Blaming animals for great misfortune is more common than you’d expect, especially in developing countries. This time, the Indian police are under suspicion of corruption as they claim rats ate several kilograms of cannabis.
The drugs were supposed to be evidence in a court case, but when the state’s prosecutor asked for it, the police insisted that all rodents had eaten them in the warehouse. Their report emphasized that rats were small enough to enter the warehouse and consume all the marijuana kept in evidence.
It also said that the rat infestation problem was a citywide problem on the Highway, and Shergarh Police Stations suffered the same fate.
However, according to CNN reports, it wasn’t rats but flood and rain that destroyed the evidence.
Court Orders The Police To Provide Evidence Of The Rat Infestation And Their Claims
Humans Are The Alleged Rats
It Sounds Like A Case Straight Out Of A Comedy Movie
There’s A Discrepancy In The Amount Of Cannabis Every Time
Someone Must Be Held Accountable For That ‘Mistake’
According to research from 2016, rats become lazy from consuming marijuana. So if they ate that amount of cannabis, they wouldn’t be strong enough to escape the warehouse and would most likely have slept off from exhaustion – long enough for the authorities to find them there.
Redditors also didn’t believe the story as they pointed out discrepancies in the cannabis size from 518kg to 200kg and 600kg. They joked about the police being “Mall Cops” like the movie Paul Blart Mall Cop, who are incompetent.
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Someone added that “rats” really “ate” the weed but not the rodents. “Rats” is slang for corrupt officers, and the Reddit users insinuated that the court should investigate the matter.
The court demanded proof of the rats eating the cannabis, which could’ve been dead rats, CCTV footage, shredded wrappings, or any other sign that the police told the truth, but they couldn’t provide one.
If we’re giving them the benefit of the doubt, there should be signs of rat infestation, starting with preventive measures and prior reports about the problem. The police should’ve highlighted an issue of that magnitude and requested exterminators before rats destroyed evidence.
If they provided evidence of those things upon the judge’s request, then suspicions wouldn’t be on them. Also, the number of rats required to consume that marijuana can only come from human-assisted infestation.
So, the police can’t win in my books, and the Redditors feel the same way. The court must hold someone accountable for that unless they’ll keep getting bogus excuses that allow big criminals to walk away free and terrorize the public.
