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One UN-GETAWAY Driver!

February 26th 2010 00:05
Six weeks ago some aspiring thieves in Wales had their plans foiled when their getaway driver refused to co-operate at the scene of the crime.

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The bungling lads decided to take a taxi cab to an Argos store in Holyhead, with the intention of acquiring a couple of free TV's. However, their getaway driver proved to be a little more than uncooperative...... as it was the same taxi driver that had dropped them off there to begin with!

When they jumped into the back seat and told the driver Darren Renton to “drive”, the taxi driver simply looked at them and asked “Are you having a laugh?”

Panicking, the thieves then offered Darren money to get them out of there, but he instead told them to get out of the car, where they were then set upon by store staff.
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Often when it comes to the movies showing a bank robbery, they show the need for the robbers to plan their heist in advance.

Of course real life isn't anythiing like the movies, especially in this case - unless you're making a comedy that is!

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This Month's 'Doh

June 30th 2008 23:45
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And the 'Doh' Award this month goes to a 36 year old man from Connecticut wanted by the police regarding a string of motor vehicle accidents.
He was eventually arrested earlier this month after he crashed his truck straight through the front gate of the local State police department, and then into a vehicle lift at the nearby police garage.

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How bad of a burglar do you have to be to be to be captured and beaten up by the blind man whose house you're robbing?

Recently in the US, I believe it was Indianapolis, the blind man realised something was wrong when he heard his dog barking. He then found the burglar in his house and beat him into submission before ringing the emergency services with one hand which took him 20 attempts.

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In India this week a man was arrested by police after having robbed a bank of a different kind.

We've all heard the old jokes about the Irishman robbing the sperm bank by mistake, but it appears in this case that the sperm bank stolen from in this news item was indeed the actual target.

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One Real DOPE!

March 25th 2008 13:01
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There is one 35 year old Adelaide man who could be considered a real dope.

He was growing cannabis in his house recently when he was broken into. He then rang the police and alerted them to the fact that 6 men had broken in and were stealing his dope. Definitely not the brightest crayon in the pack!

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Recently in Hungary, a burglar out on the prowl, climbed the fence of what he considered to be a prime target in a posh area of Budapest, only to be confronted by fencing of a different sort.

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Virgine Ujlaky, 23, of the Olympic Fencing team was practicing her swordplay when she saw Pal Nagy, 43, climb in through the window of her house. She deftly pinned him up against the wall with her sword at his throat while she rang police.

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Definitely A Spicy Theft

February 20th 2008 22:24
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In the latest news from the 'Inland Valley Daily Bulletin' in the US, an armed robber snuck up behind a bicyclist in order to mug him.

However this incident was a little unusual considering how the standard US mugging goes.

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The Tale of One Stupid Terrorist!

February 5th 2008 09:45
In 1994, a fundamentalist group in Jordan began a series of terror attacks on a selected group of sites that were involved in the selling of alcohol and other associated 'evils'.

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One member of the group was sent with a sizeable explosive device to a cinema that was screening Turkish soft-core pornography.

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STUPIDITY And BRIDGING The GAP!

October 12th 2007 11:30
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A 45 year old man has been arrested and charged with stealing a local bridge.

The 5 metre, metal bridge was located just south of Moscow and spanned a small river. In what the police called the 'bulkiest theft of the year', the man who was employed as a truck driver, used his company vehicle to transport the bridge, which he then chopped up and sold off as scrap metal.
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Paraskevidekatriaphobia - try saying that 3 times fast!

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the name for the phobia or fear of Friday the 13th.

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A Very Determined Woman!

March 15th 2007 00:25
Surely this woman has to be considered one of the world's most determined murderers.
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In January of 1978, the case was brought before the court in San Diego, California of a 36 year old woman who after attempting various ways to kill her husband, had finally succeeded.

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Cashing In On God!

March 9th 2007 00:25
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OK, well you know how on the money in the U.S. they have the phrase "In God We Trust" on the notes?

Well somebody obviously thought that wasn't far enough to take things, he actually tried to draw down a cheque from God!

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Driven to Detention

January 8th 2007 00:25
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According to the Post Gazette in Pittsburgh, a woman who had applied for a civilian job within the police force needed to have her fingerprints taken as part of the regulations.

After taking down and recording the fingerprints of Joshlynn Leigh, 30, of Strattanville, police discovered that there was a warrant out for her arrest in Georgia for having stolen a car. After arresting her, they went out to the carpark to find, yes, you guessed it, the stolen car in question.

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