"Officers have applied ingenious–and usually illegal–solutions to their 
local problems. Cops have been known to drive frequent flyers outside 
the boundaries of their own jurisdictions, dropping them off in someone 
else's territory. In the 1970s, a couple of cops loaded up their 
prisoner transport van with some of their favorite people, and unloaded 
them into an unattended railroad boxcar. That one backfired big time 
when the boxcar was opened several days later in another state, and the 
occupants were almost dead from hunger and dehydration. I'm not 
endorsing any of these actions, but they're illustrative of how 
frustrated with the problem cops can get. "