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Thief Steals Purse, Gets Hit by Bus, Re-Thinks Career Options

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:20:43 +0000

What comes around goes around. And sometimes, it comes around much quicker than you expect. This thief in Columbia thought he’d come up with a great way to steal a woman’s purse. And everything seems hunky dory for him until a big ol’ bus got in his way and mowed him down. Amazingly, the thief [...]

College Student Fakes Own Kidnapping to Hide Failing Grade

Donald Deane — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:26:58 +0000

Nobody likes sharing bad report cards with parents, but one college student in Atlanta gets high marks for creativity by faking his own kidnapping to hide a failing grade. According to officials, 19-year-old Aftab Aslam texted his parents about a kidnapping, then went camping for a week in an undeveloped area in Forsyth County. Aslam [...]

Man Breaks Into Supermarket and Eats 57 Cans of Whipped Cream

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:35:29 +0000

Trevor Runyon took a trip to the grocery store no one will soon forget. Runyon, 30, was arrested for breaking into a supermarket overnight in Mount Washington, Kentucky and enjoying the type of culinary bonanza usually reserved for Russian weddings. The manager of ValuMarket walked into work on Monday morning to find 57 empty whipped [...]

Woman Slaps Cop So She'll Go to Jail and Stop Smoking in Most Hair-Brained Scheme Ever

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:07:34 +0000

A woman in Sacramento, California is about to become the cigarette butt of many jokes. Etta Lopez, 31, was desperate to stop smoking so she came up with a novel (and ridiculous) way to try and kick the habit: she slapped a policeman in the hopes she would be arrested and wind up in a [...]

Real-Life Super Criminal Escapes From Prison Using Explosives

Joe Student — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:30:53 +0000

In a story that seems copied directly from the pages of a comic book, a French super criminal escaped from jail on Saturday by using arms and explosives to blast his way out of incarceration. Infamous criminal Redoine Faid escaped from Lille-Sequedin penitentiary northern France by holding four

Angry Mother with a Grudge Begs Daughter, 7, to Pepper Spray Dollar Store Employees

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:23:39 +0000

Don’t let others fight your battles for you – especially not your seven-year-old daughter. Police in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania say Delaina Garling asked her daughter, 7, to pepper spray employees at a dollar store where Garling had been banned for alleged theft. Garling went to Family Dollar Store on Monday before employees tried to walk [...]

World's Most Cold-Hearted Thief Steals $6 From a Nun

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:09:46 +0000

A thief in Boston is going to have to do some serious explaining the next time he goes to confession. Sister Alice Kenneally, an 85-year-old nun, was robbed of $6 last week while she was getting set to pay for tickets to a Lenten fish dinner. Sister Alice says she was reaching for her money [...]

What the…?! Mother Arrested for Letting 22-Month-Old Smoke from a Bong

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:27:25 +0000

The world’s worst mother may very well live in Centralia, Washington. Police have arrested Rachelle Braaten, after she allegedly let her 22-month-old son use a bong, in an incident that has been captured on video. Braaten is now looking at charges of manufacture of marijuana and delivery of a controlled substance to a minor. Police [...]

Man Claims Stolen Beer Is His Wiener

Mike Adams — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:53:09 +0000

In a wicked world of dishonest boozehounds and ripple junkies, one should never be too surprised by the size of the cojones on these shifty characters; that is, unless the bulge in their pants carries a striking resemblance to a couple cans of beer. At that point, you can rest assure that you are being ripped off.

Enraged Man Beats Woman in Wheelchair for Eating Last Piece of Chicken

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:03:01 +0000

Some people have no clue how to treat the handicapped. Police in Pacolet, South Carolina arrested 44-year-old Clifford Smith last weekend because he attacked a wheelchair-bound woman after she ate the last piece of chicken during dinner. Smith and some other people were chowing down, along with the woman, when she helped herself to the [...]

