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EARTHDATE: August 21, 2016

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DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK: A SMELLY SURPRISE

by Hazed

Criminals sometimes make off with substances that are not what they were expecting. Some car thieves in Wellington, New Zealand recently stole a box from a car which would have given them a really stinky shock – it contained oil from stoats’ anuses!

The vehicle was owned by conservation company Goodnature. It had been parked in a suburb of the city overnight when thieves smashed a window and stole a box that had been left inside.

The box had markings on it indicating that it contained chemicals, so company director Robbie van Dam thinks the robbers probably thought the materials could be used for drug-making.

Instead, they got 16 small bottles of experimental oil extracted from the anal glands of stoats. The chemicals were used as research into high-powered attractants for an animal trap.

“Stoat anal gland oil is extremely smelly stuff and it lingers on any fabric or surface,” van Dam said. Just a few drops of the scent in the thieves’ car or home would stink for weeks.

That should make it quite easy to identify them.

Which reminds me of the old joke: How do you tell the difference between a weasel and a stoat? A weasel is weasily identified, but a stoat is stoatally different!

Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11691903

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