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Crime doesn't pay!!

  • 19-11-2004 10:48am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭


    Crime Doesn't Pay


    When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked
    on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police
    arrived at the scene to find an ill man curled up next to a motor
    home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man
    admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his hose into the
    motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle
    declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd
    ever had.

    ***
    A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was
    a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone
    and told the guy that answered that he had read the ad in the
    newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the
    thief was arrested.

    ***
    David Posman, 33, was arrested recently in Providence, R.I, after
    allegedly knocking out an armored car driver and stealing the closest
    four bags of money. It turned out they contained $800 in PENNIES,
    weighed 30 pounds each, and slowed him to a stagger during his
    getaway so that police officers easily jumped him from behind.

    ***
    Drug-possession defendant Christopher Johns, on trial in March in
    Pontiac, Michigan, said he had been searched without a warrant. The
    prosecutor said the officer didn't need a warrant because a "bulge"
    in Christopher's jacket could have been a gun. Nonsense, said
    Christopher, who happened to be wearing the same jacket that day in
    court. He handed it over so the judge could see it. The judge
    discovered a packet of cocaine in the pocket and laughed so hard he
    required a five-minute recess to compose himself.

    ***
    Clever drug traffickers used a propane tanker truck entering El Paso
    from Mexico. They rigged it so propane gas would be released from all
    of its valves while the truck concealed 6,240 pounds of marijuana.
    They were clever, but not bright. They misspelled the name of the
    gas company on the side of the truck.

    ***
    Oklahoma City -Dennis Newton was on trial for the armed robbery
    of a convenience store in a district court this week when he fired
    his lawyer. Assistant district attorney Larry Jones said Newton, 47,
    was doing a fair job of defending himself until the store manager
    testified that Newton was the robber. Newton jumped up, accused the
    woman of lying and then said, "I should of blown your [expletive]
    head off." The defendant paused, then quickly added, "-if I'd been
    the one that was there." The jury took 20 minutes to convict Newton
    and recommend a 30-year sentence.

    ***
    R.C. Gaitlin, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing
    their squad car computer equipment to children in a Detroit
    neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the officers
    asked him for a piece of identification. Gaitlin gave them his
    driver's license, they entered it into the computer, and moments
    later they arrested Gaitlin because information on the screen showed
    that Gaitlin was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St.
    Louis, Missouri.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    this should be posted in the humour section!!! some good ones there though :)


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