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• Neighbors in an apartment building in Wejherowo, Poland, became alarmed as a 19-year-old man tried to lead a full-grown horse up the stairs to his third-floor home, Radio Gdansk reported. Police were called to the building and determined that the mare, worth about $3,800, had been stolen. She was returned to the owner, and the horse thief was charged with theft; he faces five years in prison. [Radio Gdansk, 2/21/2024]
• Details have recently emerged about an incident in Willow Springs, Missouri, the Springfield News-Leader reported.
The Howell County Sheriff's Office had investigated after a man in his 60s, who was a paraplegic, lost his feet while brush-hogging.
"It was a poorly executed plan," said Lt. Torey Thompson.
He said it was clear almost immediately that the accident had been staged: The cuts were very clean, the feet were nowhere to be found, and tourniquets had been applied to both legs.
Allegedly, the victim had help from a man from Florida, who cut off the feet with a hatchet to help him commit insurance fraud.
However, since the unnamed man never filed the claim and he was so severely injured, the sheriff's office declined to charge him.
And the missing feet?
"A couple of days later, we got a call that a relative found them in a bucket obscured by tires, so we went and got them," Thompson said.
Mystery solved. [Springfield News-Leader, 2/15/2024]