They come up every year – the reports that fail to make the leap from the operational reports of the state or federal police, the Munich customs or the fire brigade to the newspaper. They include strange, strange, sometimes even funny things. Other reports were published, but were drowned in the hustle and bustle of news in this year, which was by no means poor. A review in three chapters.
Chapter 1: Identified objects in flight
Let’s start with a very Christmassy start with an angel. In the sky above the city, the winged end-of-year figures are already on the move in midsummer, as a case from July proves. You just have to look carefully … A passer-by did that – and noticed that although the sky was not threatening to fall on her head at the Pasing Citizens Center, it was an angel. The art object had a threatening lean angle.
The fire brigade raised their turntable ladder to heaven and found that the fastening had come loose and the angel was only fixed to the building with a screw. To secure it from falling, the firefighters decided to loosen the last screw and take the sky guardian with them to earth. There the police initially took into custody.
The Munich customs officers did not hold the “Star of the South”, much sung by Bayern fans, but at least the trophy for the Uefa Champions League winner. This happened in the customs office in Hochbrück near Garching in October 2020, but because customs only reported the episode in March, it should not go unmentioned here. The pot had been flown in from China.
A fake Champions League trophy ended up at customs.
(Photo: Customs)
A man from Munich who was now 31 years old had ordered it from an online shop. “It was clear to the man that it was not the original. However, he was not aware that the import of a forgery is legally prohibited,” said a spokeswoman for the main customs office in Munich. The football fan had to go home without a trophy. Like Bayern in 2021.
What customs officials found in the luggage of a 54-year-old businesswoman was also unusual. When opening the suitcase, several chocolate packs came to light that showed a difference in firmness. And in it around 50,000 euros. After all: In addition to marzipan and nougat, another option for filling chocolate. Maybe a last-minute tip for the party.
A UFO? No, Starlink mini satellites from the SpaceX program.
(Photo: imago)
Mysterious objects in flight were spotted in the sky over Munich on the late evening of May 7th. SZ readers documented “a seemingly endless, fairly even chain of objects in flight at medium altitude, encompassing the entire field of view. The white points of light came from the south-west-west direction and disappeared in a slight arc in the north-north-east direction. ” There was talk of up to 100 objects. But it was not Mars that made people mobile, but Musk, Elon. The actually unfamiliar UFO series consisted of Starlink mini-satellites from the multi-billionaire’s SpaceX program.
Chapter 2: Human Mishaps
Even if Christmas is the festival of love: What two lovers did in mid-July in their desire is not recommended for imitation for the next few days. At least not where they did it. Namely in the rear driver’s cab of a moving S-Bahn.
When several fellow travelers complained about the hustle and bustle, the couple sought the distance. “Based on the testimony of witnesses, the driver carried out a complete disinfection of the driver’s cab on site, which led to delays in the S-Bahn traffic,” reported the Federal Police, which started the investigation. For causing public nuisance.
If a police report on April 1st sounds like an attempted joke, it may nonetheless come from reality. Muggers stole a huge amount of money in Bitcoin in a brazen robbery. A crime in the real world, more precisely: in a parking lot at Munich’s Hasenbergl, and the loot a crypto currency circulating on the Internet? Converted into euros, the victim had a very high five-figure sum with him.
The man thought his virtual treasure was safely stored on the Internet and in an electronic wallet called a bitcoin wallet. But he made a mistake and showed his mobile phone, on which the electronic wallet was just opened and unlocked. At that moment, two of his business partners grabbed him, clutched him and tore the cell phone from his hand.
The annual freestyle of the stupidest delinquent of the year found a clear winner in 2021. During an identity check at Pasing train station at the end of May, a 41-year-old tried to pull a white substance wrapped in a banknote into his nose. Mind you: while he was being checked by the police. The officials prevented this and secured the substance. Whether the amphetamines had made the man careless or the almost two per mille of alcohol that he had previously fueled remained open.
Chapter 3: Animal Escapades
In the Chinese horoscope, 2021 was the year of the Ox – on the other hand, it is more likely to be noted as the “Year of the Horse” in the police and fire service calendars. Again and again, four-legged friends had to be arrested and explored on their own hooves: in February a horse that made it through the English Garden to Bogenhausen; in September the pony “Wotan”, which ran away from its owner in Gernlinden and had to be caught by federal police officers and tied with handcuffs; in July a four-legged friend called “Buali” who galloped across the streets near Aubing.
The police are chasing a racehorse through town.
(Photo: police)
This can be dangerous. But what is even more dangerous is what the parcel service DHL, the police and the experts from the Munich reptile sanctuary discovered in several parcels in the summer: poisonous snakes that were supposed to be sent from Munich to recipients somewhere in Europe. In a total of three broadcasts, a prehensile tailed lance viper, two bamboo otters and two Gabonese vipers were found. And that’s anything but funny.
Puppies in need of help were freed from a van during a traffic control.
(Photo: police)
The police and fire brigade are happy to send animal reports. In 2021 there was a dog named “Boatswain” who had got stuck in a public bus, a barn owl who was accompanied by a man disguised as a panda bear was picked up, a fox who literally looked “stupid” during a feast in the hall of a caterer and stupid “had eaten and couldn’t find the way out, four needy dog puppies who were freed from a van during a traffic control in the Gern district in February – and last but not least” Camilla and Charles “, who had temporarily separated. It was not about British royals, but about Munich’s yellow and breasted macaws, parrots. Enterprising Camilla had piled up, while Charles, apparently a little lazy, had stayed at home. After a day of separation, the two got back together. Happy ending thanks to the fire brigade.