If you've ever found yourself "accidentally" doing something illegal, it's easy to get paranoid and imagine there could be an authority figure behind any tree, corner, or about to pop out of a storm drain. Now imagine you're fishing illegally and you find yourself reeling in a fish and game warden, like a goddamn cartoon. On the other side of the spectrum, here are stories of 17 police officers encounters with criminal masterminds.
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Nature can be pretty terrifying sometimes (we’re looking at you Australia), but it can also be pretty magical as shown in this new video from a snorkeler in Palau.
It was shot in a body of water called Jellyfish Lake, which is home to millions of the alien-like animals.
The species seen here is the golden jellyfish, which are always on the move as the sun rises and sets to expose the light to their symbiotic algae.
According to National Geographic:
Before sunrise, the jellies cluster along the saltwater lake’s western shore. Each morning around 6, when dawn brightens the eastern sky, they begin to swim toward the light. Pumping water through their bells, these jellyfish use a type of jet propulsion to follow the sunlight until they nearly reach the eastern shore—stopping just short of the shadows caused by lakeside trees.
They also are pretty harmless, so swimmers don’t have to worry about getting stung by the numerous creatures. Because they’ve been isolated to this one spot, their sting has gradually gotten weaker to the point where you would hardly feel anything, according to The Nature Conservacy.
Anyone is allowed to snorkel around in the lake, you just can’t go scuba diving.
“Swimming with literally millions of jellyfish was absolutely surreal,” the uploader writes in the caption. “A reminder that there will always be surprises out there!”
Now this is a mad tea party.
A man was snorkeling in the Colorado River on Monday, when he was shocked to find two skeletons.
He quickly contacted the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office about the “human remains,” and they sent personnel out to investigate.
The sheriff’s office reported wrote about the incident on their Facebook page Monday, with a video one of their divers took of the scene.
“When Firefighter Foerstner located the alleged remains, he found it to be an underwater tea-party with two fake skeletons sitting in lawn chairs,” they wrote.
Fortunately they were not real bones, but we still don’t know who put them there and why.
There are some clues however, so the Internet can speculate to their heart’s content.
One of the skeletons was wearing a pair of aviator sunglasses, and the the other was holding a sign that contained what appears to be the phrase “Bernie Livin the Dream in the River” as well as the date “August 16, 2014.”
This has some people thinking it is some sort of “Weekend at Bernie’s” joke.
The police told AP they won’t be looking into it any further.
“I don’t think they were trying to set up anything to scare anyone. I think they were gonna try to be funny,” said Lt. Curtis Bagby.
