How did you catch us so fast?
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.