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In a further example of how some people haven't quite grasped what it is the police do, a woman called the cops to report the fact that her marijuana plants had been stolen.

According to police the 54-year-old woman from Brant Township in Michigan called authorities after two men broke into her home, and demanded her crop of marijuana.

According to Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau, the woman claimed the two men fled after taking the plants.

Officers responding to her call promptly arrested her on charges of manufacturing and delivering marijuana. She claimed the crop was for personal use, but did not have a medical marijuana card required under Michigan's recently-passed laws on personal use of the drug.

Pfau said that this is the first case he can remember where someone complained to police about their drugs being stolen. 'They're just not reporting this,' he told the Saginaw News. 'She was pretty upset.'

The woman is likely to face charges, depending on tests to verify if the plants were in fact marijuana. Authorities are still hunting the two men who stole the plants.