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Old 10-12-2016, 14:51   #181
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Eau de H2SO4? Sounds quite exotic...

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Re: Thick as thieves?

A convicted burglar who pinched a bus and immediately smashed it into metal railings told police: “I don’t know why I did it.”
Bungling Stephen Andrew Pope left the £5,500 bus beyond repair after the bizarre theft, on June 16 this year.
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Re: Thick as thieves?

This gem from the Spectator
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One client of mine, whom I shall call Blofeld, decided to murder his wife.

I do not wish to advise readers as to the best methods for such a crime, but they tend to the prosaic: poison, strangulation, bludgeoning, etc.

Blofeld decided to finish off his missus by firing a homemade, 4ft-long rocket into her car as she drove through a wooded copse on her way home from work.

After painstakingly building his weapon in the shed, he placed it on a custom-built launch frame and angled it towards the road. To ensure it was fired at precisely the correct moment, he positioned himself on the other side of the road, facing the rocket, with a remote control gizmo in hand. Then he lay in wait.

A few minutes later, his wife’s car drew into sight. The moment it was level with Blofeld he pushed the button. Instantly, there was a flash and a roar as the rocket flew towards its target.

It would have been the perfect murder, too, had it not been for one key flaw: his wife’s car was 50 yards up the road by the time the rocket reached the desired point.

Worse, the rocket flew on and smashed into the tree behind which Blofeld was hiding, and exploded with an enormous bang.

The resultant fireball engulfed him, setting fire to his hair and beard, and he was still bandaged up like a mummy when the judge gave him 20 years.
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Bungling Sean Crawshaw, 47, came a cropper while targeting the property in Radcliffe, Manchester.

The hapless crook was left dangling 15ft in the air after becoming wedged in bathroom window

He was discovered by the stunned occupant of the house, a woman in her 60s, when she returned home from a trip to the shops.

Crawshaw’s head was completely stuck through the window, with his knees on the windowsill – around 15ft off the ground.

The householder dialled 999 and police and fire crews came to remove him.

He was later arrested and has now been locked up for the offence that toook place on December 16 last year.

Crawshaw, of Radcliffe, Manchester was jailed for two years and four months after pleading guilty to burglary with intent to steal.
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Old 04-02-2017, 11:25   #185
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When a gambling addict failed to get a job at a Birmingham bookies, he held it up at gunpoint instead, making off with £17,000.

But bungling Umar Mirza was rapidly collared – because he had left his CV, containing all his personal details, with the boss.
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Old 21-08-2017, 22:10   #188
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Re: Thick as thieves?

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You couldn't make this up...
I do feel sorry for their victims but this Manchester gang really could have tried a tad harder to not showcase their lack of brain cells.

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Two bungling armed robbers stormed a packed bar and demanded cash - only to find it full of cops holding a police retirement party.

The masked men allegedly demanded cash from the register at a pub in Baltimore, US on Tuesday evening while a group of officers gathered for a sergeant's retirement.

Monaghan's pub owner Jack Milani told The Baltimore Sun that the men demanded cash from the register and then took off.

Some of the off-duty officers attending the retirement party chased down the men and arrested them nearby, the department said.

Joseph McInnis III, 21, and Tyree McCoy, 22, face charges of armed robbery and possession of a handgun.

The owner of Monaghan's Pub said it was odd that someone would attempt a robbery because the police station is directly across the street and many of the officers are regulars.
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That's a classic.
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How about these two crooks:

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A "greedy" couple made "fake" holiday sickness compensation claims while boasting about holidays full of "sun, laughter and fun", a court heard.
Deborah Briton, 53, and partner Paul Roberts, 43, were jailed at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting fraud.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...yside-41609527

Glad they got done.
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A thoroughly unsavoury character.
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Crimewave ended when thick thief swam into Manchester Ship Canal and took his clothes off
Officers caught up with Bates shortly after midnight on Friday, June 2, when he was chased near the Bridgewater Expressway in Runcorn down to Mersey Road, where he ditched his bicycle and swam out into the Manchester Ship Canal, waving his knife in the air and warning police not to arrest him. Hypothermia set in and he began removing clothes and asking for something to drink, the court heard. A police officer left a bottle of water by the canal’s edge and Bates was arrested when he tried to retrieve it.
All those crimes were committed while Bates was on bail for stabbing his flatmate with a steak knife after he asked him to move his bike out of their kitchen because he was cooking.
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Birmingham burglary suspect trapped in takeaway vent

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Perhaps they've been hanging around with stupid criminals to long and it's rubbed of on them

Sources say it started when two special ops officers from the 12th Precinct were operating a "push off" on Andover near Seven Mile. That is when two undercover officers pretend to be dope dealers, waiting for eager customers to approach, and then arrest potential buyers and seize their vehicles.

But this time, instead of customers, special ops officers from the 11th Precinct showed up. Not realizing they were fellow officers, they ordered the other undercover officers to the ground.

FOX 2 is told the rest of the special ops team from the 12th Precinct showed up, and officers began raiding a house in the 19300 block of Andover. But instead of fighting crime, officers from both precincts began fighting with each other.



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Sources say it started when two special ops officers from the 12th Precinct were operating a "push off" on Andover near Seven Mile. That is when two undercover officers pretend to be dope dealers, waiting for eager customers to approach, and then arrest potential buyers and seize their vehicles.

But this time, instead of customers, special ops officers from the 11th Precinct showed up. Not realizing they were fellow officers, they ordered the other undercover officers to the ground.

FOX 2 is told the rest of the special ops team from the 12th Precinct showed up, and officers began raiding a house in the 19300 block of Andover. But instead of fighting crime, officers from both precincts began fighting with each other.



http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/loca...-op-gone-wrong
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