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 unidentified victim spent Wednesday afternoon at a residence in Evesham playing a video game that Brown eventually lost, police said.
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 report, [she] had dinner Wednesday night at the Carrabba’s on Cortez Boulevard in Brooksville. She consumed $45 worth of food and wine.
Delicious. Waiter, check please…
When it came time to pay her bill, the restaurant manager told detectives she handed over a credit card that subsequently was declined.
McNeill proceeded to hand over several other credit cards, according to the report, all of which were also declined.
Uh-oh.
The manager gave McNeill one hour to find someone to come to Carrabba’s to pay her bill. When no one responded, McNeill grew belligerent. Then she started texting people.
The old “one-hour rule.” [Who knew, though it seems reasonable to The Juice.]
At 11:23 p.m., a deputy took her into custody.
McNeill was given no bond, however, because [of her recent release.]
Back in the pokey for $45. That’s gotta hurt. Here’s the source, including a mug shot.
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 car.
Down the street, a neighbor’s house is wired with video surveillance equipment. Those cameras captured the bizarre theft.
Let’s go to the video.
“The pizza was delivered to the house and as the delivery person was leaving, she looked over into the victim’s car and saw the purse and took the purse from the car. And left,” described Lt. Grigsby.
The purse contained $1,400. That is enough to warrant a felony theft charge.
Apprehending the perp could not have been easier.
By the time deliver driver Amanda Theobald returned to her store around the block, police were already waiting for her.
Curse you surveilling neighbor! You’ll find the source, and a video news story, here.
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 were stopping in Portage, Ind., and still finding money the holdup suspect allegedly threw from his car window along Interstate 94 during a police chase into Illinois.
So what’s the problem? Well …
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 jail after posting bond. Tampa Police Department had arrested Hunt earlier the same day on charges of Fleeing and Attempting to Elude Police and No Valid Driver’s License.
Wait for it (it won’t be long) …
Approximately sixteen minutes after his release from jail, Hunt approached a victim in the area of 78th Street and Gray Moss Lane. Hunt struck the victim in the face and took the victim’s bicycle, valued at $190.00.
Boom! 16 minutes!
Detectives were able to identify and issue a warrant for Hunt in connection with the April 14 incident. He was taken into custody on April 17 at approximately 11:29 a.m. at 8708 Fish Lake Road.
This is pretty shocking for a man with no criminal … wait … what’s that?
Hunt has an extensive criminal history and was released from prison December 2011.
Here’s the source, with a mug shot.
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 gave them an unidentified amount of cash out of the drawer, according to police.
So far, just your run-of-the-mill bank robbery.
Then the Bells went into the manager’s office and asked her to call police.
Say what?
Police responded to the credit union and arrested the Bells. No weapon was ever displayed or implied during the robbery.
Belleville Police Capt. John Moody did not know the pair’s relationship or why they requested the police be called. Asked whether he ever encountered a similar case, Moody said, “No, it’s the first. (But) I’ve seen all kinds of things.”
And to make it a little stranger …
Moody said the motive for the robbery, which coincided with Jeffery Bell’s birthday, was under investigation.
Happy birthday!
… both … were charged Friday with robbery, police said. Their bail was set at $70,000 each.
You’ll find the source here.
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 apartment for sex, a police spokesman said in a statement.
“There they had sexual intercourse several times,” the spokesman said.
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 seen leaving IGA Innisfail about 6.15pm on Friday.
Police allege he had items of meat concealed in his shorts and several other items in his pockets.
If you happen to buy your sausage at the IGA Innisfail, you’ll be glad to hear that …
The items were not returned to sale …
Whew! Here’s the source.
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 does.
Doh! And guess whose headquarters [that’s a hint] are right down the street?
Michael John Roberts II told an officer he wasn’t actually taking money from people so they could park on the public lot at Central Avenue and Adams Street, just down the street from the New Port Richey Police Department headquarters. He said “he was only charging people to ‘watch their vehicle,'” said Roberts, 24, according to a police report.
Brilliant!
Roberts and his friend, Michael Wayne Manis, 28, collected money Saturday and Sunday before they were caught, the report states. They charged $2 for three hours of parking and $5 for all day, plus $1 for water.
Both men were arrested and charged with scheme to defraud. Manis, of New Port Richey, was released Sunday from the Pasco jail on $150 bail. Roberts, of Hudson, remained Monday in the jail in lieu of $150 bail.
You’ll find the source here.
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 on Elm Street in Mullinville and you’ll hit a road block–a series of them actually. It’s not the city that has closed that stretch of road–it’s M.T. Liggett. He says he owns it.
Liggett says the street is vacated property and therefore belongs to adjacent landowners including himself. Traffic can still pass through on the east side of the street–the side Liggett says his neighbor owns. The situation is not causing a traffic jam, but Mayor Andy Kimble says it’s far from an ideal situation.
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