Bizarre news #2: the Need for speed divorce

by Michal Kašpárek on January 2, 2009

Every week, Brno Now picks the most interesting cases investigated by the metropolitan police.

In stolen bottles veritas!

Constables met their usual suspect not less than four times during the night between December 22nd and 23rd. 50yo woman well-known for her problems with both alcohol and law spent the night opening bottles right in markets and immediately drinking their content.
The woman will be further investigated and probably will have to pay her drinks.

The Need for speed divorce

A conflict of a separating pair led to a wild chase on December 29th. The metropolitan police was contacted by a 29yo woman driving a car a with her children in quarter Bystrc, who reported that her husband is chasing them in another vehicle.
Constables led the woman via telephone to a nearby gas station, which was quickly reached by two patrols. Metropolitan policemen solved the conflict and handed the investigation over to the state police.

Dog bit a girl right at the main station

Unknown dog bit a young woman in front of the main train station in the evening of December 30th. Because the girl had not called police immediately, the dog ran away. The girl was sent to hospital for further examination.

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