Hi, here’s a true story from Finland:

Turku, Finland, April 2010 A man was found dead under a platform behind a shopping mall. He had been there for days. He had been crushed under a loose hydraulic moving platform that can be adjusted to unload trucks easier.

Police had a hard time to identify the man since there was no missing persons reported to the police at the time. Finally, a man from Estonia, working in Finland came to police and identified the deceased as his co-worker who had been missing for a while. They had been in the mall and then the co-worker had mysteriously vanished. But how did he end up under the platform? Finally the police was able to solve the mystery.

The man had intentions to steal the electric motor moving the hydraulic platform. Unfortunately, as he unfastened the wrong bolts, the heavy metallic platform dropped killing him instantly.

The police commented: “He sure was no professional criminal”.

At about 0330 hrs, on a warm summer night young Pte BLOGEN’s was stopped by a Military Police patrol who observed him merrily weaving back and forth along a German provincial highway.  As a result he was arrested for impaired driving, processed on the breathalyzer, charged for Impaired Driving and being Over the legal limit. After having his driver license suspended pending his trial (usually 90 days), and ordered not to return to his vehicle, Pte BLOGEN’s was turned over to his unit and driven home. Read the rest of this entry »

Powell stabbed a 16-year-old female and her 14-year-old sister, leaving the stepfather to find them when he got home from work., one girl survived the attack, the other did not. Powell was originally convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2000, but the Supreme Court of Virginia tossed out the conviction.

Justices ruled that the attacks on the girls were separate crimes, and did not rise to capital murder. Read the rest of this entry »

A local Texarkana, TX fellow had a brilliant idea to make money stealing a car, intending to take it to a Dallas chopshop. Ole’ Fudd isn’t the brightest spark plug in town, though. 

He went to the Honda dealership, asked to test drive a car, then went to Wal-Mart and made a copy of the key.  Later that night he went back, unlocked the car, cranked it up and drove away.  Clean break. 

He got to Dallas without any trouble and that’s where his lame brain got him in the soup.  He stopped  at Dairy Queen and ordered a meal. He then decided to jack the restaurant for the price of his HungerBuster.  He drove away and the manager called the police.  When he was pulled over it was discovered that the car he was driving was stolen. 

He, of course, was charged with absconding with the burger and felony auto theft.  Way to go, Fudd!

One of our all “Canadian Hero’s went out on the town in Lahr stopping at one of the many pubs for a beer. Feeling pretty good he made his way on foot towards the 1-2-3 Club. On the way he passed a large furniture store, up the street from the Bereitschaftspolizei -4 (German Police Academy - 4) where he decided to “liberate” a large flag as a souvenir. 

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A 39 year old man was arrested on the main south-north highway in Australia, up at the northern end. The cops pulled him over and found that apart from driving in an erratic manner, and speeding (10mph or so over the 80mph/130kph limit), he had two marijuana plants in the back seat. There were also two smoking implements and a loaded gun. In the boot (trunk) was more marijuana.

He was also masturbating and filming himself, which had led to him driving erratically and the interest of the police. He confessed at the scene that he’d been filming himself masturbating for the thousands of kilometres (over a thousand miles) he’d travelled up from Adelaide in the south. He also admitted that he didn’t have a driver’s licence. He pleaded guilty in court to dangerous driving and was fined $2,000. He’d previously been gaoled until next August on the other charges.

A tenacious police dog and a telltale mullet haircut left no doubt among sheriff’s deputies in Kitsap County, Washington, that a 28-year-old South Kitsap man was the person who walked into a neighbor’s home uninvited the morning of June 21.

A 22-year-old resident of Port Orchard dialed 911 just after midnight to report that “a man with a mullet” had entered his home uninvited and refused to leave, according to reports.

The resident told deputies that he had invited some friends over to his new place along the 900 block of Retsil Road East. The man with a mullet, whose name was not released, and his friend walked up to the house with a case of beer and asked if they could party with them.

The homeowner said no and the men left on foot. Ten minutes later, the man with the mullet came back and forced his way into the home. He pushed the homeowner aside and went into the living room, trying to mingle with the people inside, reports state.

The group of people pushed out the man, who the report alleges was drunk. He returned, saying he was a sheriff’s deputy in an attempt to be allowed into the house. The homeowner locked all of his doors and windows to prevent the man from coming inside.

When deputies arrived, they used a police dog to track the man’s scent. They found him sitting outside his home along the 2500 block of East Third Street.

The man said that he wanted to say “hi” to his new neighbors, but did not admit to going inside the house. He later said that he went inside, but didn’t push anyone. Then he recanted, saying that he never went inside, according to reports.

He was arrested on suspicion of burglary and taken to the Kitsap County jail. As of this writing, he’s being held on $25,000 bail.

Police in Jacksonville, Florida, say that they found a man who stole 10 pistols and six rifles from a gun store there hiding in a trash bin behind a Taco Bell.

When officers responded to a burglary at Shooters of Jacksonville in the early morning hours of June 22, they reported seeing a Ford Mustang quickly pull away from the business with its lights off. The vehicle eventually pulled into the Taco Bell parking lot where it crashed into a pole. A security guard saw the driver, identified as Rodwick Jewing Dowston, jump into a trash bin behind the restaurant, where police eventually caught Dowston.

Dowston has been charged with burglary, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and resisting arrest. As of this writing, bail has not been set.

An escape attempt from the Alton, Texas, city jail failed miserably when one inmate crashed through the ceiling and into the police chief’s unoccupied office.

As of this writing, two inmates accused of escape are being held in the Hidalgo County Jail on bail totaling $105,000.

Police say that the two males, identified as 17-year-old Jesus Albert Suarez Chavez and 22-year-old Roman Orozco Martinez, tried to flee through the air conditioning system around 3:00 AM June 21, but a dispatcher monitoring surveillance footage spotted them.

Alton Police Chief Baldemar Flores told The Monitor, a newspaper in nearby McAllen, that the vent is small. The second inmate was trying to get into the vent, according to police.

Chavez and Martinez are in jail on charges of burglary of a vehicle, evading arrest, resisting arrest, assault on a public servant and making a terrorist threat.

A man in Bristol, England, has been captured on tape stealing a navigation system from an undercover police car — for the third time!

The man, identified as 21-year-old James Milsom, was videotaped breaking into the cruiser, just six weeks after he was freed from prison for stealing a similar device from another unmarked police car.

As mentioned above, this was the third time that he had been caught in identical thefts in a mere four months.

Footage showed that it took him only six seconds to smash the window and grab the navigation system from a cruiser before escaping in daylight. (Some guy running through the streets with a satellite navigation system in broad daylight is likely to attract attention, isn’t it?)

But Milsom’s face was caught on camera as he leaned through the smashed window, giving the cops a clear image of their suspect.

Avon and Somerset police came up with the idea of “covert capture” vehicles, which contain hidden cameras the size of a pinhead, after a string of high-value thefts from cars.

Superintendent Ian Wylie said, “Some of the photographs we have got from the cars have been excellent images.

“There is no doubt who the thief is and what they are doing. When faced with such evidence there is no other way to go than ‘guilty’.”

The cars are now parked around the high-crime areas of Bristol in an attempt to catch the most prolific criminals.

Magistrates there have sentenced Milsom to 14 weeks behind bars.