Stranger than Fiction

Escaped thief asks police to open handcuffs
A man caught breaking into a German supermarket late at night escaped only to be arrested after he ran to a nearby police station to get the handcuffs removed.
A security guard had cuffed the man and held three others after spotting the break-in.
But by the time officers arrived, the man had managed to escape. Arriving at the police station, the 19-year-old told officers he had been locked up by a friend as a joke, and asked for their help.
The officers at first went along with the ruse and removed the cuffs. However, suspecting he was the missing man from the break-in, they pressed him for details.
The man then confessed his role and was promptly re-united with his three accomplices in the station's prison cell.