Compliments to the chef!
For several years, a man has been eating at Iowa restaurants from Cedar Falls to Cedar Rapids and then sneaking out without paying the bill. He continued to do so even after local newspapers printed articles about him featuring his photo. Staff recognized him at a restaurant in Davenport, and followed him when he walked outside. He said he just went out to have a smoke but he didn’t have any cigarettes.
HE COULD BE FACING A DIFFICULT RE-ELECTION
... The mayor of Achille, Okla., and his roommate, who were both high on meth, crashed a car into a ditch, and walked 15 minutes to a house in Calera, which they began to burglarize when the homeowner woke up, pulled a shotgun on them, and held them for police.
SHE WAS GETTING TO BE TOO MUCH
... A 52-year-old man who vanished from his home in Pisa, Italy, turned up in Scotland two days later, wandering through a cathedral in Edinburgh, and claim- ing he had no idea who or where he was. But after cops in Italy found searches on his computer for “how to disappear” and “how to fake memory loss,” he admitted he faked amnesia to escape his “nagging” mother-in-law.
OH, THERE YOU ARE, COME WITH US
... A heavily intoxicated man, who was wanted in three jurisdictions in Virginia, drove a stolen pickup truck hauling a trailer holding another stolen pickup truck into Stafford and crashed into 10 vehicles. He got out and scaled a metal pipe up the side of a restaurant onto the roof. and hid in an air conditioning unit, where the cops found him.
SOMETHING AMUSING YOU, SIR?
... A man trying to smuggle edible marijuana from Canada into the United States apparently thought it was funny that he was being interrogated by border authorities, texting his friend Max, “lol bro I just had 100mg edible and I got stopped by customs and now they’re asking me so much (expletive).” They ultimately arrested him.
HOW DID YOU CATCH ME!?
... A convicted felon in Creighton, Va., went live on Facebook flashing a stolen gun, apparently unaware that law enforcement officials routinely monitor criminals on social media.
YOU SEEM UPSET, SIR
... A man poured his drink on the counter and knocked over a cash register at a restaurant in British Columbia after a staff member got his order wrong. This was all caught on video, and he was arrested about two weeks later.
THIS DID NOT GO AS PLANNED
... Three men attached a chain to an ATM in a store in Portland, Ore., at 4:30 in the morning and yanked it out with their pickup truck. They almost immediately crashed into a nearby bus.