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You can’t trust anyone these days. You can just innocently go about your business when suddenly some crook will rob your blind. That’s what a couple in Ogden, Utah discovered. According to police, they went into a store to engage in a bit of shoplifting. They were caught, cited by police, and then let go. The couple went back to their car and got a shock:
But as the officer started to leave, “He sees the two suspects trying to flag him down in the parking lot,” Young said, “and he goes over to their location and realizes that their vehicle has actually been burglarized.”
From a distance, surveillance video caught what appears to be a man in a red sweater scoping out Alexander’s truck and he eventually gets inside.
“They ended up having their stereo and amplifier, a drum machine and some cigarettes stolen from their vehicle,” Young said.
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo: Flickr user Guerrilla Futures/Jason Tester
David Hudson of Jonesboro, Arkansas, took his friend Steve Lynn for a ride in his airplane. Lynn wanted to see what his house looked like from the sky, so Hudson flew there. While looking down, they noticed that people were loading items from Lynn’s home into a truck. They had spotted a burglary in progress.
Hudson and Lynn immediately contacted the police. The burglars tried to get away, so from the air, Hudson and Lynn gave the police turn by turn directions that led them directly to the suspects.
Link -via Ace of Spades HQ
A fire alarm alerted police to a break-in at Paesan’s Pizza in Rotterdam, New York about 1AM Friday. They found Timothy J. Cipriani wedged in an air duct with his legs dangling over a fryer in which the oil was still hot!
Cipriani allegedly told police he was trying to crawl inside the pizza parlor when he became trapped in the narrow vent. He was charged with burglary and possession of burglar tools.
Brown said a second person may have been involved, but disappeared before officers arrived.
Cipriani broke into the restaurant by first scaling a nearby tree and traversing the roof, Brown said. Once on the roof, he used a hammer to smash open air ducts.
Police took several photographs at the scene and shared them with reporters.
Police took 30 minutes to free Cipriani, who was taken, still covered in grease, to the Schenectady County jail. Link -via Arbroath
(Image credit: Rotterdam Police Department)
Do you ever have those days where everything goes wrong? That’s what happened to an unnamed 19-year-old burglar in Australia. His plan was to rob a bakery while it was closed for the night. You know what they say about the best-laid plans…
The young man broke into the shop, in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston, through a skylight and landed in a locked store room.
So he tried stacking up a number of containers on top of each other to try and climb out.
But they toppled over, throwing him to the floor.
Then he tried to climb shelves to get out, and they collapsed under him.
He fell to the floor several times, and ended up with a number of cuts and bruises.
When the hapless intruder discovered the security camera, he tried to cover it, but too late: his various falls were caught on camera. He eventually escaped, but when his face was publicized, he turned himself in. Link (with video) -via Arbroath
Michael Elias of San Antonio, Texas has been arrested several times for a string of burglaries over several months. His latest arrest was for two burglaries, one in June and the other in November.
Police said they recovered fingerprints from both locations that later proved to be Elias’s.
The affidavit shows that after his arrest, Elias told investigators how he had learned to commit burglaries using a crow bar to gain access to homes.
Elias also told investigators he had to keep committing the burglaries so he could afford to pay his attorney a $150 weekly fee to keep him out of jail.
Most people keep themselves out of jail by not committing crimes. Link -via Arbroath
(Image source: San Antonio Crimestoppers)
A man burglarized a house in Redhill, Surrey, England Saturday and stole a telephone and a package of bacon. That’s all he took.
Det Con Knowles said: “This is a very peculiar burglary as the suspect placed a rasher of bacon over a door handle before leaving the property.
“The victims are at a loss to understand why someone would break in to their house and steal a packet of bacon and we are equally stumped as to who this potentially peckish suspect is.”
The telephone was recovered. The bacon is nowhere to be found. Can you imagine why anyone would steal wonderful, delicious bacon? Police have released this CCTV image of the suspect. Link -Thanks, Steve Piercy!
Thou Shall Not:
a) Steal
b) Steal things from church
c) Steal things from church by using a crucifix to pry open a donation box
Guess which sin this guy committed: Link – via AOL Weird News
Well they would have the element of surprise. It’s like those kids who tried to hold up a police station. Who would expect that criminals would try to break into a prison?
It would make a good gag for a comedy if it weren’t actually true – thieves have broken into a Dutch prison to steal the inmates’ televisions.
Twice in the last six weeks, burglars broke into a minimum-security prison and stole TVs from cells while prisoners were away for the weekend, a spokesman for the justice ministry said on Wednesday.
Link | Image: FBI
Three years ago, someone robbed the home of the Fronterotta family in Gallup, New Mexico, taking money and jewelry. Then last week, the family received a package from the anonymous thief, containing the jewelry, an apologetic letter, and a promise to pay back the money:
The letter from the burglar that read in part, “Please forgive me, I so sorry I steal from you…so many bad things happen because I steal from you, I so sorry.”[...]
While some pieces were more expensive, Fronterotta said she is grateful for the return of sentimental pieces like a nearly 30-year-old pearl necklace and a bracelet given to her by a family member shortly before his death.
“I wish him well, he did the right thing by returning my stuff and I wish him well. I hope his life gets better,” she said.
Video at the link.
Link via Digg | Photo: flickr user DRB62, used under Creative Commons license
Now that sounds like a terribly criminal thing to do, but the creators of this website hope to warn people about the dangers of exposing too much personal information on the Internet:
Please Rob Me consists exclusively of an aggregation of public Twitter messages that have been pushed through fast-growing location-based networking site Foursquare, one of a handful of services that encourages people to share their whereabouts with their friends. You can filter by geographic location, too.
“On one end we’re leaving lights on when we’re going on a holiday, and on the other we’re telling everybody on the internet we’re not home,” the Please Rob Me site says to explain its rationale. “The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz, etc.”
Link via reddit | Pleaserobme.com | Photo: City of Goodyear, Arizona
A church group staged a murder mystery dinner theater in Yeovil, England on Saturday night. They spent the evening looking for crime clues, but failed to notice that thieves had taken a large TV, laptop computer and the contents of a safe the night before. Elim Pentecostal Church was the victim of a break-in that went unnoticed until Sunday, despite the crime-solving party. The crime was finally noticed by Reverend Howard Davenport, whose car had been vandalized at the church earlier in the week.
Revd Howard Davenport said: “In situations like this you have to laugh really!
“We were obviously disappointed that the church had been targeted twice in a week, but when I heard that it hadn’t even been noticed I had to smile.
“You’d have thought that eight wannabe detectives might have noticed a real crime a few metres from them only hours earlier!”
