A semi-anonymous guy named Jim prevented a local grocer from being robbed today. Apparently short on time for his lunch break, he inadvertently interrupted robbery in progress at the fast checkout lane. Eyewitnesses say that Jim, who was identifi...
Following a rash in car break-ins during the holidays, the Shelbyville, Tennessee police department were stumped on what exactly to do as there were only so many officers to handle all the stores in the area. That was when Officer Fluke Fernburn...
A man wearing a tie-dyed ski mask with the words "Martin Willoughby" printed on the back entered the wrong bank yesterday, apparently confused after several hours of doing shots with some buds. All went well as he quietly entered the bank, his ski...
DB Cooper is back. The man famous for hijacking a plane in 1971, demanding $200,000 ransom, then parachuting into mythology has struck again. Changing his name to Marty Shrenker he made a new life for himself as a big investor in Indiana. Recentl...
When police called at the home of former "Scrabble" factory worker Reg Fox on an un-related matter, they couldn't believe their eyes. Reg, who has worked at the plant in Llandovery for 35 years, had hoarded an estimated one million plastic tiles,...
Authorities in Pensacola, Florida are looking for a shoplifter who was run over three different times by her getaway car after stealing $1,200 worth of designer purses from a Pensacola store. A T.J. Maxx security guard told police she saw a woman...
Police armed with Tasers were almost foiled by a thief wearing Wellington boots. Police were called to the Gorton branch of the TSB in the early hours of yesterday morning when the alarm was tripped. The station only being a hundred metres away, o...
Police in northern Idaho today arrested two men found leaving a hotel in the early hours of the morning with presumably a sackful of money. However the oddity of the situation starts here because the two petty thieves had also raided the Hotel's Chri...
LOS ANGELES, CA - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department received a call Thursday morning from someone claiming to be the Wizard of Oz, true owner of the so-called "Bahia Emerald." For several weeks, this giant 180,000-carat emerald has been th...
Two postal workers sparked a worldwide data theft alert after stealing a Christmas cake and replacing it with a different package. The courier workers gobbled the cake down and simply put its address label on a parcel that was supposed to be going...
Two female employees of a bookmaking shop in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, took on a robber who barged into their office. Nickola Kirk, 37, and Francisca Hamilton, 39, fought with the man, who decided he was outmatched and tried to run -- but found...
La Ville-Lumiere, France - Armed robbers stormed the Paris branch of jeweller Harry Winston and waltzed out with a cool $108 million in diamonds yesterday. The robbers were variously described by witnesses as four men, two dressed as drag queens o...
Police in Unganda have released a warning to travelers about criminal gangs in the country that use women to lure men into sexual trysts in order to rob them after they are rendered unconscious with chloroform smeared over the women's breasts. Po...
In Fort Lauderdale, Florida yesterday, police said a thief used a huge hocker to swipe an expensive ring off an elderly woman's hand in broad daylight. Authorities said two men bumped 81-year-old Gertrude Hagglemeire's car, then asked her to open he...
A cruise liner has reported that they have been boarded by Somali pirates and that several of their passengers have been pushed into the swimming pool, had water splashed into their faces and that one fat pirate did a cannonball that nearly cleared t...
The development of work on Liverpool FC's new stadium, Stanley Park, has been hit by a huge setback amid reports that the foundations had been stolen. Police released a statement on 22nd October confirming that a theft had "taken place in the earl...
A would be robber had his plans thwarted when a plucky boxing kangaroo sprang into action yesterday. The robber threatened cashiers at Crackers Brothers Circus and Freak Show in Morecambe, Lancashire, with a crossbow, telling them to put the day'...
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