Category: Theft
Doughnapped.
Kidnappers have taken the Pillsbury Doughboy and are threatening to bake him. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 4th, 2006.
Boeoegg.
Snowman effigy burned annually to celebrate the killing of Winter’s evil spirit has been kidnapped by a radical Swiss militant group. (via)
Post date: Monday, April 24th, 2006.
SelectaDNA.
Invisible DNA-based substance acts like permanent marker by staying on marked valuables for up to 30 years.
Post date: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006.
Great Train Track Robbery.
German thieves steal 5 kilometers of railroad track.
Post date: Monday, February 6th, 2006.
Sticky situation.
Gumshoes finally nab the bubblegum bandit. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 30th, 2006.
Sami fleshscraper.
Norwegian museum anonymously receives relic 42 years after it was apparently stolen and has ‘no idea’ what the object is. (via)
Post date: Saturday, January 7th, 2006.
Kleptomaniac.
Woman being charged with theft steals camera that took her mugshot photo. (via)
Post date: Saturday, December 17th, 2005.
Hip ‘n’ stitch?
Man is reunited with wallet forty years after it was stolen. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 21st, 2005.
Honest crook.
Man robs coffee stand then pays for coffee with the stolen money.
Post date: Tuesday, October 11th, 2005.
No prisoners.
Colorado man commits suicide while being questioned by police about a stolen bicycle.
Post date: Thursday, October 6th, 2005.
Payroll deduction.
British banker borrowed £7 million from his employer.
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Stuck in gear.
Wannabe car-jacker that could only drive an automatic stalls out when stolen vehicle turns out to be a stick shift.
Post date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2005.
Covering your tracks.
How leaving your electronic hotel room key behind when you check out could leave you open to identity theft. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 20th, 2005.
The easiest arrest ever.
By taking pictures with a cell phone they stole, thieves in Argentina unknowingly published themselves on the stolen phone owner’s personal Web page.
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
Lo-tech bandits.
Thieves in Austria bust open a safe with a passenger train.
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
One-legged bandit.
Man test-driving a prosthetic leg walks off without paying.
Post date: Saturday, August 27th, 2005.
Point of view.
I’m not a thief. I’m a person who is addicted to shopping with stolen money.
Post date: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005.
Airheads.
Be careful not to put diesel fuel in your unleaded engine when trying to steal gas.
Post date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005.
Read how they did it.
Thieves in Brazil tunnel under a bank and heist $85 million.
Post date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2005.
Genius photographer.
Criminal mistakenly takes and leaves photo of himself at the crime scene.
Post date: Tuesday, July 5th, 2005.
Piggly wiggly.
Shop owner calls friends first to laugh at botched theft attempt, then calls police.
Post date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2005.
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