is it a crime of fashion?

Sometimes ugly ideas lead to ugly crimes!

Thanks to Tex Spevjo from the Renton Riviera, you can click here to see what some halfwit did with a Snuggie.

city slicker

Valentine, Nebraska. Pop: 2,650. Beginning more than a year ago, some man has been skipping from one business to another at night, pressing his naked behind — sometimes his groin, sometimes both — on windows. Store owners, church workers and school janitors have had to wash lotion and petroleum jelly off the windows he selects. During one particularly brazen session, virtually all the windows at a local hotel were imprinted. Police Chief Ben McBride said no one has reported seeing the vandal in action. The only clue is a blurry picture of him caught by a surveillance camera at the middle school last year.
The man was 6-feet-tall or slightly taller, and slender. He had a dark complexion, and McBride said the man's dark hair was styled in a "1980s, feathered look." Uh, the hair on his head, right?

candyland

The young owner of a chocolate shop in Berlin was arrested for selling drugs, as well as drug-laced candies and confections to the public. Police confiscated 120 pieces of magic mushroom chocolate, 70 sachets filled with assorted drugs, 20 joints, jars of drug-laced honey, and tons of lollipops made with cannabis. Hmmm...sugar and hallucinogens...reminds me of a game I used to play years ago...

high stakes table

Very often I have faithful subscribers send in stuff they wish I'd post here. In fact, it's difficult sometimes to meander through the hundreds of emails I receive and get to deciding on which ones to post! I couldn't pass this one up though. Thanks to Heather in Seattle for her contribution.

4 wheels, 1 bottle

An Australian man was arrested and charged with drunk driving...his wheelchair. On his way back home from boozing it up at a friend's house, this man was found slumped over in his wheelchair on an exit ramp with traffic swerving to get around him. Police clocked his blood alcohol level at 6 times the legal limit. In addition to him being handicapped, he's also handy at gettin' the cap off the bottle! (wow, that was a cheap joke)

drunk in Kentucky

A 24 year old in Kentucky got the nickname "Duct Tape Bandit" when he decided to get wasted, cover his head in duct tape, and knock over a liquor store. When he (inevitably) was tackled out in the parking lot, cops found no weapons on him at all, and 2 rolls of coins scattered on the pavement. The till came up short $15 that evening.
Here is a precious video of the bandit retelling his view of what went down...from the slammer:

so a tree walks into a bank...

A nearly 50 year old man in Manchester, NH decided to rob a bank 'disguised' as a tree. He used duct tape to secure tree branches to his head and apparently that is where the costuming ended. Perhaps this particular bank has many patrons of the arbor variety. I know I've never seen a tree standing in line to cash a check or deposit funds at any bank before. ever. This bank's security team must be really proud of themselves since the dude made it home with bank money before getting nabbed by the cops. You gotta give this guy credit though, because (wait for it), he really went out on a limb to rob that bank!