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January 24th, 2007 at 1:00 am

Anything will do when beating off a burglar

A yonkers home owner discovered an intruder in his home early one morning at 1:30 am. He could hear the man banging the kitchen door and fumbling with the door knob as he attempted to break into the home.

The homeowner opened to door to see who was trying to get in and the intruder barged into his home.

That’s when the homeowner, unsure of the safety of his children and wife upstairs, grabbed the fire extinguisher and sprayed the would be robber with foam. He then hit him over the head with the fire extinguisher and held him down until the police arrived to arrest the burglar.

The intruder was taken to the hospital by the police and treated for minor wounds. He was scheduled to be arraigned in Yonkers City Court on a felony charge of second degree attempted burglary.





December 29th, 2006 at 5:07 am

Thief drops pot in Court

Nineteen year old Devin K Hoerauf was attending court in Rockville, MD, to answer to charges of multiple robbery. As he stood up at the defense table something fell out of his pocket. It turns out the something was a bag full of marijuana.

His lawyer, quick to jump to his defence said ” “He is brain-damaged, your honor,” she said. “I don’t mean he’s just a defendant who does dumb stuff. This is a boy with an IQ in triple digits. His brain is glued together with Silly Putty. He can’t think his way out of a paper bag, but he can do physics.” The lawyer, Gwyn Hoerauf, apparently knows: she’s the defendant’s mother.

The jury missed the marijuana incident, but they still ended up convicting the tean on four robbery counts.





December 12th, 2006 at 4:30 pm

Thief wants reference from former employer

Karen madden, 38, who confessed to stealing $550,000 worth of jewelry and handbags from the residence of her former boss, who is the chancellor of the state’s college system, is going to trial in Harrisburg, Pa.

Oddly enough, she seems to think that she’s still worthy of asking for a work reference “Just for the work part?” from the Chancellor who is testifying at a hearing this coming July on the charges. She asked him when she’d recently called him to apologize. Now that girl has balls, doesn’t she?





December 5th, 2006 at 3:26 pm

Man way over limit fights with gas pump

Recently police in Madison, Wis., said Milo G. Chamberlain’s blood-alcohol content was .425, which experts said usually is attainable only by those either dead or in a coma. But he was picked up, quite conscious, allegedly causing a disturbance at a gas station, where he reportedly got into a fight with a gas pump before being restrained by passers-by.

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Oops! They were the wrong size

Department store assistants in the Hainan province of China were surprised to discover that a pair of trousers that had been stolen on Sunday reappeared when they took stock Monday evening, though another pair of trousers in another size were missing. Authorities suspect that a thief stole a pair of trousers from the store but later found that they didn’t fit him, and then proceeded to return to the department store and switch them with a second pair. Though no arrests have been made, police suspect a man in his 30s who had “tried on many trousers in their store in the past two days, but failed to buy any.” Currently an investigation is underway.

That thief has guts - steal the pants once, return them and steal yet another pair? I guess he really wanted that style.