Human Flypaper

Posted by Miss Cellania in Crime & Law, Home & Garden on July 27, 2009 at 1:01 pm

This anti-burglar mat works just like flypaper! Leave the super sticky mat inside your doorway when you leave or go to bed. If a burglar breaks in, he will be confounded and frustrated. He will probably free himself, but won’t be interested in whatever else he thinks you might have in store for him. What could possibly go wrong?

Of course on the other hand that might just make them angry and want to tear up the place a bit, in addition to robbing you.

The anti-burglar mat will be on sale in Japan this fall. Link -via J-walk Blog

 
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Couple Make Burglar Clean Their Home

Posted by Queuebot in Crime & Law, Odd News on February 14, 2009 at 10:38 am

What would you do if you came home to find your house ransacked, and worse, that the burglar was still inside?

A couple from Montgomery, Alabama, did what some people might find unthinkable – they made the burglar clean up the mess he had made at gunpoint while they waited for the police to arrive.

“Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home,” Mrs. McKinnon told her local newspaper the Montgomery Advertiser.

When her husband walked into another room to check what was missing he came face to face with the burglar, who was wearing one of Mr. McKinnon’s hats.

“My husband Adrian caught the thief red-handed in our home. And what is even crazier, the man even had my husband’s hat sitting right on his head,” Mrs. McKinnon said.

Mr. McKinnon held suspect Tajuan Bullock at gunpoint and made him sit down until he decided what to do.

“We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor,” Mrs. McKinnon said.

When the police arrived the work-shy burglar had the cheek to complain to them – about having to clean up his mess at gunpoint.

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The Incompetent Burglar

Posted by Miss Cellania in Crime & Law on January 30, 2009 at 9:07 am

28-year-old Brett Kerr attempted to rob a home in Christchurch, New Zealand, but messed the job up in so many ways. The victim’s son, Greg Kitson, was amazed at the incompetence of the caper.

Mr Kitson sped over to his parents’ house after his wife noticed a fire in the kitchen. When he got there, he did not know who to call first. “We had a fire, we had a burglary and we had someone injured so it was like an all-play.”

He believes it all went wrong for Kerr when he tripped taking a drum set down a narrow spiral staircase, and apparently knocked himself out.

“This might be where he done himself in, then he thinks, ‘Ah! It’s a good time to get the plasma TV when I’m knocked out and totally out of it.’”

Bleeding profusely, it seems Kerr then set fire to the kitchen before deciding it was time for a lie-down.

The burglar’s actions puzzled Mr Kitson.
“Why would someone come in, light a fire, go upstairs and fall asleep?”

Link -via Arbroath

 
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Thor, Norse God and Crime Fighter

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Fashion on January 2, 2009 at 2:51 pm

There are two remarkable things about this BBC news report from Edinburgh, Scotland. First, a man tried to break into a flat carrying a pitch fork. And second, he was chased away by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor.

"Thor" was actually Torvald Alexander, who was dressed-up for a New Year’s dress party. Link

If you’re curious, Telegraph has a photo of Torvald in his Thor costume.

 
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