How many times have you handed over your credit card at a fast-food joint and never thought twice about the security of your identity? Here’s some news that might give you pause — an employee at a Wendy’s in Washington state has been charged with using a card skimmer to steal the identities of 135 customers and racking up around $75,000 in fraudulent charges on those accounts. [More]
Wendy's Employee Caught Using Credit Card Skimmer To Steal 135 Identities
By July 29, 2010
Stupidest Man In Canada Cuts In Front Of Cops To Rob Starbucks
By July 27, 2010
Another tip to anyone wishing to hold up a Starbucks: Not only is it a bad idea to go ahead with the robbery if there are police officers in the shop at the time, but you should probably not cut in front of the cops in order to start your hold up. [More]
Panty-Faced McDonald's Burglar Arrested
By July 26, 2010
Remember last week, when we reported on the McDonald’s drive-thru that had been robbed by what appeared to be a female wearing what appeared to be a pair of pantied stretched across her face. Apparently we were only right about one of those assumptions — Yes, in spite of many readers’ doubts, that was a woman in the photos; but it wasn’t a pair of panties; it was a girdle. [More]
Woman Wears Panty Mask To Rob A McDonald's Drive-Thru
By July 22, 2010
Perhaps in an effort to hearken back to her bandanna-sporting bank robber forebears, a woman in Oklahoma decided to fashion a mask out of a pair of undies for her late-night burglary of a McDonald’s drive-thru. Thank God it was caught on camera. [More]
Kentucky Man Caught With $64,000 In Stolen KFC Gift Checks
By July 2, 2010
Yesterday, we wrote about the 10 Commandments Of Good Coupon Users, and among them was “Don’t raid multiple coupons from the coupon dispenser.” Well, a man in Kentucky ignored — to the extreme! — this commandment, treating a document-storage facility like a coupon dispenser and making off with $64,000 worth of KFC gift checks. [More]
Burger King Employee Busted For Drugging Sandwiches
By June 30, 2010
Anyone who has ever eaten too much Burger King has probably felt a bit sleepy afterward. But for at least two BK customers in Jacksonville, FL, that sensation might have come from the fact that their fast food had been spiked with prescription painkillers. [More]
Domino's Pizza Held Up By The Most Polite Robber Ever
By June 29, 2010
Somewhere near Cookeville, TN, a very polite man has just saved his house from foreclosure. But what the bank doesn’t know is that he got at least some the money for the late mortgage payments from the cash register of a local Domino’s Pizza. [More]
Burger King Employee Clocks Out, Then Clocks Customer
By June 22, 2010
Here’s a lesson for all food service workers who intend on punching out a customer — be sure to clock out before you unleash your fists of fury in the parking lot. [More]
Guilt-Stricken Taco Bell Robber Returns Stolen Money
By June 14, 2010
It’s not often that a story about a Taco Bell heist ends happily, but a would-be thief in Indiana was apparently so stricken with guilt (or afraid of getting caught) that he returned the cash he’d ripped off only days earlier. [More]
