Posted on 01/11/2016 5:09:17 PM PST by PROCON
MUMBAI: Indian police successfully deployed an unusual technique to retrieve a gold chain that a thief had swallowed while officers were in hot pursuit - they force-fed him more than 40 bananas.
The man denied snatching the chain from a woman in the street in Mumbai and swallowed it in a desperate bid to conceal his crime last week, but hospital X-rays suggested otherwise.
Police in the western Indian city administered an enema which failed to yield the desired result. Doctors said an operation would be the best way forward, but police officers decided it would be too expensive and opted instead for the bananas.
"He was fed more than 40 bananas throughout the day," Mumbai police Senior Inspector Shankar Dhanavade told AFP.
"Eventually the chain was found. We made him wash and disinfect it," the policeman added.
The 25-year-old man appeared in court on Friday and is in police custody, said Dhanavade.
According to reports, it was not the first time Mumbai police had turned to the fruit in order to recover a stolen item. In July last year a chain was retrieved after a thief was made to eat two dozen bananas and drink several litres of milk laced with laxatives, the Hindustan Times reported.
Months earlier in April, a thief was fed five dozen bananas after swallowing a gold chain with a large pendant. The thief successfully excreted the loot. But the disgusted victim refused to touch it and instead took it to a jeweller in a plastic bag, the newspaper said.
No banana, no ping!!
....sometimes weird stuff just coalesces into.... you know, really strange attractors.
It’s a darn good thing to be endowed with strong self-discipline, otherwise... we’ll leave that unsaid.
;>)
Dude is lucky the police didn’t send for Hanuman, the monkey god.
I wonder if that woman really wants her gold chain back now?
I’m having to eat a banana a day because my potassium level
reeks, and an orange AND take a few potassium capsules.
Doc prescribed me a megadose of potassium chloride; but I
quit that and am taking another form of potassium. Potassium
Chloride causes weakness in the hip joint! So, I’m taking
Potassium Asporotate, eating bananas & an orange a day. Urk!
LOL, you always push the limits :-)
Stories from India leave my head spinning...
Holly Golightly
Two dozen bananas and two liters of laxative-laced milk? And that was just the investigation phase? The sentencing phase consisted of two words: “A cork.”
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