Boston Herald

How did you catch us so fast?

- Mike PINGREE

In order to catch two thieves who stole about 100 GPS tracking devices from a tech company in Santa Clara, Calif., company officials simply activated the devices and provided police with software to track them down, which they did in a matter of hours. The cops recovered the goods along with drugs and other stolen items.

NOOOOO! ... A 71-year-old man who robbed a bank in Kansas City, Kan., to get away from his wife was sentenced to six months home confinemen­t.

SO YOU CAN SEE WHY THE COPS WERE SUSPICIOUS ... Police busted the proprietor of a car wash in Daytona Beach, Fla., for drug dealing after they raided the place and found lots and lots of drugs but no equipment for washing cars. IS THERE A PROBLEM, OFFICER? ... A who man fled the scene of a car accident after he hit a fire hydrant in Parsippany, N.J., drove off with it still lodged under his car. Police caught him by following the trail of water to his home. DARLING, I SWEAR SHE MEANT NOTHING TO ME ... A woman who mounted herself atop a fellow passenger on a flight from Manchester, England, to the party island of Ibiza, Spain, appeared to engage in sexual relations with a man she just met. When a video of the encounter went viral, it was revealed to the man's pregnant girlfriend who was waiting for him back home.

YOU AGAIN!? ... A man faked illness to get out of paying his bar tab at a restaurant in Guelph, Ontario, and had the staff call an ambulance to assist him. He was caught when they found out he had done the same thing at another establishm­ent earlier in the evening. CHEESE IT! THE COPS! ... Police responding to a report of a swarm of bees

near a bus stop in Forest Grove, Ore., said they didn't locate any bees in the area.

IS IT ME OR DO YOU SENSE THAT SOMETHING BAD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN? ... A car crashed through the front window of a restaurant in Virgil, Ontario, injuring two psychics who were having lunch there. YOU’LL NEVER CATCH

ME, COPPER! ... Police gave chase to a stolen flatbed delivery truck at 4:30 a.m. along I-59 south in Birmingham, Ala., but the thief didn't know how to drive a vehicle with a manual transmissi­on, and was unable to get it out of first gear. So the truck hit speeds of only 25-30 mph before the transmissi­on seized.

I WAS SIMPLY DOING

SOME RESEARCH ... A college coed, who was arrested for shopliftin­g at a Walmart in Gillette, Wyo., told police that she did it because she was working on a term paper about kleptomani­a. She had tried to leave the store with $1,900 worth of stolen merchandis­e, and had previously tried to steal three flat-screen TVs. WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S

NOT A CRIME!? ... A woman called 911 from the drivethru at a Waco, Texas, McDonald's because the staff took too long to serve up her Chicken McNuggets.

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