Arkán’s Wacky Crime of the Day

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

This is Arkán’s Wacky Crime of the Day, where I shall try to post a strange but true crime daily. I am instigating this on The Soda Shop, Campbell County, and The Town of Odyssey. Because there are some people I know on all these things which are on only one, and I wouldn’t want to deprive them. I have been planning on this for a while, so hopefully I won’t run out of material. Unfortunately I may miss a day now and then and all, but hopefully I will then post two the next day. I hope you enjoy these all you Soda-Shoppers.

#I “I don’t.” Mauro Pirelli of Vicenza, Italy, was a jittery bridegroom.
Two hours before his wedding he had his hair cut. While seated in the barber’s chair, he anxiously considered his future as a husband.
As his doubts worsened, inspiration struck.
He borrowed a car, speed to nearby Thiene, and climbed into a second-story window.
He clumped and clattered to make sure the homeowner heard him. Then he left a trail even a blind detective couldn’t miss.
The police arrived in the nick of time — as Pirelli was going into the church to be married.
“I attempted a robbery just to get arrested and avoid the wedding,” Pirelli confessed at his trial.
A panel of judges found him guilty of attempted robbery but withheld a prison sentence.

[ArnoldtheRubberDucky]

Bizarre... This is an interesting idea, Arkán. I look forward to more of these.

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#II He’s alive and kicking, isn’t he? The law finally caught up with Cristina Echvarria, a lady of many addresses. Among her offenses: practicing medicine without a license, and billing Medicaid for treating a 220-pound football player for diaper rash.

[Aaron Wiley]

This is hilarious. Where are you finding these stories? Are they really true?

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#III It’s the reel thing. A thief in Canton, China, suffered from catching a cola.
Yup, a cola, not a cold.
Guards at the Chrysanthemum Guest House nabbed him as he sipped a soda he had just reeled in.
Police identified him as the celebrated “fishing burglar.” He specialized in pulling valuables through hotel windows with a fishing rod.

They are 100% true. And I will keep my source secret for now.

[ArnoldtheRubberDucky]

These are ridiculously funny, Arkán!

[Suzy Lou Foolish]

Agreed with Mr. Thinker! These are quite entertaining, and a bit unbelievable!

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#IV The layered look. Two Senegalese crooks learned clothes don’t always make the man. Sometimes they make the prisoner.
The pair broke into a clothing shop in Paris and waddled out with lots of stylish threads. The cops quickly spotted them. The two men were dressed in a total of fourteen leather vests, three jackets, one coat, and six pairs of trousers.

-- Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:45 am --

#V Trial by file. For two years Astred Greene flew the world free, saving herself an estimated $40,000 in air fares. She masqueraded as a flight attendant.
Greene got aboard overseas flights by walking past the gate agent, who took her for a member of the crew. One mistake did her in. She was too good at the job. Passengers wrote letters to the airline praising her helpfulness.
An office worker decided to start putting the letters in Greene’s personnel file. Whoops, no file.

[Odysseygirl101]

I agree with Mr. Thinker on this one.

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#VI Unforgettable 1. “All I can remember about him is, he was stark naked,” said Anne Barkley of Tampa, Florida, when asked to describe the man who stole her purse.

#VI ½ Unforgettable 2. “Well, he had big eyes,” said Ellie Ford of Charleston, South Caralina, when asked to descried the Peeping Tom she saws at her window.

[Suzy Lou Foolish]

Oh my goodness, it's bad enough to have your purse stolen...but by a naked man! Horrors!

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#VII Join the dinar’s club. In 1987, five tourists from West Germany were arrested for lighting their cigarettes with 100-dinar bills in the Koral Hotel in Umag, Yugoslavia.

One of the five tourists took pictures of the lighting for laughs. A hotel employee became so angered that he called the police. The film was held for evidence.

A judge fined the tourists the equivalent of $30 each and denied them “Yugoslav hospitality” (that is, the freedom to visit the country) for three years.

A 100-dinar note was worth about 15 cents.

