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The Top Ten Stupid Criminals of 2007
A policeman’s job is never easy, but dumb criminals make it somewhat easier. This list was whittled down from a much longer list of stories of the stupid things lawbreakers did this past year. These are in chronological order instead of rank. The dates are from the news stories; in some cases the crime itself happened earlier. Most of the links have accompanying video.
1. Lottery Thief Sets Himself on Fire
ROME, GA June 2
A convenience-store thief got away, but the video from the security camera told a strange, strange tale. A man broke into the store overnight, and tried to cover his tracks by burning the place down. He threw charcoal lighter fluid around, but by the time he ignited it, the fumes had permeated the store, and he set himself on fire. While in flames, he grabbed a roll of lottery tickets and fled. At the time of the story, police were looking for a man with facial, neck, and possibly wrist burns.
2. Ten Hours Stuck in Restaurant Vent
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL June 8
An employee of the Lucky Buffet noticed a strange sight on arriving at the restaurant. There were legs hanging out of a vent over the grill! 45-year-old Billy Jordan had tried to enter the restaurant the night before by climbing through the ductwork, but became stuck and stayed there for ten hours. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue workers used a rope to pull Jordan back out through the roof, after which he was arrested for burglary.
3. Immovable ATM
MILWAUKEE, WI July 27
Three men backed a stolen vehicle through the glass front of a gas station. Their intent was to steal an ATM. But they didn’t realize that ATMs are bolted to the floor. After some thought, they tied a rope around the machine and attched it to the vehicle, but still could not dislodge it. They left empty-handed. The ATM was still in working order the next day.
4. The Famous Duct Tape Bandit
ASHLAND, KY August 13
Police say Kasey Kazee entered Shamrock Liquors and attempted to rob the store. Employees were astonished that he had disguised his face by wrapping it in duct tape! The store manager chased him out with a baseball bat and an employee held him in the parking lot until police arrived. Police removed the duct tape after taking pictures, and arrested Kazee, who denied any memory of the incident.
5. The Sign of the Crime
ADLINGTON, ENGLAND September 6
Peter Addison and his friend Mark Ridgeway vandalized the Toc H centre, a children’s campsite building. They smashed crockery, set off fire extinguishers, and drew grafitti on the walls. Part of the grafitti said “Peter Addison was here.” Police found Addison through a computer database. Both teenagers pled guilty and were ordered to pay for the damage.
Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: “This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table.
“There are some pretty stupid criminals around, but to leave your own name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit.”
6. He Didn’t See the Cop
LITTLE ROCK, AR September 7
21-year-old Langston Robins walked right past a uniformed police officer at the Metropolitan Bank and handed a robbery note to the teller. The unarmed would-be robber was arrested after a foot pursuit. Little Rock police spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings said:
“I just don’t know why he didn’t see a uniformed police officer standing basically right in front of him,” Hastings tells the Associated Press. “My guess is he’s just not the brightest of people.”
7. He Stole a Car to Turn Himself In
GENEVA, NY September 13
29-year-old Vincent Estrada Junior was pulled over because the car he was driving had been stolen from a parking lot. Estrada explained that he had stolen the car in order to drive to the Geneva City Police Department and turn himself in on a family court warrant! He didn’t make his destination, as police took him to the Ontario County Jail instead, where he was held on car theft charges.
(image credit: Ontario County Sheriff’s Office)
8. Burglar Falls Asleep Under Victim’s Bed
WHITLEY BAY, England September 17
Usually, the burglar robs the house while the victim is asleep, but in this story, the roles were reversed. 24-year-old Mark Smith sneaked into Heather Stephenson’s home, crept past her while she was ironing, and rifled through her belongings in the bedroom. Then he fell asleep under her bed. Mrs. Stephenson couldn’t wake him, and police officers had to drag him out from under the bed. Smith’s vodka and valium consumption were to blame. He received an 18-month sentence for burglary.
9. Cash My Million-Dollar Bill!
PITTSBURGH, PA November 9
A man flew into a rage at the Giant Eagle supermarket when employees refused to cash a million-dollar bill. 66-year-old Samuel Porter slammed an electronic machine on the counter and refused to give his name to authorities. He was then taken to the Allegheny County Jail. The largest bill currently in circulation is the $100 dollar bill.
Bonus: It happened again soon afterwards in Georgia!
