For true stories that are so mind-blowingly ridiculous, that you could have sworn it was an Onion story.
Metro Transit Police arrest teenager for carrying chips and lollipop into station
Metro Transit Police arrest teenager for carrying chips and lollipop into station
Metro Transit Police are being criticized for excessive use of force after a video posted Tuesday showed an officer pushing and tripping a high school student, knocking her to the ground, after she refused to throw away a bag of potato chips and a lollipop.
washingtonpost.com




Wow. Broken Windows policing at work, I see. Because one day they're eating chips on the Metro and before you know it they'll be shooting up drugs and robbing convenience stores.
Lollipops: threat or menace?
Yeah, well, Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea.