Arkán’s Wacky Crime of the Day

[Samantha14]

Oh, goodness... That's unreal.

[Suzy Lou Foolish]

I'm glad you brought these back, too! Haa! They are fabulous.
"Hold 'em, roll." oh my wordyy...thats just ridiculous! As for the last one...well, gee. Expensive kiss. Hope he enjoyed it while it lasted.

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XVI Hidden assets. In 1937, Joseph Mancini, a New York City druggist, saved $6,700 because he always wore long underwear, winter and summer.
Mancini had just sold his house for$68,000, and was carrying the $6,700 cash deposit. As he and his attorney entered a cab, two men shoved in behind them.
The attorney managed to jump as the cab slowed for a corner. The thieves jumped too, with Mancini’s pants.
Mancini told police that he had hidden the $6,700 in the leg of his underwear. The thieves got only the $15 in his pants.

[Samantha14]

Ahaha! That is unreal. Clever man, I might add. Of course, what sort of twisted criminal steals a man's pants, I will never know... Can't wait for more. =)

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XVII Know a woman by the companies she keeps. Dumbest Victims of the Year award for 1912 went to the Hoboken, New Jersey, merchants who paid a smartly dressed woman for the goods she stole from them.
Maisie B. Copeland was a wholesale shoplifter. After a few days, she would return the merchandise and coolly demand a refund in cash.
The merchants made good though they were somewhat puzzled. She had no sales slips, and they had no record of the sales.
Copeland swindled thousands of dollars before store owners began swapping notes on a lady customer they could never satisfy.
She was taken to the Central Police Station, where, like a lady of quality, she promptly swooned to the floor.

-- Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:41 pm --

#XVIII Sad but true. In 1930, the villagers of Zude, Poland, were convicted of stealing a forest.
The women did not appear in court, but the village’s 68 men did. They said they had cut down the nearby municipal forest to use as fuel. Otherwise, they would have frozen during the winter.
The judge fined them and sentenced them to brief terms in jail. He warned them not to steal any more trees.
“Your honor,” one villager replied. “That is impossible. I myself took home the last tree within miles and burned it.”

[Samantha14]

Wow... Simply wow. Aha, some people. (;

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XIX Time on his paws. A watch salesman in a shop in Shanxi, China, was being watched by the police.
He had become the prime suspect when watches began disappearing left and right.
Just before the police pounced, another salesman moved the watch counter.
Underneath was the real thief — a rat dwelling in a hole shinning with 27 watches.

[Samantha14]

Aha, I've heard of incidents like this before. Pack rats are horrid little creatures that cause nothing but trouble. Glad they caught the real thief before it was too late.

[Connie_Kendall]

These are so funny!

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XX It wooden work. Nevin Curtis had stopped for a red light in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, when two thugs jerked open his car door. One of them seized him by the leg and tried to drag him out.
Curtis stomped on the gas and whizzed off. The shocked pair were left in a blast of exhaust — holding Curtis’s artificial leg.
Although the leg cost Curtis $1,625, its resale value was small. It was made to his measure.

[Samantha14]

OMW, that's priceless! Wow. The nerve of some people...
Well, you get what you deserve in that instance. Too bad it cost him, but in the end it all worked out.

Can't wait for more. =)

[Connie_Kendall]

Oh. my. word. That is unbelievable To funny!

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XXI ‘Hose guilty? Alfred Higgs of Portland, Oregon, said a nagging wife drove him to a life of crime.
After nine years of marriage, Higgs had had enough of her henpecking. He reached for a hose.
Oh, no, he didn’t beat his wife. He unscrewed the nozzle and held up three stores at nozzlepoint.
“It was a spur of the moment thing,” Higgs told the judge. “I had been nagged so much by my wife about getting money, so I tried it.”

[Samantha14]

*Dies laughing* OMW, that's hysterical!!

[Connie_Kendall]

THAT IS HILARIOUS!

[Kaida]

Haha! That one's great. Keep 'em coming, Arkán.

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XXII Sleeper. Two men with clubs forced their way into the apartment of Juan Sanchez.
Sanchez, who lived in a public housing project in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, told the thieves he had nothing of any real value.
Unwilling to leave empty-handed, they took apart Sanchez’s bed, loaded it on top of their car, and drove away.

[Samantha14]

Oh, dear... *Laughs* What sort of twisted mind? ...Nevermind...

[Suzy Lou Foolish]

Thats dreadfully rude! Of all things!

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XXIII Can do. Manfred Dreschler collected nickels, bottle by bottle and can by can.
He stole more than 60,000 empty, used bottles and cans from a warehouse in Geneva, New York. By turning them in at a redemption center, he collected the five-cent deposit on each and every one.
Investigators estimated that between 1980 and 1982 his piggy bank took in as much as $21,000. The sum represents about 400,000 bottles and cans.