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High Schooler Changes Fellow Student's Name in Yearbook to Lewd Term, Gets Busted

Donald Deane — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:25:21 +0000

Missouri high school student Kaitlyn Booth probably thought she was pulling off the mother of all pranks when she changed a fellow student's last name to an offensive term in the school's yearbook, but now the joke's on her. Booth has been arrested and could be charged with a felony.

Father Arrested After Letting 9-Year-Old Daughter Drive Car

Donald Deane — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:45:06 +0000

In our experience, parents generally let their small children drive when they're too drunk to drive themselves. But a father in Ohio was apparently stone cold sober when he let his 9-year-old daughter drive the family car. Can't blame alcohol for this one, dude. That dumb decision was all yours.

Mom Puts Three-Year-Old Son Up for Adoption on Craigslist

Donald Deane — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:53:44 +0000

Craigslist is a great resource for meeting people and buying and selling almost anything. But when it comes to giving away children, there are probably better ways. That didn't stop a Texas woman from offering her three-year-old for adoption on the service, however.

Woman Assaults Boyfriend For Singing 'Thrift Shop' Over and Over

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:40:54 +0000

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' smash hit 'Thrift Shop' in undoubtedly a very catchy song. But is the ode to finding bargain basement prices a good song?

Therein lays the problem for many folks, including Samanta Malson of Longmont, Colorado who now faces jail because 'Thrift Shop' really got under her skin.

Woman Arrested For April Fool's Day Robbery Prank

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:23:23 +0000

It’s becoming harder and harder to pull a good April Fool’s Day prank. We blame the internet for this, as not long after you log on you are reminded of the tricky nature of April 1 and thus put your guard up. One way to circumvent the new always-in-your-face April Fool’s reality is pull the [...]

Drunk Woman Takes Off Pants, Flee Cops In Toy Power Wheels Truck

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:25:37 +0000

Jamie Craft of Jonesboro, Arkansas has herself quite a Tuesday.

The 28-year old kicked of her midweek adventure by getting good and drunk and crashing her Trans Am into the side of a mobile home. Mind you this was a proper, adult sized Trans Am, which becomes important later in this tale and also made what she did a pretty serious crime.

Man Calls 911 Nine Times to Request a Cheeseburger

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:29:04 +0000

There is just something about fast food that makes people abuse 911. In the past, folks have been arrested after calling emergency services to report problems with their orders at Burger King, McDonald’s, Subway and Hardee’s. Gregory Jackson Sr. decided to cut out the middleman. Instead of going to his local restaurant chain to be disappointed, [...]

Woman Loses Tooth In Burglar's Hand

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:30:42 +0000

Police in the Cayman Islands are on the look out for a local woman’s tooth. They may well find it still stuck in the hand of the man who “stole” it from her. What had happened is the woman awoke early Friday morning to find a burglar in her house. The thief tried to silence her screams [...]

Thief Arrested After Trying To Ransom Stolen Lemur

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:10:34 +0000

James Edward Welborn Jr. probably didn’t have primate theft on his mind when he broke into Julie Harris’s home in Mobile, Alabama. But there was Gizmo, a two-year old lemur, and Welborn allegedly snagged it along with Harris’s TV. The problem with stealing an exotic animal is that it is much more difficult to pawn off than [...]

World's Creepiest Mom French Kissed Jailed Son to Pass Him Drugs

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:42:50 +0000

Things got awkward when 54-year-old Kimberly Margeson visited her 30-year-old son William Partridge at the Yates County jail in upstate New York. That’s because the big open mouth kiss mom planted when greeting her boy included quite a bit of tongue. (“So that’s how it is in their family,” we can hear Mr. Rooney say.) But there [...]

Rude Girl Flips Off Judge, Gets 30 Days in Lockup

Emerald Catron — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:15:06 +0000

Left on her own without legal representation, this girl (who was awaiting arraignment for a first arrest) was in over her head. It probably also didn't help that she didn't get the sobering reality of being physically present in court to knock some sense into her, since this is a video arraignment taking place from jail, where she is nervous and surrounded by other inmates. Oh, and it doesn't help that this judge is clearly some kind of jerk.

Braying Getaway Donkey Foils Robbery

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:28:41 +0000

Three thieves wanted to knock over a small shop in the Columbian village of Juan de Acosta. For their getaway, they enlisted the services of a donkey. Or stole the service is more like it, as they had snatched 10-year-old Xavi from his pen 12 hours earlier. This proved to be a very bad idea. The [...]

Drunken Thief Was Too Bombed to Rob Little Caesars

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:15:45 +0000

Like so many of us have done, Ryan Hopkins made a bad decision while drunk. Unlike the rest of us, he decided to rob a Little Caesars. But the stick-up didn’t go quite the way he had (probably not) planned. It got off to a good enough start — Hopkins stumbled into a Lexington, Ken., [...]

YouTube Prankster Hauled to Jail for Giving Wedgies

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:14:58 +0000

Charles Ross has been caught with his pants down because his victims were caught with their pants up. Way up. Ross, 18, was arrested Sunday, for giving people wedgies outside a movie theater in Bradenton, Florida. Ross isn’t some overgrown high school bully; rather, it seems he was filming the spree to post on his [...]

Police Arrest Teen Thief by Following Trail of Cheetos to His Front Door

Donald Deane — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:35:41 +0000

As any thief worth his salt knows, a clean getaway is absolutely essential. Well, a South Carolina teen recently botched a robbery in a big way after police followed a trail of Cheetos right to his front door. (While that's not the thief pictured above, authorities should still be on the lookout for a hungry cheetah in human clothing.)

Subway 'Sandwich Artist' Fired Over Ketchup Dispute Gone Awry

Emerald Catron — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:57:31 +0000

Maybe Subway is stepping up their game a tad. They've made it abundantly clear that they now have avocados and sriracha sauce, and they will NOT be putting ketchup on anybody's sandwich. At all. They don't even have ketchup, and one employee was willing to fight to prove it. They don't call them sandwich artists for nothing.

Naked Samurai Goes on New Year's Day Rampage

Donald Deane — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:17:49 +0000

While most of us rang in the new year with a noisemaker and a drink or two, 29-year-old Coco Bennett celebrated by brandishing a samurai sword in front of police. Oh, and he was stark naked too, of course. According to reports, several San Jose residents called 911 after witnessing Bennett standing in front of [...]

Clerk Foils Robbery by Being on the Phone

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:35:58 +0000

The clerk at the Sheridan Mini Mart in East Bremerton, Washington probably isn’t the world’s greatest employee. In fact, when a woman came into the store at 10 PM Thursday night the slacker-in-question wouldn’t stop talking on his phone as she tried to grab his attention. His conversation was so engrossing that he didn’t even care that she [...]

2012′s Dumbest Criminals Are Painfully Dumb

Emerald Catron — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:24:33 +0000

It turns out to make it onto a list of the dumbest criminals, you have to actually be pretty dumb. Granted, we can't all be masterminds, but it probably doesn't take much to know you shouldn't make a YouTube video boasting about the bank you just robbed. Or tweet about punching a guy in the face. Nor should you get into a fist fight over a piece of birthday cake.

Homeowner Catches UPS Man Stealing Daughter's Just Delievered iPad

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:48:32 +0000

Al Alverson didn’t get the iPad mini that he had ordered through FedEx. However, the blame for the non-delivery rested squarely on UPS. The Houston, Texas man had been notified by Fed Ex that the iPad, which was to be a gift for his daughter, had been delivered while he was at work. But when [...]