One of the first rules of thievery, so we’ve been told, is to have a great exit strategy. Get in, get out and don’t get caught while relaxing in the middle of your crime. Apparently, Jonathon Humphrey never learned the first rule. Probably why he got caught.
In New Martinsville, West Virginia, surveillance video captured a thief robbing a local store, then fleeing the scene on — get this — a motorized wheelchair.
According to a new report from the Center for Retail Research, the most frequently stolen food on the planet is… cheese.
The report says four percent of the protein and calcium-rich (not to mention tasty) food winds up being shoplifted worldwide every year, besting the theft-rates for other items like candy and alcohol and causing cheese to be labeled “high risk” for retailers.
Police in Michigan pulled an elderly man over during a routine traffic stop, and when he refused a search of his pickup truck, a drug sniffing dog found almost 228 pounds of cocaine in the back.
Police then arrested 87-year-old Leo Sharp for possession of the drug.
During their first date at a Vero Beach, FL, T.G.I Fridays, 18-year old Devin Norling and 19-year-old Sydney Sanders discovered that they had something in common: Neither wanted to pay for their meal.
So the new couple pulled the old “dine and ditch” move and got busted. That’s gonna be one awkward second date.
Estevan Tapia was leading police on a 10-mile car chase when he was overcome with the urge to relieve himself.
So the Albuquerque, NM., man pulled over and indulged himself on the pavement — all the while with a beer bottle in hand.
Maybe quality time with the kids isn’t always a positive thing: AM NY reports that one father that not only made his infant daughter an accomplice to a drug deal but used her stroller to transport heroin and firearms.
A 29-year-old man from the UK found a pretty ingenious way of outsmarting authorities and beating his ankle monitor: he lost a leg. Well, he probably lost his leg first, but then tricked a security firm into attaching his court appointed ankle monitor to his prosthetic leg
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