Sweet irony:

Italian police burst into the room of a suspected Mafia mobster in Sicily and arrested him as he watched a television show about the arrest of a Mafia boss, investigators said Friday.

Police said Michele Catalano was watching the concluding chapter late Thursday of the TV mini-series “The Boss of Bosses,” recounting the arrest in 1993 of real-life Cosa Nostra leader Salvatore “Toto” Riina, when he was detained.

I can’t imagine this is the first time. I almost always see TVs on when people are arrested on Cops and wouldn’t be surprised if more than a few perps had been watching the show in their wife-beater tees as the real cops came busting in.

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