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Woman Returns Lost iPhone, Is Rewarded With Beating
By Laura Northrup on May 21, 2012 12:45 PM
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The 53-year-old woman in Fredericksburg, Va. was trying to perform a good deed. She found an iPhone near a convenience store, and contacted the owner to give it back. They agreed to meet up outside of a restaurant, and the phone's owner promised a reward. Then things went horribly wrong: according to police, the phone's owner took the phone back, handed over the reward, then attacked her from behind while she was walking away. More »
Dozens Or Hundreds Of Apple Devices Burgled From Chicago Best Buy
By Laura Northrup on May 9, 2012 10:30 AM
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How many Apple gadgets did thieves remove from a Chicago Best Buy this past weekend? Police gave the media a modest estimate of only $42,000 worth of iPads, MacBooks, and GPS devices. However, an unnamed source whispered to CBS Chicago that the figure could be closer to $200,000, with the haul including a few hundred iPads. More »
(WKTV)
Police: Man Tried To Rob Banks While Brandishing Toilet Plunger
By Laura Northrup on May 1, 2012 8:00 AM
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A toilet plunger isn't a terrifying weapon to anyone but germaphobes, or maybe a child with nightmares of being chased by Daleks. Yet a man in Utica, NY thought that it made a terrifying enough weapon that he attempted to rob three different banks while threatening tellers with the plunger. None of the robberies were successful. More »
Naked Man Smears Self And Grocery Store With Peanut Butter, Chocolate, And Nyquil
By Laura Northrup on February 10, 2012 11:35 AM
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A 22-year-old Kentucky man has been charged with burglary after breaking into an IGA overnight and making a huge mess. According to court records, the man smashed a glass door to enter the store, discharged fire extinguishers, smeared his nude body and the manager's office with peanut butter and chocolate, and used liquid cold remedies to scrawl the word "Sorry" on the floor. More »
(genebob)
Walmart Greeter Asks For Receipt, Customer Punches Her In The Face
By Laura Northrup on December 28, 2011 9:30 AM
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On Christmas Eve in Batavia, N.Y., an elderly Walmart greeter asked a 26-year-old customer for the receipt for her electronics purchases. Instead, the customer allegedly punched her in the face and tried to flee. A mob of customers chased her and prevented her car from leaving the parking lot, and she's now in jail, charged with two counts of assault. Here's the unusual part: the customer had receipts for all of her purchases. More »
Theft Victim Catches Guy Returning Her Stuff To Macy's
By Ben Popken on November 9, 2011 3:00 PM
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Rachel thought she would never see her stuff again. Someone had stolen the Christmas gifts she left on the backseat of her car parked in front of her house overnight, along with her iPod. It was $460 out the window. But when she went back to Macy's to replace some of the gifts, her Spidey-sense started tingling. More »
Man Tries To Rob Burger King With A Sock
By Ben Popken on November 9, 2011 2:00 PM
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You know the economy is bad when crooks can't even afford decent stick-up weapons. Police have arrested a man who tried to rob a Burger King, using a sock. More »
Shadow Economies: Harvest Organs From The Poor For The Rich
By Ben Popken on November 4, 2011 4:00 PM
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Living in abject poverty, $10,000 is a beguiling promise. All you have to do is give up one kidney. It's ok, you have another one. But a Bloomberg Markets Magazine investigation shows how gangs around the world prey on the poor and use threats and violence to get them to give up their organs, which they can then resell for upwards of $150,000. This isn't just happening in some ice-filled bath in China: this week, a Brooklyn man plead guilty to selling black market kidneys to people in New Jersey. More »
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Phony Bedbug Exterminator Steals Jewels
By Ben Popken on November 3, 2011 5:00 PM
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New York Police are warning Queens residents to be on the lookout for a jewel thief in bedbug exterminator's clothing. More »
(Clemson)
Paypal Links Account Missing $2,000 To Yours, Demands You Pay
By Ben Popken on November 3, 2011 3:00 PM
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Reader Ben awoke to a rude discovery. Somehow another account had been linked to his Paypal account, and the new account was $2,000 in the red. Paypal was knocking on Ben's door, telling him to pay up, or else. They locked up his account and froze his cash. When he protested, they treated him like a criminal. More »
Senator Is Victim Of Credit Card Fraud, Thieves Rack Up $12,000 At Walmart
By Ben Popken on October 28, 2011 3:00 PM
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It's a measure of the brazenness and ubiquity of identity theft that a U.S. Senator has become the latest victim of credit card fraud. Thieves stole the credit card numbers belonging to Senator Daniel Inouye (D) of Hawaii, embedded them on the magnetic strip of a fake credit card, and went on a $12,000 Walmart shopping spree. More »
Man Accused Of Tossing Molotov Cocktail At Taco Bell For Not Giving Him Enough Meat
By Ben Popken on October 28, 2011 10:00 AM
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There's better ways to lodge a complaint against Taco Bell than by lofting a Molotov cocktail at the drive-thru window, but filling out a suggestion card wasn't the one this incensed Georgia customer chose at 5am. More »
(KCBS)
Stolen 5,300 Pound Copper Church Bell Recovered Near Scrapyard
By Ben Popken on October 27, 2011 2:00 PM
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Ding dong, are you missing a bell? Acting on a tip, police recovered a 5,300 pound copper bell that was stolen last week from the garden of St. Mary's Cathedral in West Oakland, California. More »
Copper Traded For Crack
By Ben Popken on October 26, 2011 4:00 PM
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Some enterprising drug dealers are helping copper thieves cut out the middleman. They're accepting copper pipe as legal tender in exchange for crack cocaine. More »
The Most Shoplifted Food In The World? That's Right, "Cheese."
By Ben Popken on October 26, 2011 12:00 PM
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The First WorldWide Shrinkage Survey is not about taking a scientific approach to a Seinfeld plot line. Instead, it measures shoplifting around the globe. "Shrinkage," in retail parlance, is when people take things from stores without paying for them. And according to their study, the most shoplifted item in the world in 2011 was cheese. More »
Man In "ZZ Top Beard" Tries To Rob 2 Banks In 10 Minutes
By Ben Popken on October 25, 2011 4:00 PM
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A man sporting a "ZZ Top" style beard is wanted in Philadelphia after he robbed two different banks in 10 minutes. More »
Thieves Stealing Pickup Truck Tailgates
By Ben Popken on October 24, 2011 3:00 PM
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The movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" is a lot more plausible if instead of stealing the whole car, you only focus on one smaller aspect of it. That's what thieves in Oswego, IL are doing, stealing just the tailgates from pickup trucks. More »
(KCAL)
Man Finds Parts Of His Stolen 1949 Ford Shoebox On Craigslist
By Ben Popken on October 21, 2011 3:00 PM
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Craigslist is a great place to find stuff. Like parts from the 1949 Ford Shoebox that was stolen from your driveway. More »
4 Suspects Arrested For Keeping People In "Dungeon" To Steal Their Social Security Checks
By Ben Popken on October 20, 2011 3:00 PM
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Four suspects have been arrested after being accused of a diabolical scheme where they locked up people in a basement and stole their Social Security checks. More »
How To Lock A Bike Properly
By Ben Popken on October 6, 2011 10:00 AM
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Bicycle mechanic for three decades Hal Ruzal shows you how to lock up your bike properly, so while the cops are using bait bikes to catch bike thieves, you can keep on riding high. More »
