Dumb and Dumber: Bandits rob a bank, pose with loot, get arrested
Grinning stupidly for the camera and brandishing the proceeds of their
ham-fisted raid, two Australian bank robbers demonstrate why they earned
themselves the nicknames "Dumb and Dumber."
Anthony Prince, 20, and Luke Carroll, 19,
were jailed last month after pleading guilty to the bungled raid on a
bank in Vail, Colorado. Carroll got five years in a tough US prison and
Prince 4½.
Federal prosecutors have released
photos the pair took of each other
joking in the toilets of a McDonald's shortly after stealing $170,000 in
cash and terrorising bank tellers with fake pistols.
They were captured the next day after leaving a trail of clues, which
investigators said made their job laughably easy. Prince and Carroll had
been regular customers at the bank and although they were wearing
masks, the tellers recognised their broad Australian accents.
The Goat who got arrested for armed robbery
A vigilante group in Ilorin, Nigeria apprehended a group of would-be car thieves, including
one man who "turned himself" into a goat.
The mysterious goat, according to the Police Public Relations Officer,
Mr. Tunde Mohammed, while briefing bewildered journalists at the Force
headquarters, is an armed robber who attempted to snatch the said car,
and later "transformed" into the goat in a bid to escape arrest.
"While one of them escaped, the other was about to be apprehended by the
team when he turned his back on the wall and turned to this goat. They
quickly grabbed the goat and here it is." Mohammed said.
The police spokesman said the goat "armed robbery suspect" will not be
left off the hook until investigations into the case are concluded.
The 88-year-old Grandma who got arrested for not returning a kid's ball
Edna Jester,
an 88-year-old grandmother, was arrested by the police last October
2008, when she refused to return a neighborhood boy's football that had
landed in her front yard.
A frustrated Edna took the football last Thursday evening after it
landed, once again, in the yard of her Blue Ash home, where she has
lived since April 1949. When Jester refused to return the football,
neighbor Paul Tanis, 40, called the cops. Though police warned that she
would be arrested unless she returned the football, Jester refused,
according to the below Blue Ash Police Department report.
The petty theft bust was the first arrest for Jester, who has been
widowed for about ten years.
The Man who got caught having sex with a picnic table
In March 2008,
Art Price Jr. was arrested after a witness observed him turn over a metal picnic
table and performe a sex act upon it. This is the latest occurrence of
Mr. Price engaging in sex with furniture. On four other occasions
neighbors had witnessed Mr. Price copulating with other outdoor
furniture. Price faces up to four charges of public indecency.
The Man who got arrested for shouting naked at trees
Dieter Braun,
43, from Recklinghausen said the stress "release" technique had worked
perfectly until he was arrested.
It was his marriage guidance counsellor who advised him to run around
naked shouting at trees.
"For me it's a type of relaxation therapy" he said. "Feeling the breeze
on my naked skin really calms me down."
But local police said other visitors to the forest did not find his
behaviour relaxing and have now charged him with causing a public
nuisance.
The Boy who got arrested for opening his Xmas gift too early
A
South Carolina boy,
12, was arrested on December 2006 after his mother called police to
report that he had unwrapped a Christmas present without her permission.
According to a Rock Hill Police Department report, the child opened a
Nintendo Game Boy, though he had been directed not to by family members.
When the boy's mother learned that the $85 gift had been opened, she
called cops, who charged the juvenile with petty larceny. In an
interview with The Herald newspaper, the boy's mother, a 27-year-old
single parent, described her son as a disruptive child, noting that she
hoped his arrest would serve as a corrective to disorderly behavior at
school and home.
The Deaf man who got arrested for swearing at police in sign language
Balraj Gill, 31, who is deaf without speech, was arrested by police
after he swore at them in sign language- and although he made no sound,
he has admitted breaching the peace.
Officers had taken Gill back to a hostel where he was supposed to be
staying but until a worker translated his sign language for them, they
had no idea what he was trying to say.
The worker told officers every swear word Gill had signed at them.
A police officer told
reporters:
"The officers could tell he was angry, but didn't know what he was
saying. I suppose he's unlucky hostel staff were on hand to translate."
The Woman who got arrested for selling pierced cats
Holly Crawford,
34, pierced black kittens in the ear, neck and tail and then marketed
them as "gothic" over the internet before she was charged with animal
cruelty.
She was trying to sell the kittens online for hundreds of dollars, PETA
said. The Pennsylvanian woman said she didn't see the difference between
piercing a cat or human, and pleaded not guilty.
The Man who got arrested for farting at policeman
Jose Cruz,
34, was arrested on September 2008
and charged with assault after he allegedly broke wind on a police
officer.
Police say they were fingerprinting Cruz, when he moved near Patrolman
T.E. Parsons, lifted his leg and passed gas "loudly" on the officer.
Cruz then allegedly waved the air in the direction of Parsons, who was
preparing a breath test machine at South Charleston police HQ, West
Virginia.
The Man who got arrested for having sex with street signs
Police in Sioux Falls South Dakota arrested 60 year old
Verle Peter Dills
after catching him performing various sex on a traffic sign in another
residents yard. After searching his home, police found a “large amount”
of videos showing Dills having sex with various traffic signs. Dills has
been charged with burglary, unlawful occupancy, and six counts of
public indecency.
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