point was caught when he tried to escape from a crowd of pursuing vigilantes by running into a building.  Unfortunately for the robber, the building turned out to be the town’s police headquarters.

D’OH

GREECE:  Greek police have reported that a childless former police officer invented 19 bogus children in order to claim benefits for all of them.  He has been arrested.  Officials contend that the 54 year old divorced man quit his $1,300 a month job in 2001 and had been living on the benefits.

FATHER FRAUDSTER…

 

ENGLAND: Two police officers noticed a little dog, not breathing, on the back seat of a parked car.  They broke in to save the little puppy which turned out to be a stuffed toy. “They must have felt like idiots,” said Gordon Williams, the owner of the car.

          THEY WERE IDIOTS…

 

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