Category: Crime
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Quick Thinking
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/31/news/state/70-purse.txt">Girl helps catch purse thief</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 16-year-old girl whose purse was stolen from a local pool conned the thief into giving it back and set her up to be caught by police at the same time.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is an example of thinking quick on your feet. Negotiate with the people that stole…
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How To Commit Crimes And Get Away With It
The answer is simple, be a short person.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JUDGES_SENTENCE_HEIGHT?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Sentence for short sex offender draws fire</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A judge's decision to sentence a 5-foot-1 man to probation instead of prison for sexually assaulting a child has angered crime victim advocates who say the punishment sends the wrong message.<br />n<br />nBut supporters of short people…
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Evil Exposed
Talk about cold, cruel, evil people.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR2006052201359.html">Two Elderly Women Jailed In Deadly Insurance Scam</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Two elderly women devised a complex plot in which they befriended homeless men, took out life insurance policies on them, and then killed the men in hit-and-run accidents in alleys around Los Angeles to collect $2.2 million in…
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I’ve Been Violated
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060522/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/veterans_disk">Personal Data of 26.5M Veterans Stolen</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Personal data, including Social Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans, was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month after he took the information home without authorization, the department said Monday.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWhat the hell did this asshole need with this information at home!!I though this…
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Call It What It Is
<a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12428975/">Unauthorized adoption placement?</a> Selling a human being is <u>slavery</u> pure and simple. Throw the son of a bitch in jail for the rest of his life. I can't belive people like this breed. Trying to sell your own kid should merit the death penalty by slow, painful strangulation. If you don't want the child…
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Criminally Stupid
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060420/od_nm/breasts_dc">Phony doctor gives free breast exams</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on Thursday.<br />n<br />nOne woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all…
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Mismanagement? I Kind of Doubt it
<a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060309-1507-livestockfraud.html">Government won't pursue official who stalled livestock pricing probes</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Agriculture Department has decided not to take action against a former agency official who blocked investigations into predatory pricing in the nation's $120 billion livestock trade.<br />n<br />nGross mismanagement, not criminal conduct, by JoAnn Waterfield is to blame for several years of obstruction,…
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Obscene Calls
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_fe_st/obscene_calls_arrest">Man Accused of Making 2,623 Obscene Calls</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>James R. Hood, 43, was charged with one count of compelling prostitution, or offering money for sex. He posted bond and was released from the Coshocton County jail, the sheriff's office said Wednesday.<br />n<br />nHood was arrested earlier this week following a joint investigation by sheriff's…
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Abuse
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/noose.jpg'><img width='165' height='220' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/noose.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a><a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/01/news/local/32-abuse.txt">2 Billings women charged with abuse of boy</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Two Billings women are accused of burning an 18-month-old boy with cigarettes and causing other serious injuries that could prove fatal, a county prosecutor said at the women's court appearance Tuesday.<br />n<br />nStephanie Janie Plainbull, 22, and…
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How Not To Treat An Animal
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PUPPY_DRUG_SMUGGLERS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">N.Y.-bound puppies used as drug couriers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Colombian drug dealers turned puppies into couriers by surgically implanting them with packets of heroin, federal authorities said Wednesday.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSome of the ways they find to get drugs into the country are amazing but this is something else. I do like the irony of what is…