It’s easy to play Monday-morning bird smuggler. But do you have any better ideas? From the L.A. Now blog (by Scott Glover) of the Los Angeles Times: A man who allegedly flew from Vietnam to Los Angeles with 14 live birds hidden in his pants was one of two men…
Now, dear, don’t be … oh my! He is driving backwards – down the highway! As reported by tdn.com (Washington State): Police arrested a driver Thursday night who was cruising along Interstate 5 — in reverse. The 41-year-old man drove at least three miles backward on Interstate 5 before his…
It’s 4:30 a.m. in Lincoln, Nebraska, and this guy needed some cigarettes. He was probably drunk (from drinking Bud Light.) Why would I guess that he was drinking Bud Light? Well sir, as reported by the Lincoln Journal Star: A man who robbed a north Lincoln Kwik Shop on Monday…
No, it’s not the “give us cash to protect yourself from us” kind of protection. Without even being there, Chuck Norris has singlehandedly ended a series of break-ins at a bakery in Split, Croatia. From the Croatian Times: Store bosses have seen off burglars by placing a life-sized photo of…
Sure, everyone has either heard about, or engaged in, a love tumble in a strange place or two. But, as Maxwell Smart often said to the Chief, “would you believe” a couple in British Columbia was caught having sex IN A GARBAGE TRUCK!? As reported in the Courier Mail, there…
I think this dog skipped a lot of classes at the Police K-9 Academy…
A motorized barstool! Think about it. You hop on it at home, drive right into (and up to) the bar, down a few, then drive back home. Brilliant! The proud owner, Kile Wygle, said it can go 38 mph! Luckily for him, he was “only” going 20 mph when he…
The headline from the story by WXYZ in Detroit sums it up nicely: “Teacher By Day, Inmate By Night.” For 30 days anyway, when Mr. Donald Colpaert is not teaching social studies to middle schoolers in Macomb County, he’s in jail. Here’s an exchange between WXYZ reporter Heather Catallo and…
When you think of a crime spree, don’t you think of a string of similar crimes? Irishman Richard William O’Flynn, in Australia on a 2-year visa, defied convention with his spree. As reported by livenews.com.au: His most bizarre act was to take a goldfish into a Ticketek office in the…
For offenses involving socks, two British men were sentenced to 18 months in jail (for “conspiring to commit acts of gross indecency”), and put on the sex offenders’ registry for 10 years. Really. Per The Southport Visiter: Two men swindled hundreds of people in Southport out of their socks back…