Brave Dunkin' Donuts Employee Fights Off Robber With Hot Coffee

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:50:19 +0000

In a scene we havenâ€™t seen since Judge Reinhold fought off a robber in â€˜Fast Times at Ridgemont High,â€™ an employee at a Dunkinâ€™ Donuts in West Haven, Connecticut broke up a robbery by tossing coffee on the would-be thief. The suspect tried to climb through the drive-thru to get his hands on some cash [...]

Man Breaks Back Into Prison By Impersonating Guard

Mike Adams — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:00:15 +0000

Perhaps because he missed the food, or maybe he just missed getting his back hair gnawed at on a regular basis? Whatever the reason, an ex-inmate of New Yorkâ€™s Rikerâ€™s Island prison was recently charged with breaking back into jail by impersonating a guard. Thirty-six-year-old Matthew Matagrano apparently didnâ€™t care for his new life on [...]

Man Arrested After Breaking Into Restaurant, Eating 16 Slices of Pie and Falling Asleep

Joe Student — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:02:48 +0000

A man broke into a Baltimore fast-food restaurant last month and ate 16 slices of pie before falling asleep and being captured, police say. Baltimore police responded to a break-in at a Popeye's chicken restaurant on Feb. 19, whereupon they found a 62-year-old man asleep on the floor of the establishme

Thief Arrested After Trying To Ransom Stolen Lemur

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:10:34 +0000

James Edward Welborn Jr. probably didn’t have primate theft on his mind when he broke into Julie Harris’s home in Mobile, Alabama. But there was Gizmo, a two-year old lemur, and WelbornÂ allegedlyÂ snagged it along with Harris’s TV. The problem with stealing an exotic animal is that it is much more difficult to pawn off than [...]

Rude Girl Flips Off Judge, Gets 30 Days in Lockup

Emerald Catron — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:15:06 +0000

Left on her own without legal representation, this girl (who was awaiting arraignment for a first arrest) was in over her head. It probably also didn't help that she didn't get the sobering reality of being physically present in court to knock some sense into her, since this is a video arraignment taking place from jail, where she is nervous and surrounded by other inmates. Oh, and it doesn't help that this judge is clearly some kind of jerk.

Man Addicted to Stealing TVs Finally Gets Caught

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:45:21 +0000

Matthew Colleluori is in LC-deep trouble. The 33-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in Marple, Pennsylvania for stealing not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE big-screen TVs from the same Walmart over a six-day period. Perhaps he was thinking about opening his own sports bar. Or starting his Christmas stealing early this year [...]

Drunken Thief Was Too Bombed to Rob Little Caesars

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:15:45 +0000

Like so many of us have done, Ryan Hopkins made a bad decision while drunk. Unlike the rest of us, he decided to rob a Little Caesars. But the stick-up didn’t go quite the way he had (probably not) planned. It got off to a good enough start — Hopkins stumbled into a Lexington, Ken., [...]

YouTube Prankster Hauled to Jail for Giving Wedgies

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:14:58 +0000

Charles Ross has been caught with his pants down because his victims were caught with their pants up. Way up. Ross, 18, was arrested Sunday, for giving people wedgies outside a movie theater in Bradenton, Florida. Ross isn’t some overgrown high school bully; rather, it seems he was filming the spree to post on his [...]

High Speed Police Chase Takes Surprising Turn

Emerald Catron — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:32:09 +0000

We sat through this whole thing video of a high-speed police pursuit in Inglewood, Calif., waiting for something horrible to happen, because it’s the internet. Magically, nothing horrible does happen. We aren’t going to give away the surprise ending. (It’s not clowns. Quit asking about clowns.) We’ll only say it is delightful, and you should [...]

Teen Drugs Parents So She Can Stay Online Past Curfew

Amanda Ferris — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:37:55 +0000

We've all heard the stories about stressed-out parents drugging their unruly toddlers with a dose of Benadryl so that they can get some shut-eye, but this is certainly a new twist. On December 28, a 16 year-old girl and her 15-year-old friend from Northern California decided to buy her parents two milkshakes from a local fast-food joint and crush prescription sleeping pills in them so that they can explore the wonderful world of the Internet without that pesky 10 p.m. curfew.