A woman in Gloucester, UK, filed a life insurance claim on her husband's
$550,000 policy, because he had died in Afghanistan of brain trauma after
an accident. She had the death certificate to prove it.
You would think a dead man would not need to see his doctor for anything.
But, yet, the husband showed up at his general practitioner a few weeks later.
He had also been living openly in Gloucester, working and paying taxes.
They were both sentenced to community service because (1) they were
"less than sophisticated," in other words, dumb and (2) no money was lost.
Makes you wonder about justice.
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A former employee of a Pizza Hut tried to extort $500 for five car roof
signs that he took while he worked there. You know, the kind the pizza
guy (or gal) puts on top of their car when they go delivering pizzas.
The manager told him he wanted proof that he really had them. So the
guy emailed him a picture. Only problem was, the police were able to
zoom in on the license plates of two cars in the background which were
registered to the guy.
He was charged with extortion, possession of stolen property and grand larceny.
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An 85-year-old woman heard someone break into her home one Sunday
afternoon. She calmly walked past the teenager and into her bedroom
where she got a .22 caliber gun she kept there. Then she came back out,
pointed the gun at him and made him pick up the phone and call the police.
She kept the gun pointed at him until the police arrived. The boy was
charged with attempted burglary.
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A man in Texas left his car running outside while he robbed a drug
store of Zanax and hydrocodine. He ran outside to his get away car
only to discover that he had locked the keys inside in the ignition.









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