What happens to bad winners? Usually nothing, but this is not the usual case. As reported by phillyburbs.com: A video game defeat and a bruised ego landed a victim in the hospital with a broken jaw and his buddy in jail facing criminal charges, according to police. He and the…
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At Least She Had A Meal Out Before Being Sent Back To Jail
Freedom … can be short-lived. If you follow this Florida woman’s lead, very short-lived. As reported by abcactionnews.com: [Jennifer McNeill, 42 had] just been released from jail a few hours earlier on a trespassing charge. Naturally, she was hungry, and thirsty. So … According to a Hernando County Sheriff’s Office…
Not Your Typical Pizza Delivery Crime
The pizza delivery person gets robbed so often, that it’s almost an occupational hazard. But this young lady decided to flip the script. As reported by wmctv.com (Memphis, Tennessee): Once the victims’ pizza was delivered, a visitor went to leave the home, and noticed her purse was missing from her…
It’s Raining Money! It’s Raining Money!
If you find money along the side of the road, can you keep it? Maybe. It depends on where the money came from. In this, case, unfortunately for the finders, it’s a “no.” As reported by The South Bend Tribune: The day after a Michigan City-area bank robbery, drivers apparently…
Released From Jail And … Back In Record Time
Fond of jail? Crime addict? Whatever the reason, a Tampa, Florida man wasted no time getting back on the wrong side of the law. As reported by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office: On April 14, 2012 at approximately 4:22 p.m., Marcus Wayne Hunt was released from Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office…
Worst Bank Robbery Ever?
Either this was the worst bank robbery ever, or there’s something we don’t yet know. As reported by The Belleville [Illinois] News-Democrat: [Jeffery C. Bell, 56, and Rita L. Bell, 58] entered Scott Credit Union, 648 Carlyle Ave., at about 10 a.m. Thursday and demanded money from a teller, who…
Is Being Insatiable A Crime?
Woman looking for hook up hooks up with man looking for same. But this was no ordinary hook-up, as reported by theprovince.com. The 43-year-old man had met a woman four years his senior in a bar in the southern German city on Monday and she took him back to her…
Is That A Sausage In Your Pants, Or …
OMG, that is a sausage in your pants! A bunch of them, as it turns out. Per The Cairns Post: A man has been caught stuffing sausages down his pants in a bizarre alleged theft at an Innisfail supermarket. The 38-year-old Innisfail man was charged with stealing after he was…
What’s Wrong With Charging For Parking?
People wanted to park, and these gents charged them. What’s the problem? Well, it helps if you own the parking lot! As reported by The Tampa Bay Times: Two men collected about $100 charging for parking over the weekend at Chasco Fiesta. Only they didn’t own the land. The city…
I’ll Be Taking That Street, Thank You Very Much!
How does someone just up and lay claim to a street? When it’s abandoned by the city, and reclaimed, but the documents are never filed in the land records, that’s how. Unfortunately for Mullinville, Kansas, Mr. M.T. Liggett learned of this and took action. As reported by kwch.com: Head north…