True, Medieval Europe sometimes put animals on trial. Pigs, rats, and even insects were “charged” with crimes and given legal hearings., In Thailand, police once used a giant cardboard cut-out of David Beckham to scare drivers into obeying traffic laws. Officers claimed people behaved better when “watched” by Beckham., In Brazil, drug dealers trained guard geese instead of guard dogs because the geese were louder, more aggressive, and impossible to bribe with food., A thief escaped prison by disguising himself as a giant teddy bear, A criminal hid from police by pretending to be a scarecrow in a field for six hours., A goat once “ate” important police paperwork after wandering into a station., False, In Florida Rabbits are trained to sniff drugs at the airport. They are smaller and therefore harder for criminals to detect., A parrot testified in court by repeating a murder suspect’s confession word for word, Police once used a psychic octopus to help solve crimes near the coast., The youngest convicted killer in the last 30 years was 9 years old.

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