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Seems that a year ago, some Boeing employees on the field decided to steal
a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out
of the plane and home. When they took it for a float on the River, they were
quite surprised by a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them.It turned
out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator that is activated
when the raft is inflated. They are no longer employed there.
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I worked for a while at a Wal-Mart store, selling sporting goods. As an employee
of Wal-Mart you are sometimes required to make store wide pages, e.g.,"I
have a customer in hardware who needs assistance at the paint counter." One
night a tentative female voice came over the intercom system with the (I
kid you not) following message: "I have a customer by the balls in toys who
needs assistance."
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A true story out of San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank
of America, walked into the branch and wrote "this iz a stikk up. Put all
your muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note
to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note
and might call the police before he reached the teller window. So he left
the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo After waiting a
few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read
it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn't the brightest light
in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stick up note because
it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either
have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America.
Looking somewhat defeated, the man said "OK" and left. The Wells Fargo teller
then called the police who arrested the man a few minutes later, as he was
waiting in line back at Bank of America.
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A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured
his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received in the
mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent
the police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he received
a letter from the police that contained another picture - of handcuffs.
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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 news paper and wanted to
buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the thief was arrested.
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Oklahoma City: Dennis Newton was on trial for the armed robbery of a convenience
store in a district court when he fired his lawyer. Assistant district attorney
Larry Jones said Newton, 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 have 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 recommended
a 30 year sentence.
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Guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all the
cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber
saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He
told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but he refused and said "Because
I don't believe you are over 21." The robber said he was, but the clerk still
refused to give it to him because he didn't believe him. At this point the
robber took his drivers license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk.
The clerk looked it over, and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and
he put the scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his
loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address
of the robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours
later.
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A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers.
The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the startled
first bandit shot him.