May 21st, 2008
How’s this for returning to the scene of the crime? A Truckee, California woman crashed her car in the exact same spot where she wrecked five months ago after allegedly driving under the influence. Now that’s talent.
But it gets better. The 23-year-old’s blood alcohol content — both times — was over three times greater than […]
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May 19th, 2008
Remember the girl who was tormented on MySpace and committed suicide? The mom who helped perpetrate the hoax that sent the girl over the edge was indicted last week.
Lori Drew is accused of creating a MySpace profile in the name of a nonexistent teenage boy, who she then used to talk to Megan Meier. She […]
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May 19th, 2008
The Associated Press gives us a just - bizarre incident of a restaurateur and a security guard squaring off with Tasers over a parking problem. Man, there are so many dumb decisions crammed into such a small amount of time here it’s unreal.
Where to begin? According to police reports Harvey M. Epstein, co-owner of […]
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May 17th, 2008
While we’re on the recent subject of dumb criminals, here’s another one to add to the list. Oh, yeah, it’s from the South, too.
An Arkansas thief got the munchies during a heist and it was his undoing. Brian Bass of Jonesboro left a half-eaten Snickers bar on the counter of an animal hospital that he […]
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May 16th, 2008
From the Winnipeg Sun comes a tale so crazy Stephen King might do something with it. A Winnipeg woman who accidentally stabbed her boyfriend in the heart during a drunken sex game received a three-year conditional discharge Wednesday.
The loving couple left the courtroom together. I’m not sure who’s dumber there, her for stabbing him […]
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May 16th, 2008
First Coast News brings us a report of a pizza place employee who robbed his place of employment, while still wearing his uniform. Sigh. Joseph Whittenton broke into Jacksonville’s Hungry Howie’s Pizza early Wednesday morning.
Police arrived to find cash and credit card receipts missing and visible signs of forced entry. The owner of the […]
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May 16th, 2008
A New Orleans Burger King was visited by a guy in drag - with a gun. Security cameras caught the man on tape, crawling into the drive-thru window.
He pulled up, crawled through the window, brandishing a gun. Video shows him pointing the gun at employees and grabbing money. He then exited through the same window […]
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May 15th, 2008
We think we found another couple of men who should be nominated for the Darwin Awards. Two men from Somerset County, Pennsylvania were charged with trying to steal power lines. Unfortunately for those two, the lines were still attached to a transformer and utility poles.
The two, in their twenties, were shocked during the attempt. Only […]
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May 12th, 2008
The only thing more disturbing than knowing someone uttered that phrase is knowing someone took them up on the dare. The Vallejo Times-Herald brings us this tale of a Santa Rosa man who assaulted a camel Sunday at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.
Apparently 24-year-old Christopher Allen entered the restricted area where the camel was on […]
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May 10th, 2008
Image details: Burglar with flashlight cracking safe combination served by picapp.com
A loved one dies and you attend the funeral. While you’re at the funeral, your home is robbed. Bad coincidence? Not in Kansas City, Mo., where a burglar used obituaries to time his crimes.
Dan Johnson of Kansas City was convicted of 10 counts of burglary. […]
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