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A man claimed he drunkenly mistook a Kaohsiung police car for his ride. Officers let him leave, but reconsidered after his friends posted a video of the apparent prank.

Police took more than 200 people in for questioning after raiding a makeshift weekend nightclub in Daliao. The same venue was reportedly shut down following a major drug investigation in 2024 but later reopened.

A Kaohsiung court upheld most of a penalty against a scooter rider filmed riding hands-free on Gaoping Bridge, saying numbness from carpal tunnel syndrome did not justify dangerous driving.

Police became suspicious after the male rider appeared nervous and struggled to explain who the woman riding behind him was. An officer eventually asked her directly whether she was the person police were looking for. Chen reportedly smiled before admitting her true identity.

The couple’s 12-year-old boy struck the floor with a baseball bat to distract Chen, giving his parents time to escape into the office and call police.

Police said the smuggling group packed 2,519 grams of cannabis flowers into 24 packets of well-known Thai instant noodles. The drugs were mixed with small amounts of broken noodles and seasoning to make the packets look like normal instant noodles before being resealed and shipped to Taiwan.

Court says drug trafficking group provided man with 500 British pounds’ worth of TRX cryptocurrency to pay for travel from the United Kingdom to Germany and hotel accommodation, the court said. He was also promised 600 pounds, or about NT$25,000, after completing the delivery. The relatively small payment stood in sharp contrast to the scale of the shipment, which prosecutors said contained more than 27 kg of ketamine.

The officer, surnamed Wang, reportedly first climbed over a wall behind his police station with a sickle and cut down two bunches of bananas belonging to a local resident. About two weeks later, he stopped beside nearby farmland before dawn, pulled two young avocado trees from the ground, and replanted them at his home.

Police said Su had previously had his scooter plate suspended for riding without a license. Worried that riding without a plate would be too obvious, he allegedly attached his home address plate to the vehicle. It did not have the intended effect.

Officers said both drivers violated traffic rules requiring drivers to immediately yield to ambulances, fire trucks, police vehicles, and emergency repair vehicles using sirens. The drivers will be summoned to give statements and face fines of NT$6,000 to NT$30,000. Their driver’s licenses may also be revoked, and their vehicle plates suspended for six months, police said.