(image credit: AP)
10. Carjacking at a Crime Scene
RALEIGH, NC December 11
There had been a stabbing, and police were on the scene talking to a woman who had been a witness to the crime. 38-year-old Anthony William jumped into the woman’s car and drove away! He was arrested the next day, easily identified by the cops who saw him steal the car.
Source: Neatorama
The JibJab Year in Review: 2007
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Meet the man with blue skin
PAUL Karason puts a whole new spin on “feeling blue”. For more than a decade, the 57-year-old has been living with a blue face.
Fourteen years ago, Karason developed a bad case of dermatitis, which results in swollen, reddened and itchy skin. He started self-medicating, using a treatment called colloidal silver, which is made by extracting silver from metal.
Often touted by manufacturers as a cure-all, colloidal silver usually is found in a liquid form. Looking for relief, Karason drank the concoction and rubbed it on his skin something the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not recommend.
His skin slowly turned blue.
“The change was so gradual that I didn’t perceive it and other people around me likewise,” said Karason.
“It wasn’t until a friend I hadn’t seen in several months came by my parent’s place to see me and he asked me ‘what did you do?.’”
The FDA does not consider colloidal silver safe or effective to treat any disease or condition. In fact, taking it could have serious side effects, such as:
ARGYRIA which is an irreversible blue-gray discoloration of your skin, nails and gums
SEIZURES and other neurological problems
KIDNEY damage
INDIGESTION
HEADACHES
FATIGUE
SKIN irritation
Karason, who recently moved from Oregon to Californa, said it hasn’t been easy living with blue skin.
“I do tend to avoid public places as much as I can,” he said.
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These men are concreting solid steel pillars to stop vehicles from parking on the pavement outside a sports bar downtown. They are cleaning up at the end of the day. How long do you think it will be before they realize where their vehicle is parked?
Bengal Nurses Piglets Dressed In Tiger-Striped Coats
BANGKOK, Thailand — What do you get when you mingle piglets with a tiger or tiger cubs with a pig? Motherly love.
At least that’s what a zoo in Thailand found out after placing several piglets with a 6-year-old bengal tigress.
The bengal feeds the piglets, which were dressed by zoo workers in tiger-pattern coats, and across the cage tiger cubs are fed by a sow.
Zoo officials said the animals have been interchanged with parents for the past few years.
Officials said the reason for the experiment is to amuse visitors.
Giant rat species found in Papua forest
A giant rat and a pygmy possum, both believed to be new to science, have been found in an ecological ‘lost world’ hidden in the pristine cloud forests of New Guinea.
Dr Ucok holds this 1.4 kg giant rat that is probably a new species.
The huge rat - about five times as large as a sewer rat - had no fear of people and regularly wandered into a camp set up by scientists in the remote region of Papua, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea.
In contrast, the Cercartetus possum was shy and ranks as one of the world’s smallest marsupials.
Both creatures were found by scientists from the US-based group Conservation International and the Indonesian Institute of Science, which led an expedition to the Foja mountains of eastern Papua in June.
It is extremely rare to discover new species of mammal, particularly one as large as the Mallomys rat.
“The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat,” said Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
“With no fear of humans, it apparently came into the camp several times during the trip.”
A 2005 expedition to the same stretch of jungle - dubbed by Conservation International as a “Lost World” because of its remoteness and biological richness - found dozens of exotic new species of plants and insects.
On this most recent trip, the scientists also recorded the mating displays of several little-known birds for the first time, including the golden-fronted bowerbird and the black sicklebill bird of paradise.
They also observed a “lost” bird of paradise, Berlepsch’s six-wired bird of paradise, last seen by outsiders in the 19th century.
The expedition was accompanied by a National Geographic photographer and a camera crew from the American network CBS.
“It’s comforting to know that there is a place on earth so isolated that it remains the absolute realm of wild nature,” said Conservation International’s vice-president, Bruce Beehler, who led the expedition.
“We were pleased to see that this little piece of Eden remains as pristine and enchanting as it was when we first visited.”
The Foja Wilderness is part of the great Mamberamo Basin, the largest untouched tropical forest in the Asia Pacific region.
The province of Papua - not to be confused with neighbouring Papua New Guinea - boasts more than 100 million acres of tropical forest and some of the richest bio-diversity in the world.
The Indonesian government has declared the region a National Wildlife Sanctuary, but surrounding areas are under threat from clearing for palm oil plantations as well as rampant illegal logging.
The scientists plan another expedition to the area in late 2008 or 2009, when they expect to discover more species of mammals, frogs and butterflies.