The Associated Press
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Police said Monday that they had detained a man caught with a gun and a head of cabbage he intended to use as a silencer.
Police in the Black Sea resort of Yalta stopped the 48-year-old man who exhibited “suspicious behavior” and arrested him after finding a loaded handgun in his bag with a cabbage he said was “to be used as a silencer,” said Iryna Halynska of the city’s security service.
The man’s motives were not immediately known.
“Our officers just shrugged their shoulders, smiling, as they’ve never seen cabbage used as a silencer before,” the spokeswoman said. She claimed the thick vegetable could effectively muffle the sound of a gunshot.