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Now this is advertising so clever it's criminal: Y&R agency in Amsterdam, The Netherlands came up with an unusual ad to feature the slim LG's new TV. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Ads of the World
Neatoramanaut Naimul brings us video of an event that happened at his workplace, WCG in San Francisco. A thief brazenly cuts through a bike chain and takes off on the bicycle, right in front of the office windows. The first one out the door is a designer named Kristen.
People have complained that we didn’t beat him up, but the truth is, it was pretty scary—the guy was kinda big, and when we called office security on him, he pulled a knife on the security guy (the dude in the shorts with the badge that walks down at the end of the video). We obviously didn’t know the guy had a knife, but living in SF you hear stories about deadly bike thieves.
I think stopping the theft was enough bravery for the day. -Thanks, Naimul!
The Google translation from Norwegian is a bit rough, but it appears that 66-year-old business owner Harald Mikkelsen of Alta, Norway, stopped a thief who was making a getaway by lifting the car with his tractor! Mikkelson only lowered the getaway vehicle when police arrived, 45 minutes later. The incident was captured on video by tourists, and Mikkelsen has become a national celebrity for his actions last Friday. Link -via Arbroath
I hate to use the word “literally” but I think it’s appropriate here. Dusty, a 5-year-old feline from San Mateo, routinely sneaks out at night to nab the neighbors’ swimwear, among other interesting treasures. Whatever his motives, Dusty’s kleptomania has become something of a joke in his neighborhood. (Is it all right to make a purr-petrator joke? No? Okay.)
Owner Jean Chu told the San Francisco Chronicle he has pilfered gloves, towels, shoes and more since she adopted him from the Humane Society.
“I noticed a piece of latex glove on the bed one morning and told my husband he should do a better job cleaning up his work stuff,” Jean Chu, whose husband is an artist, told the Chronicle. “He said, ‘It wasn’t me. I think it was the cat.’ ”
Dusty has a special love for swimsuits.
“He stole my bikini,” Kelly McLellan, who lives a few doors up the street, said to the Chronicle. “He did it in two trips. He was very focused on keeping the ensemble. When it went missing I wasn’t worried, though. I knew where to go.”
Experts say Dusty’s predatory instincts have gone astray, leaving him hunting for people’s stuff.
The cat’s thieving has made him a minor celebrity.
Link | Image: Uncyclopedia
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Stealing things and selling ‘em later at the neighborhood fence? That’s so old school!
The new "in" thing is stealing-to-order. All you need to do is text the thief what you want, and voilà: it’s like having your own personal shopper, except, you know, he steals stuff for you …
An arrest report for 36-year-old Sean A. Harrington lists him as "not employed," but some may say that’s debatable after reading the description of his alleged crimes. Police say he was caught stealing merchandise from Rack Room Shoes on S. Hurstbourne Pkwy., near Six Mile Lane, on Friday afternoon. According to the report, Harrington was allegedly, "concealing shoes down the front of his pants" and left the store without paying. [...]
Upon Harrington’s arrest, police were able to examine his cell phone — and they made a significant discovery. The arrest report states that the phone, "had numerous text messages of others ordering merchandise from [Harrington], who would then go out and steal specific items."
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Talk about adding insult to injury: after a thief stole $2,500 from a victim, he or she sent flowers to her home!
Oh, how brazen! NBC News has the video clip: Link (self-playing video clip)
Brian Westerfield approached a man in a Nampa, Idaho Walmart store who had just bought a smartphone. He grabbed the phone and fled.
He got away the first time but when the victim and police got together they came up with a plan to call the stolen phone and talk to the man who took it.
“The suspect didn’t know that he was talking with the police,” Sgt. Mike Wagoner said. “(They) dickered over the price for the phone and so when the suspect did show up the police obviously where there to meet him.”
They arrested him after he tried to run he tripped and fell face first onto the ground.
It apparently didn’t occur to Westerfield to wonder how the “buyer” got the phone number when he didn’t yet know it himself. Link -via Gizmodo
Funeral homes in Wellington, New Zealand, have been hit by an unusual thief, dubbed the "Grim Eater" for reasons that will soon become obvious. From The Dominion Post:
A fake mourner who repeatedly gatecrashed Wellington funerals was so keen on the food that he brought along tupperware containers to fill up and take home.
The "grim eater" attended up to four funerals a week during March and April before he was stopped.
Harbour City Funeral Home director Danny Langstraat said the company eventually grew concerned enough to take a photograph of the man and distribute it to its branches. "He was showing up to funeral after funeral, and without a doubt he didn’t know the deceased."
The man, thought to be aged in his 40s, went to different churches and venues around the eastern suburbs, including Miramar, Rongotai and Kilbirnie. "We saw him three or four times in a week. And certainly he had a backpack with some tupperware containers so when people weren’t looking, he was stocking up."
