Tuesday, July 7, 2009

More odd news of crime...

May be this gets monotonous for you, odd news of crime, but now it looks to me as if this oddness is normal- except that there are varieties of oddness: you come across a new one every other day.

For example, why would anyone steal fake cells from a cell phone store?

Call it the case of the dead cells — both telephones and the ones in the brain. Employees at a Telefonica Movistar cell-phone store in Morelia, Mexico say they arrived Tuesday morning to find that the store had been broken into.
An examination of the shop revealed the only items missing were hollow replica phones for display that are completely useless for making calls.
Employees say the clueless thieves overlooked real cell phones and cash in another part of the shop.
-Yahoo! News

And why would anyone believe that a magic powder can turn water into wine?

A "magic powder" sold by a German company that allegedly turns water into Chianti wine is a dubious trick, angry Italian farmers say.
-UPI

May be the company that makes these powders is a regular reader of odd and weird news- they know there are people for whom idiots is not the right word.

See, if you are robbing a petrol station, would you forget you are running low on reserve?

Two Pennsylvania men robbed an upstate New York gas station and might have gotten away if they had remembered to fuel up, police said.
Lonnie Meckwood, 29, and Phillip Weeks, 51, were caught after their car ran out of gas about a mile from the station late Monday night, state police said Wednesday.
-newsday.com

And last but not the least odd, a man was arrested for living in the attic.

An Arkansas man who lived in a Pennsylvania family's attic for more than a week has been sentenced to jail time. Stanley Wayne Carter was sentenced Tuesday in Luzerne County Court to nine to 23 months in jail. He pleaded guilty in May to burglary, trespassing and other offenses.
In addition to living in the attic, Carter stole belongings from the Plains Township house while Ferrance and her children were out.
-Yahoo! News

2 comments:

  1. when milk, coffee & more in powder, why not wine.

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  2. may be to make wrong calls.

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