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His whole house was stolen!

Chris — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:31:41 +0000

Earlier this month a Toronto man went to check on his property in the central Ontario community of Dundalk only to find that his 10 year old double wide manufactured home was missing. Just think about that for a moment. It would be bad enough to find your place robbed, but completely gone? Yeah, that’s one for the books!

All that was left on the property was the foundation that the 45 foot double wide home had stood on. His home was too large to easily move so he was quite puzzled as to how someone could have stolen his home.

He went to the closest provincial police department in Southgate Township to make a complaint about the theft of his home.

As it turns out once the police were aware of the homes theft it didn’t take too long to find the missing $30,000 house. It was on a property not too far from its former location – how it got there is still unknown. Ownership documents found at the scene were found to be fraudulent.

Jeffrey LaForest of Southgate Township is charged with theft over $5,000, mischief, and uttering a forged document.

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Man moons railway staffers and then gets dragged by train – Ironic!

Chris — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:01:08 +0000

Talk about Ironic – a German man who was mooning railway staff in a departing train got his pants caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and then onto the tracks.

The 22 year old, a journalism student, had shoved his backside against the window of a low slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for traveling without a ticket.

“It’s a miracle he wasn’t badly hurt,” the spokesman said on Monday. “This sort of thing can end up killing you.”

Instead, dangling by his trousers, the man got pulled along for about 200 meters, all the while managing to keep his legs away from the wheels of the train.

The ordeal ended when a passenger pulled the emergency brake. Rescues services were called in, causing rail services between Bremen and Hamburg to be suspended for over an hour, delaying 23 trains.

The man faces charges of dangerous interference in rail transport, insulting train staff and he could face a sizable compensation claim for the delays that he caused.

It looks like Karma gave him a swift kick in the seat of his pants …er almost bare behind.

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Caught with the loot in hand!

Chris — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:06:37 +0000

Talk about your dumb criminals!

Shortly after the town of Greensburg, PA’s First Commonwealth Bank was robbed on Tuesday morning, police came across a bank robbery suspect who was counting the loot as he walked away from the heist!

Police say that the suspect, 35 year old, David Morgan, had handed a bank teller a polite demand note with a smiley face on it when he robbed the bank.

The man was arrested several blocks from the bank as he was walking along counting money. He fit the description of the suspect.

I guess the moral of the story for would be bank robbers out there is to not count your take until you get to a safe place!

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Naked man snatches fast food!

Chris — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:14:48 +0000

Vancouver police were on the hunt recently for a thief who snatched a take out meal at a fast food restaurant. The oddest thing about the story … the man was naked!

A Wendy’s Restaurant employee in Langley, British Columbia, was handing food to a customer at the takeout window to a customer waiting in her car when a naked man ran between the car and takeout window and snatched the fries!

The two women were hard pressed to describe the man other than to give an approximate age range.

The naked thief jumped into a waiting van which sped away from the scene of the crime.

Sounds like a dare to me!

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Yeah sure, take the kids with you when you rob houses

Chris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:51:26 +0000

What was this mother thinking?

A mother was accused on Wednesday of driving a getaway minivan with her two young children inside after burglaries at two New York City homes.

Prosecutors said Erika Santana, 23, drove the van with her four-year-old and five-month-old children inside after Hugo Lantigua, 22, who is the baby’s father, and Pedro Camillo, 19, broke into two houses in the borough of Queens.

Santana, Lantigua and Camillo face charges including burglary, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child, and face up to 25 years in prison.

“It is unthinkable that a mother and father would put their children in harm’s way while allegedly committing these crimes. It is even more unimaginable that they would allegedly do so with a loaded handgun in their vehicle,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

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37 years in jail for man who chainsawed neighbors door

Chris — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:16:50 +0000

Can you imagine yourself sitting inside your apartment when your neighbor starts breaking through your door with a chain saw?

Well that’s what happened to Jamie Zaleski when 34 year old Robert Kane who was angry because one of Zaleski’s friends parked in front of his house used a chainsaw to get into Zaleski’s house.

The incident happened in Scranton, Pa last March. Zaleski and several of his friends ran out the back when the attack began.

Police say Zaleski heard a knock at the door, asked who it was, and Kane responded, “Your worst (expletive) nightmare. Open the door or I’ll cut it down.”

Officials say, he then cut a gash in the door with a chain saw.

The defense said Zaleski never actually saw Kane wielding the saw. But a witness testified that Kane bragged about the incident, and the jury convicted Kane on Tuesday of attempted burglary, terroristic threats and other charges. A sentencing date wasn’t immediately set.

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Talk about a persistent thief!

Chris — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:38:24 +0000

A would be thief in Vernon, B.C. took no for an answer two out of three times! In the end his persistence paid off.

It all started last Tuesday evening when the man entered a Vernon Square Dollar Store at about 5:45 pm. He demanded money but the cashier refused and he left. The then entered a Money Mart at 7:20 pm, pulled a knife, and demanded money. Again, the teller refused to hand over the cash so he left. (why’d he bother with the knife?)

Finally, at about 9 p.m. he robbed a gas station and fled with an undisclosed amount of money. I guess they finally took him seriously at the gas station.

He is described as a skinny man in his 20s with light brown or blond hair, about five-foot-six.

I guess as the saying goes, if you fail, try and try again. He sure did!

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Police in Albuquerque use want ads to find snitches

Chris — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:51:20 +0000

Here’s a new idea – The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches. An ad in the alternative newspaper The Alibi asks “people who hang out with crooks” to do part-time work for the police.

It reads in part: “Make some extra cash! Drug use and criminal record OK.” Hmmm I wonder if the employment rate in Albuquerque has gone up yet?

Capt. Joe Hudson says police received more than 30 responses in two days. He says one tip was a “big one” but wouldn’t elaborate.

An informant whose tip helps officers arrest a drug dealer could earn $50. A tip about a murder suspect could bring up to $700.

It’s not the first time department has run ads. In a program 10 years ago, police received so many calls they turned the phones off.

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Search widened for cardboard box fugitive

Chris — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:12:53 +0000

Get this … German police have a nationwide search out for a convicted drug dealer who escaped from jail by hiding in a cardboard box to be taken away for recycling plan to issue an international arrest warrant for him.

A Viersen police spokesman said the 37-year-old Turkish national, whose seven-year prison sentence for drug dealing runs to 2011, had escaped from the Willich prison by hiding in a cardboard box about to be picked up by a recycling truck.

“Shortly after the truck that he riding in got beyond prison walls, he slit open the box and then cut open the truck’s tarpaulin to escape,” said Wolfgang Wiese, Viersen police spokesman. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Police have been searching in vain for the fugitive. An international search warrant is being prepared in the event he is not found soon.

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Man charged with drunk driving protests by driving drunk!

Chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:45:56 +0000

When an Austrian man was recently charged with drunk driving, he became angry and decided to drive to a police station to complain about the charge. The only problem? He was driving drunk again!

When he was first charged with drunk driving his drivers license and car keys were taken away from him, but he went home, picked up his spare keys, made his way back to his abandoned care and drove to the police station to complain about the charge. Duh!

“When the driver tried to show police officers what had happened the first time, they detected he was still under the influence of alcohol,” police said in a statement. The driver was charged a second time.

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