AWOL 2014 Issue 279 25th April | Page 5

Advertise here from only 40 baht per week weird NEWS poland Thief swallows crazy amount of stolen goods to avoid prison A light-fingered thief took extreme action in an attempt to avoid being put behind bars when he swallowed all of his ill-gotten gains. Dariusz Piotrowski was arrested after fleeing a house he is suspected of burgling in the Polish capital of Warsaw. The 39-year-old was taken into custody and began complaining about stomach pains before an X-ray revealed where he had disposed of all the incriminating evidence. He swallowed six watches, a fork, a spoon, cigarette lighters and other objects before he was picked up by police. ‘Officers lost sight of him briefly after chasing him, but then found him hiding in the bushes of a garden of a nearby house,’ said a police spokesman. ‘It was while he was crouched down in the shrubbery that he probably took the opportunity to try to mask his crime by eating the objects he had stolen.’ Piotrowski said his unusual ability to swallow different objects had helped him throughout his life of crime. The case featured in a textbook by the Polish Anaesthetics’ Society. france Police discover ‘missing’ child only existed on Facebook Police searching for a ‘missing’ child discovered the youngster only ever existed on Facebook. Detectives thought they were racing against time after receiving a report that two-year-old Chayson Basinio had vanished from a supermarket car park. A kidnapping inquiry was opened and a local lake was dredged, with police fearing the worst, it was reported. However, days later – as they prepared to tell the family to expect the worst – they could find no trace of their existence in real-life. Despite the ‘Basinio’ family having full Facebook profiles, they appeared to be completely imaginary. French police are now questioning the woman who made the initial report about the missing child. Public prosecutor Eric Mazaud said: ‘The inquiry for kidnapping and sequestration has obviously been redirected into one of reporting an imaginary crime or offence. ‘It [the inquiry] was long and complicated but we can now say that the young Chayson has never existed and nor have his father or mother.’ 5 Join the AWOL forum