theft

In what could be called a “reverse prison break” thieves managed to infiltrate a prison’s administration building and make off with a 50-inch plasma screen TV in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Police were only alerted to the theft after firefighters were called to fight a blaze in the administration...

Not these two peeps… Sook Shin and Ralf Jankecht are cancer researchers at the Oklahoma University. Sadly for cancer patients everywhere (both present and future), the laptop they hadn’t backed up, and that contained the only copy of a possible cure for prostate cancer, was stolen when someone snatched...

A pair of miscreant Florida burglars got the shock of their life after breaking into a woman’s home and stealing what they thought was an urn full of cocaine and/or heroin.  Turns out the urn was full of the ashes of her deceased father.  The thieves also took a...

A wire mesh sculpture that used rolled up dollar bills to spell out the word “honesty” was stolen from the art gallery of a Minnesota college. John Ilg’s conceptual piece had been displayed twice before and had survived the 2008 Minnesota State Fair. Unfortunately for Ilg, the weeks that...

A Washington burglar decided to rub some salt into his victims’ wounds by posting a picture of himself with their stuff on their Facebook page. Marc Fisher, a reporter and editor at the Washington Post, reported that sometime between the hours of 10 a.m and 12:45 p.m. last Friday,...

Well, if you’re going to steal sausages from a supermarket, that’s as good a place as any. Not only will nobody frisk you there, female shoppers may become so enamored, you may score a few phone numbers. Or you’ll get arrested–just like this guy. A 38-year-old man was arrested...