-A crook in Morgantown, West Virginia, who had comitted several crimes in the area, wanted to know if the police suspected him. He asked two policemen if there were any arrest warrants for him. Unluckily for him, there were.
-Two 40 year old crooks stole a 500 pound safe from a lodge. While the lodge was phoning the police, the two men dragged the safe outside, and attempted to put it in the back of their escape vehicle. They didn't get that far. The police captured them before they could figure out how to strap the safe to the back of the bicycles that the two had ridden up to the lodge.
-A man in Boise, Idaho, stole a dog at gunpoint, and put the gun in his back pocket. He drove away with the dog. While he was driving, the gun began to bother him. As he adjusted it, he shot himself in the butt. He tried to get the gun out of his pants, but he shot himself in the butt again! He was hospitalized and arrested as soon as he was well again. The dog was returned.
-A man kidnapped a child and left a ransom note for her parents. He had written it on his own personalized writing paper, complete with his name, address, and phone number! The parents called the police, and the man was caught that day.
-Two cousins in Buffalo, Ohio, went to a library carrying a pillow case. They went up to the librarian there and said "Put them all in,". The police arrived and arrested the two. However, no one could figure out why they chose to rob the library. The only explanation the police came up with was that "They must have forgotten that the bank was on the other side of the street, directly across from the public library."
-In Florida, Ronald Bradley stole from many local stores for a long time. The police finally caught him. Bradley admitted to putting on gloves during break-ins to hide his identity. The police showed him a item with his fingerprints on it. He showed them the gloves he had worn. The gloves he had worn were the ones that you wore for golf, the ones with no fingertips! |
