HereÂ’s a tip: donÂ’t call the police to report a robbery if you are the one committing it.Case in point: A woman in the Jiangsu Province in China didnÂ’t follow this advice. She phoned the police to report a robbery, except for one small problem: she was the one committing the robbery in the first place, according to the Procuratorial Daily newspaper.
The woman, identified only by her last name, Fang, was getting ready to return to her hometown from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, where she worked, to visit her ill grandmother. She was packing up things in her office before leaving when noticed some bags on the table. She swiped two cell phones and 120 yuan (about $15.07 in U.S. currency).
Fang was at the train station the following day only to discover that she didnÂ’t have enough money to buy a ticket. So her brilliant idea was to call the police to report that she had been robbed there and had no money for her trip home.
The cops soon arrived and asked her questions about the robbery, but her poor description of the robbery soon got their suspicions up. The police then searched her bag and there were the two cell phones. When Fang was asked what kind of phones they were, she couldnÂ’t answer.
Our self-tattletale was arrested for theft by the local prosecutorÂ’s office.