Police alerted to armed mob, find asparagus pickers

BERLIN -- Police in rural Germany rushed out to track down a reported mob of up to 15 people armed with knives and sticks. Instead, they found a group of asparagus harvesters. Police in the town of Ludwigslust said a man called their emergency number to report having seen "10 to 15 people armed with knives and sticks" on a local road. Officers quickly discovered, however, the group was asparagus harvesters walking along the road with their work tools as they went to take a lunch break...