Miscellaneous

There Are Worse Ways to Be Robbed, I Suppose

The "booby trap" pun is inevitable. And too appropriate not to re-use.

Uganda's police warned male bar-goers to keep their noses clean after a probe found a gang of robbers had been using women with chloroform smeared on their chests to knock their victims unconscious.

"They apply this chemical to their chest. We have found victims in an unconscious state," Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) spokesman Fred Enanga told AFP.

"You find the person stripped totally naked and everything is taken from him," he said. "And the victim doesn't remember anything. He just remembers being in the act of romancing."

The lesson: Don't motorboat strangers. The unfortunate thing is, I understand that several men have been robbed repeatedly by the same woman. In the same day.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on December 01, 2008 (boomark / email).