Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Raymond, is that you?!
Remember that scene in White Men Can’t Jump where the guy needs money to cover a bet and robs a store around the corner where they immediately recognize him? Yeah, well it’s not just in the movies. Apparently, a guy in Alabama did roughly the same thing, only he robbed his own grandfather (allegedly) and slipped up by calling him “Pa-Paw.”
These types of stories pop up all the time, but January seems to be a banner month:
- A mother and son team who stole a boa constrictor from a pet store returned to the same store to buy a book about how to take care of … you guessed it … boa constrictors.
- Robbers on Long Island made off with a bunch of GPS devices from parked cars, but they didn’t unload the hot property fast enough. Police used the devices to establish the location of the suspects and arrested them.
- And following a robbery in Bed-Stuy, an armed assailant was caught in part because he left his cellphone at the scene.
And I'm not even including a certain weed-in-the-water-bottle incident that apparently never happened.
These types of stories pop up all the time, but January seems to be a banner month:
- A mother and son team who stole a boa constrictor from a pet store returned to the same store to buy a book about how to take care of … you guessed it … boa constrictors.
- Robbers on Long Island made off with a bunch of GPS devices from parked cars, but they didn’t unload the hot property fast enough. Police used the devices to establish the location of the suspects and arrested them.
- And following a robbery in Bed-Stuy, an armed assailant was caught in part because he left his cellphone at the scene.
And I'm not even including a certain weed-in-the-water-bottle incident that apparently never happened.
# posted by Budds @ 2:07 PM 
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Those are certainly good candidates for this year's Darwin awards.
That reminds me of the hedge fund manager in Greenwich (multi billionaire Ed Lampert) that was kidnapped a few years ago. The police found him and the kidnappers because the kidnappers used Lampert's credit card to order delivery from Dominos.
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That reminds me of the hedge fund manager in Greenwich (multi billionaire Ed Lampert) that was kidnapped a few years ago. The police found him and the kidnappers because the kidnappers used Lampert's credit card to order delivery from Dominos.
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