Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has confessed to being the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, had some statements to make at his arraignment on Thursday (June 5): First, he looks forward to becoming a martyr. Second, the U.S. legal system is…
Before too long there will be enough material of this kind to create a separate category or gallery of Bad Disguises. Previous candidates would include the Duct Tape Bandit and the Tree That Robbed a Bank, and to those we…
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Saying he was planning to start a record company, Charles Fuller tried to cash a large check at a bank in Fort Worth last week. Problems with this story included: One does not normally start record companies using cash; and…
The improbably named "Kasey G. Kazee," better known to history as the "Duct Tape Bandit," pleaded guilty on April 29 to robbing a Kentucky liquor store. The robbery failed despite the fact that Kazee had carefully prepared for the robbery…
New York prosecutors dropped charges today against two men who had been charged with a number of offenses resulting from an attempt to cash a Social Security check in January. The problem, as you may recall, was the body they…
“You’ve got an arrow sticking out of your head, bro.”
A man’s woodshed is his castle’s outbuilding. Or something like that.
A 31-year-old Estonian thief who escaped from a Finnish prison on February 29 was "recaptured" a week later, but only after going to some trouble to arrange it. It’s not entirely clear whether Martin Vaiksaar had decided he wanted to…
Act One.A small town in Oregon. Two men in "cowboy garb," Adam and Vincent, are eating doughnuts. Enter two sheriff’s deputies. DEPUTY ONE: A burglary has been reported.DEPUTY TWO: Yes, we must hurry to the scene of it.VINCENT: …