criminal activity

A man in Batley, England who thought he was buying an iPad ended up with a dirty sack of potatoes instead. If we had a nickel for every time we’ve fallen for that old trick…

In New Martinsville, West Virginia, surveillance video captured a thief robbing a local store, then fleeing the scene on — get this — a motorized wheelchair.

A woman from Kissimmee, FL is facing both theft and child neglect charges for allegedly leaving two children in a car in the parking lot of a store where she was shoplifting.

NASA officials recovered a tiny piece of a moon rock in a raid targeting a 74-year-old woman who tried to sell it at a California Denny’s restaurant. The raid was the result of a five month investigation into the missing lunar material that netted a “speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice.”

Police in Michigan pulled an elderly man over during a routine traffic stop, and when he refused a search of his pickup truck, a drug sniffing dog found almost 228 pounds of cocaine in the back. Police then arrested 87-year-old Leo Sharp for possession of the drug.

Police in Berlin have finally arrested a man who was responsible for the burning of more than 100 cars in Germany over the last four months.

In what appears to be a combination of crime and fetish fantasy, a man in Dallas, Texas robbed an Exxon TigerMart while wearing a floral dress, white boots and with a pair of panties obscuring his face.

Thieves who made off with a semitrailer near Vienna, Austria better have a lot of hot dogs. The trailer, parked in a lot and stolen over the weekend, contained 21 tons of ketchup and mustard.

A new academic paper suggests that the proliferation of violent videos games over the past 20 years has contributed to the more than 50 percent decrease in violent crime over that time period. The paper’s authors analyzed published studies on the topic of violence and video games, and were able to conclude that “though there is evidence that violent video games cause aggression in a laboratory se