The man was "always very quiet and polite, and did as the rest of the mourners did in paying his respects".
The man in question was later revealed to be a local artist named Reese Tong: Link (Photo: Kent Blechynden/The Dominion Post)
All it takes is a hammer …and breakable glass! This reporter’s simple demonstration turned out to be anything but simple.
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What happens when a seagull decides to steal from the world’s laziest cat? Watch or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks SparkS!
Matthew Maynard of Swansea, UK thought he could make himself look a bit better in the newspaper. At least better than the police mugshot that was printed, along with seven other people who police were looking for regarding a burglary. So the 23-year-old suspect took a picture with his cell phone and sent it to the newspaper office, requesting they use it instead of the police mug shot!
Police declined to comment on the provocative picture, taken on Mr Maynard’s mobile phone and texted to the newspaper offices, but said that their recent drive to catch criminals was working.
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Tom Houk of Steamboat Springs, Colorado built a putting green in his yard, and got into the habit of leaving his golf balls where they landed until he returned. A few months ago, he woke to find all his golf balls gone! Houk produced more balls, but the next day, they would be gone, too. This continued until Houk finally spotted the thief.
A hairless fox was standing there with one of his golf balls in his mouth.
“We just couldn’t believe it and we thought he just snatched one,” Houk said.
The fox had more than one golf ball in mind.
“He doesn’t just take one ball,” Sally Houk said. “He came back and forth and back and forth until he took all of them.”
Tom Houk thinks the fox has taken nearly 100 of his golf balls.
What does a fox do with a hundred golf balls? Jerry Neal of the Colorado Division of Wildlife thinks he probably plays with them. No word on what size clubs the fox uses. Link -via Arbroath
This has got to be one of the strangest police investigations ever. Detectives in Valencia County, New Mexico, identified a possible suspect by extracting DNA from a very unusual piece of evidence left by the thief: his own turd!
The thief used the bathroom and left his solid waste on display for the homeowner. "It’s more of an insult right there. It was a big slap in the face," the homeowner said.
That same type of evidence was found at several different burglary scenes. The detectives on the case said they used the thief’s calling card against him. The feces went into evidence and the state crime lab extracted DNA from it. "We ended up getting a hit," Rivera said.
Good work, CSI Valencia County! Link – via Dave Barry’s Blog
Matt Neary of Fargo, North Dakota found that a thief had stolen CDs and his wallet out of his truck — but he did leave a pleasant note complimenting Neary’s taste in music:
You have amazing taste in music.
Don’t worry about your credit cards and diver’s license — I know I can’t use them…after tonight, at least.Seriously though
Lock your car in the future
Link (local news video) via Nothing To Do With Arbroath
When an intoxicated man broke into a man’s home in Bar Harbor, Maine, the homeowner had to bribe the man to leave with (ironically, non-alcoholic) beer!
Scott Cote, 22, remained in jail Monday afternoon after he allegedly broke into a man’s Cleftstone Road home and woke him up around 4 a.m. Monday, police wrote in a report about the incident. The homeowner, after waking up to find Cote in his bedroom, convinced Cote to leave by giving him a nonalcoholic beer, police indicated.
“[The resident] gave suspect a [nonalcoholic] beer to bribe him to leave the residence,” the police report said.
Bill Trotter of the Bangor Daily News has the story: Link
Quick: what do you usually do on a family outing? Do you go to the movies? Maybe eat out? How about steal together? That’s exactly what one family did in Boerne, Texas.
Kim Fischer of WOAI reports:
Boerne police said that they’ve never seen anything like it. A family stealing items right off a store counter. Then, caught on surveillance video, a child walking out the door with them.
Wal-Mart camera saw it all. First a man cases the jewelry section. Next, he brings in a child to cover him as he steals an entire carousel of jewelry worth $1,600. Then police say the adult let this small child do the dirty work. "She was the one who pushed that grocery cart out the front door …"
Link [video clip]
Jami McElrath got her camera stolen when a thief broke into her car. When the thief found out that Jami is terminally ill, he had a change of heart and returned the camera:
McElrath, who has inoperable cancer, was collecting photos to place in a scrapbook for her children so they could remember her after she was gone. The camera had belonged to her father, who died of a heart attack two years ago.
The woman told her heart-wrenching story to Dallas-area news station WFAA TV, appealing to the burglar to return the camera. [...]
Then something remarkable happened. A few days after the story aired, Douglas got a call from a man who told him to look behind a red car in the station’s parking lot. The caller didn’t leave his name; he said only that he felt bad about the incident and wanted to return the camera.
Link – Thanks Geekazoid!