[Tea Ess]

These are great, Arkán!

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#VIII Cash and carry. Two women selected $419 worth of clothes in a department store in Heath, Ohio. They paid with a fake $1,000 bill.
The bill bore the phrases “A. Phony-bill” and U. [censored].”
The store [censored]. It was too large a bill. So a clerk took one of the women to a neighboring store.
No one there noticed anything unusual either, and the women walked off with their new clothes and $581 in real money.

-- Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:11 am --

#IX All wet. Boyd Cross of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, came home from work to eat lunch and found a burglar in his bedroom.
Cross grabbed a gun, which he kept for protection. In the struggle with the burglar, the gun went off, wounding Cross’s waterbed and flooding the house.
The burglar sprinted away with nothing except wet feet.

-- Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:19 am --

#X Omagatron Thanks, we needed that. Fifteen Democratic committeemen were gathered in Denver to assign subjects for the state platform in the November election.
“Who’s going to take crime?” asked the chairman of the resolutions committee. No one answered.
He repeated the question twice, but got no takers.
Finally he said, “Someone has to take crime.”
At that, three men charged into the room, took everyone’s money, and charged out.

Omagatron = This was scheduled for much later but I moved it to here because I thought perhaps people would find it funnier at election time.

-- Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:32 am --

#XI Look away, look away. As part of a class project, three high school students got the okay from the manager of a Chicago department store to shoplift goods in full view of his customers.
The students made out like bandits.
“They must have taken at least four hundred dollars worth of merchandise,” said their teacher.
During the three hours the students played their roles, there were more than 100 customers in the store. At least half saw the “shoplifting.” The students got one dirty look. The rest of the customers either looked away or walked away.
“I’m totally amazed,” their teacher said. “I thought maybe fifteen percent would report them. The indifference underscores what we’re seeing more and more — a society that doesn’t want to get involved.”

-- Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:05 pm --

#XII Bridge anyone? “Good thing the road is tied down,” said a police spokesman after someone stole a 20-foot timber bridge that spanned a canal near Bunnell, Florida.

[Samantha14]

Baha! These are great!! Do you plan on reviving this topic anytime soon, A? =)

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XIII Hold ‘em, roll. Mrs. Tillie Tangleber’s restaurant in New York City served hard rolls. Hard as in haarrrd.
Early on a winter night Alexander Godwin, a barber, sat down at a table by the window facing the street. He ordered a cup of coffee and one of those hard rolls.
He had buttered the roll and was raising it to his mouth when things went crazy. A stranger stepped close to the window, whipped out a gun, and fired.
Godwin didn’t have time to duck, and didn’t have to. He had the roll.
The bullet splintered the window and struck the roll, which snuffed its force to a driblet. Deadened instead of deadly, the bullet dropped into Godwin’s mouth, wounding him barely enough to draw blood.
The stranger apparently mistook Godwin for someone else and was never seen again.

[Samantha14]

As I said before, these are great! I'm glad you brought this back, and I can't wait for more. (:

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XIV All are not hunters who blow the horn. A Crime Stoppers TV program in Florida reenacted unsolved crimes with the hope that viewers who had information would tell the police.
Realism was the watchword. In one of the shows, a detective played the role of the robber of a milk store. A female rookie played his partner in crime.
Two weeks later a woman walked into police headquarters and surrendered. “You’ve got me red-handed,” she said. She thought the reenactment of the holdup was a film taken while the actual crime was being committed.

[Samantha14]

Oh my word! That is unreal...

These are great! As I've said, can't wait to hear more.

[Arkán Dreamwalker]

#XV Kiss and wow! Umberto Rizzo was a World War II airman when he kissed his sweetheart on a street corner in Messina, Sicily.
A policeman with no sense of romance reported his conduct.
Rizzo married the young woman, but it didn’t help. He received a suspended three-month sentence for “indecency in a public place.”
Forty years later the Italian Treasury Ministry decided that the sentence eliminated Rizzo, now 69, from a veteran’s pension.
Moreover, the Ministry demanded back the $8,500 already paid him.