This isn’t the first time police have had to deal with an ass in their work — but perhaps the first time they’ve taken an admitted one to jail:
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The suspect was a little long in the face after being arrested and is braying for an early release.
Police said Tuesday they detained the suspect, a donkey named Pacho, after a motorcycle crashed into it on a road in a northeastern city, with the motorcyclist suffering serious injuries.
“When there are road accidents and serious injuries, the vehicles involved are always impounded,” said Diana Rojas, spokeswoman for the Arauca city police department.
“We had to impound both the donkey and the motorcycle and put them at the disposal of investigators so they can decide what to do with them and whether to release them,” she said.
Pacho’s owner, Nelson Gonzalez, said no one should pin the blame on the donkey for Sunday’s crash.
“Neither the donkey nor I were responsible because I was in front and the motorcyclist saw me,”Gonzalez told RCN television.
Our sources tell us there wasn’t a cell for the donkey so investigators put him in a special hole for donkeys. It’s called a….(WE REFUSE to do this joke..)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.