The RCMP had their share of bad press over the years, but just take a look at what they had to deal with.
RCMP officers got an odd call in September 2009: A 20-year-old Vancouver man phoned his parents from Cancun, Mexico, where he claimed he’d been kidnapped, forced into a fight, shot at, and then dumped in a lagoon… only to be gnawed on by crocodiles. His family, understandably upset, called in the Mounties to investigate. After talking with the man and the Mexican authorities, though, the police came to a different conclusion. As it turned out, the man had been drunk and stumbled to the lagoon to go to the bathroom. There, he tripped, fell into the water, and was bitten by several crocodiles. Oh, and those crocs? They were each only about 25cm (10 inches) long, and the lagoon was plastered with signs warning that they were there.
