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A British man has learned the hard way taking the law into your own hands can backfire. Simon Cremer, owner of a flooring business, has been forced to pay 13,000 pounds ($20,000 CDN) for “humiliating” one of his former staff when he found out he stole from him. In...
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A German tourist found out the hard way policemen aren’t always trusted after five Filipino cops forced him to buy them laptops. Using threats of false criminal charges the law officials were able to extort the man who later reported it to his Embassy. It happened in Makati, the...
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A daring, five-foot-nothing grandma in a red coat sprints across a street in Northhampton and gives a gang of sledgehammer-wielding toughs a good dose “what a naughty, naughty boy”, knocking one of them from his scooter and interrupting a robbery-in-progress. Pay close attention as an officer enters the frame...
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A train robbery in West Bengal went horribly awry for a gang of 40 bandits armed knives, swords and pistols – when they encountered the sharp end of a retired Gorkha’s khukuri. The robbers stopped the train and were busy relieving passengers of their valuables when they came across...
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A would-be Russian suicide bomber is reported to have been detonated when an ill-timed message arrived on her phone to wish her a happy new year. The woman and two suspected accomplices (who are believed to be part of the same group that killed 35 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo...
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The limits of brotherly loyalty were tested in in China this week when a man was sentenced to life in prison for a crime that it seems he did not commit. In most countries you have to commit some sort of heinous, unspeakable act – in China you can...
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An elderly man was charged with misdemeanor battery for punching a teenager in the arm during a Southwest Airlines flight. The beef apparently arose when the teenager wouldn’t shut off his iPhone before the plane landed. Sixty-eight-year-old Russel Earl Miller is said to have become enraged on the Las...
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Twenty-seven-year-old Johnathan William Hartman found himself fronting Yellowstone County Justice Court by video for allegedly sticking a piston in his girlfriend’s mouth. It would seem karma had plans for Hartman, as he accidentally shot himself in the buttocks when he put his gun down the back of his pants....
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When a police chopper started to get on his nerves, a 58-year-old Floridan decided to do something about it and shone a bright green laser light into the cockpit that temporarily blinded the pilot and rendered his night vision equipment inoperable. The pilot, Greg Love, who was searching for...