Police say hungry rats are to blame after 1,000 pounds of marijuana vanished in India [View all]

The Charlotte Observer
2022/11/25

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 proof that the rodents had eaten the drugs, which were valued at about $70,000, according to the Times of India. The judge also ordered police to put a stop to the “mice menace.” The police have until Saturday to produce evidence that the rodents are culpable, according to India Today.

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I suppose they could hunt for some very mellow rats with the munchies.