Caught with pants down

police in Maryland, US, are looking for a few good pairs of pants. The Baltimore police department has run out of two popular sizes of the custom-made navy blue uniform pants it provides to every officer, a department spokesman said. Officers who wear size 36 or 38 will have to wait for new pants until a special order comes through.

"We are officially out," said Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman. "We're putting in an emergency order for those two sizes." The department attributed the shortage to the recent hiring of 240 new officers.