Insult to injury

Sometimes life is unfair, but you just have to cut your losses and move on. This would be one of those times:

Prosecutors have dropped charges filed against an East Hartford man who called police to report he had been robbed during a drug deal.

Max Minnefield called police Monday to report that he had paid a man and a woman $8 for some crack cocaine that he never received.

Police charged him with criminal attempt to commit possession of narcotics.

During his arraignment Tuesday, Judge Bradford Ward asked Minnefield, "Did you really think the police were going to go after the people?" He added that his question was rhetorical.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone that dumb didn't know what a rhetorical question was.