I had an aquaintance who was the victim of a hit and run in Moscow.  She was crossing the street and a police car hit her and sped away.  She lay barely conscious in the street for close to an hour hour while we tried to get an ambulance to come.  While we were waiting for the ambulance, we went to the police station (right across the street from the accident!) to report the accident and the police responded by asking me and my friend if we had boyfriends and would we like some.

Stranger than fiction.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire