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| One criminal broke into the
basement of a bank through a street-level window. In the
process, however, he suffered from several lacerations. After he
realized that he could neither get the money nor climb back
through the window from whence he came, the robber panicked.
Realizing he was going to bleed to death if he did not get help,
he located a phone and dialed 911. The rest, as they say, is
history. |
A man from the town of Grand
Forks, North Dakota, decided to travel to Fargo so that he could rob
the First Community Bank. The criminal quickly scribbled a note
demanding money and gave it to the teller. Frightened, she gave the
man what he asked for and watched him run out of the door. Police were
called and searches of the surrounding area turned up nothing. Upon
reviewing the ransom note, it was noted that the message had been
written on the perpetrator's bank deposit slip. Police traveled to the
man's house and arrested him on his front porch.
| ID Badges |
| Long Beach, CA |
| During their lunch hour, several
employees of a large aerospace company decide to rob a bank. The
group figured the police would never look for them at the plant.
Of course, being dumb criminals, they forgot to removed their ID
badges during the robbery. |
| No License |
| Durham City, England |
| In England a gang hired a man to
drive their getaway car for a series of bank robberies. As the
gang came fleeing out of the first bank with several bags of
money, the man panicked, causing the car to stall. Police
arrived in minutes as the man desperately tried to get the car
to start. In court, it was revealed that not only did the man
not have a driver's license, he had never operated a vehicle
before. |
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| France |
| Recently in France, two
criminals decided it would be genius to break into a bank from a
neighboring building. They decided to drill through the wall so
they could reach the banks vault. After hours of exhausting
labor, they finally broke through. Upon entering the room,
however, they discovered that had miscalculated the location of
the vault and were instead standing in the middle of the
restroom. |
| Alabama |
| A Man decided to rob a K-Mart by
cutting a hole in the roof a lowering him self down with a rope.
Once inside he pulled down the rope and helped himself to every
thing he wanted. When he had what he wanted he decided it was
time to leave but realized that he couldn't get back out. He
went and got a latter from the home and garden center but it was
a little short but he climbed up any way the latter sliped and
he fell and broke his leg and had to lay there till the store
opened. After he got out of the hospital he was sent to jail. |
| Kentucky |
| Two men tried to pull the front
off an ATM by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of
their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the panel off the
machine, however, they pulled the bumper off the truck. Scared,
they left the scene of the crime. Their bumper, along with their
license plate was still attached to the ATM. |
| Indiana |
| A man walked up to a cashier at
a grocery store and demanded all the money in the register. When
the cashier handed him the cash, the man fled--leaving his
wallet on the counter. |
A man went into a drug store and announced his intentions to commit
robbery. He pulled a Hefty-bag over his face to conceal his identity.
He did not, however, cut eyeholes in the mask and was tackled by a
brave customer.
A man convicted of robbery worked out a deal to pay $9600 in
damages rather than serving a prison sentence. He gave the court a
check--a forged check. He was sentenced to ten years.
A man carrying a woman's purse was picked up on the street as he
matched the description of a purse snatcher reported just a few
seconds earlier. The policeman told the thief that he would be taking
him to the woman for positive identification. When they returned to
the scene of the crime, the criminal said, "Yes, that is the lady
I robbed all right."
A man in Belgium was arrested because police suspected that he had
robbed a jewelry store. The man swore he did not do it. When the
police asked if he had an alibi, he explained that he had been busy
breaking into a school at the same time. Police dropped the jewelry
store charges and instead arrested him for breaking into the school.
Natron Fubble tried to rob a Miami deli, but the owner broke
Fubble's nose by hitting him with a giant salami. Fubble fled and hid
in the trunk of a parked care. The car, however, belonged to an
undercover police team that was trailing another criminal. After five
days, the officers heard Fubble whimpering in the trunk and arrested
him.
Dale Richardson went into a restaurant and snatched a woman's
purse; Claire McCaskill's purse--Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney.
After making off with the purse, the criminal called the prosecutor's
house and offered to return to the purse for a $250 reward. McCaskill
agreed and when the suspect showed up, he was promptly arrested
A man burst through the doors of a building and yelled, "This
is a hold up." Though he had meant to rob the post office next
door, the man had burst into his local police station.
| Germany |
| Deciding that Oil of Olay was no
longer doing the trick for her, a woman decided that she would
become a modern-day Cleopatra and bathe in camel's milk. The
woman went to her local zoo and transported a camel back to her
house; the came was a male. |
| Mexico |
| In Mexico, three-armed corrupt
police officers surrounded a car and demanded money. They did
not realize that in the car was the Mexican president's son.
They realized their mistaken when a car full of presidential
bodyguards showed up and overpowered the officers. |
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