Russians are crazy. This is a well documented fact if you’ve ever seen a video of their football hooligans facing off. Less of a ‘fight’ and more of a ‘world war’ would be the way it was described. However, that pales into insignificance when you hear how their farmers take spud thieves.
You see, there is [...]

£61,000 – that is how much money this couple managed to get away with over a 3 month period from a broken cash machine in their area, and I bet they thought they would get away with it. Think again, suckers!
The machine was not recording transactions for accounts with unauthorised overdrafts and when they discovered [...]

Burglars are not usually renowned for their lateral thinking abilities and superior intelligence, especially those who get caught in the act. This case makes all of them look like MENSA members when compared to it, though – a man who robbed the houses of his neighbours on the street he lived on. Yes, it’s a [...]

Some criminals never seem to learn, do they. They get caught once, and they just keep on getting caught doing the same thing. This is definately the case with a guy in San Francisco.
The man, a hair stylist apparently (I never knew they were so bad-ass), got caught having stolen a car. He had a [...]

Thieves are everywhere. They’re in your town, your neighbourhood, your house. Yes, behind you, kick him in the soft bits! Now he’s dealt with – hope you checked for your car keys – I shall entertain you (hopefully) with some stories of stupid and just weird robberies in recent memory…
A restaurant in California had a [...]

Usually if you don’t pay a bill, whatever it was for is liable to be repossessed. Dont pay your mortgage, your house gets taken. Miss a few car loan payments, bang, there goes your car. If its a credit card they simply go into your house, look at what you have, halve its real value [...]

It can be ammazingly inconvenient to have lost your camera, or if it is stolen: the loss of pictures is a big one, along with the loss of an expensive piece of equipment. However, all is not lost, as one woman found out.
She had left her camera behind in a restaurant (ok, that is her [...]

A shopkeeper in the US has been using his own novel method of stopping the plague of shoplifters who come into his shop regularly. He simply tells them to either hand over their shoe or he will call the police, relying on the fact that people would rather lose a shoe than be hauled in [...]