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Czech man shamed in handcuff hazard
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-14 14:58

PRAGUE  – A Czech man who thoughtlessly handcuffed himself ended up at a police station begging for help but found little sympathy as the police took him for an escaped criminal, the CTK news agency said Friday.


A Czech man who thoughtlessly handcuffed himself ended up at a police station begging for help but found little sympathy as the police took him for an escaped criminal, the CTK news agency said Friday. [Agencies] 

The 48-year-old man found the handcuffs in a dustbin in the southern Czech town of Brno, then took them to a pub where he bet his friends he could free himself with the help of a piece of wire, the way action heroes would do.

When he failed miserably, he walked to the police station, but the officers did not believe his story and delved into his crime sheet for long minutes to check if he was clean.

"The desperate handcuffed man first came begging for help to the municipal police station, but he failed and had to look up a locksmith in the end," CTK quoted a police spokeswoman as saying.