While the TSA blog loves to brag about all the weapons the agency’s screeners have taken off travelers, this news probably won’t be posted with pride on the kitchenette bulletin board at TSA HQ. [More]
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Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Booze To Underage Customer Even Though Video Footage Shows He Didn't
By 4.25.12
Earlier this month, an employee at a Brooklyn bodega was arrested for selling alcohol to a minor in an undercover sting operation. On the advice of his lawyer he entered a guilty plea and paid the $120 fine, but that was before he found out that there is in-store video footage that appears to vindicate him. [More]
McDonald's Staffer Learns That Spitting In The Tea Will Get You Arrested
By 4.19.12
The history of spit-in-food goes back approximately 2,700 years, with the first known instance often attributed to a disgruntled fry cook at a lamb burger joint in a suburb of Babylon. That storied tradition continues to this day, with an employee at a South Carolina McDonald’s arrested for allegedly leaving behind his phlegm in two customers’ teas. [More]
Michigan Lottery Winner Charged With Welfare Fraud
By 4.17.12
There’s been another development in the saga of the Michigan woman who won $1 million in the lottery but continued to collect food stamps. The state’s attorney general announced today that the woman had been charged with welfare fraud. [More]
Cops Waking Up Drivers Who Leave Cellphones, GPS And Other Valuables In Their Cars
By 4.10.12
If you live in Richmond, VA, and have a habit of leaving your phone, GPS device or some other valuable item in your car, don’t be surprised if you’re woken up in the middle of the night by your local police officer. [More]
Punching A Cop In The Face Is Not A Good Tactic For Selling Direct Energy Service
By 4.9.12
It’s not uncommon to be visited by a door-to-door rep attempting to sell service for an electric or gas company, but it’s not every day that one of those sales calls ends in an off-duty police officer being punched in the face. [More]
Would Undercover Agents Prevent Baggage Theft At The Airport?
By 3.28.12
After yesterday’s report that airport and airline staff are allegedly stealing more than 200 bags each day at JFK International, Senator Chuck Schumer has come up with a possible solution: Put undercover FAA agents in the bellies of those jets. [More]
Report: More Than 200 Items A Day Stolen From Passengers At JFK Airport
By 3.27.12
JFK International in NYC isn’t just one of the busier airports in the country, it’s also reportedly the place in the Big Apple for passengers to have stuff stolen out of their bags. [More]
Pizza Hut Drivers Turn Into Super-Cops, Follow Robbers To Hideout
By 3.8.12
If you’re standing outside a restaurant and see three gun-toting people in masks flee the building, what is your immediate response? For a pair of Pizza Hut drivers in Georgia, it was time to tail the suspects before they could get away. [More]
Victim Says Police Won't Investigate Scam Because His $1,200 Isn't Worth The Effort
By 3.5.12
A pizzeria owner in Philadelphia says his business was scammed out of $1,200 by someone using a blocked phone number, but when he contacted police for help he was told by detectives that the value of the crime didn’t merit investigation. [More]
If You're Going To Dine-And-Dash, Don't Do It In A Restaurant Full Of Cops
By 3.2.12
We certainly don’t condone the act of dining-then-dashing. It’s illegal and, more importantly, just plain rude to the people that prepared and served your meal. It’s especially rude when the servers are law enforcement officers working a fundraising event for the Special Olympics. [More]
McDonald's Customer Can't Sue Golden Arches For Attack By Spatula-Wielding Cashier
By 3.1.12
After 12 years of legal wrangling over an altercation between a customer and a McDonald’s employee, the Mississippi Court of Appeals has confirmed that the restaurant chain can not be sued over the fast food fisticuffs. [More]
Diabolical Criminal Robs Banks With Nuclear Weapon Threats
By 2.29.12
Like a James Bond villain with scaled-down ambitions, someone in the Washington, D.C., area has managed to pull off a string of bank robberies by threatening to go nuclear. [More]
Kmart Manager Shot By Robber, Still Manages To Stop Robbery
By 2.28.12
If you’re shot while trying to prevent a robbery, not many people would hold it against you if you just let the bad guy finish up the heist and leave. But don’t tell that to the manager of the Seattle-area Kmart who not only survived his gunshot wound but also held the robber until police arrived. [More]
Trying To Cook Your Own Meal At Denny's Will Probably Get You Arrested
By 2.24.12
If you’re in the mood for making your own burgers, we suggest picking up ingredients at a grocery store and trying it at home. We certainly don’t suggest what one Wisconsin man is accused of: Telling the staff at his local Denny’s that he was the new boss and then going straight to work in the kitchen. [More]
Family Resorts To Public Humiliation To Stop Teen From Stealing
By 2.14.12
What’s a parent to do with a sticky-fingered teenager who keeps stealing things from other family members? For one Memphis family, the answer was to make that teen stand on a busy street corner holding up a “I steal from my family” sign. [More]
Blocking The McDonald's Drive-Thru? That's A Tasering
By 2.6.12
A North Carolina woman is probably still feeling the sting — at least the sting of public humiliation — from being Tased by police for refusing to budge from the McDonald’s drive-thru. [More]
Is $200 An Appropriate Penalty For Stealing A $.79 Donut?
By 1.27.12
A Wyoming college student probably never thought he’d be making headlines around the country when he got caught eating a donut he hadn’t paid for. [More]
