Really Stupid Criminal Tricks

[Fatman]

I'll start with probably the oddest and funniest thing I've read in a while:

Authorities: Burglar wakes men with spice rub

Mon Sep 8, 4:44 PM ET

Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.

He says deputies arrested Vasquez after finding a wallet containing his ID in the ransacked house.

The farmworkers told deputies the suspect woke them Saturday morning by rubbing spices on one of them and smacking the other with an 8-inch sausage.

Burrimond says money allegedly stolen was recovered.

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Information from: The Fresno Bee, http://www.fresnobee.com

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_fe_st/odd_sausage_attack;_ylt=Ak7xHb3zpwZVT1X9WKecUhAuQE4F

[Big Frank]

What the heck? That's so weird I had to email it to my friends. 

[Hazcat]

September 08, 2008

Kidnapping victim shoots abductors, killing one, deputies say

OLDSMAR -- Authorities say a Tampa-area kidnapping victim escaped capture by grabbing the gun of an abductor who was distracted by text messaging.

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is investigating the deadly Sunday night incident. Detectives say three men forced the male victim into their car at gunpoint. They hoped the victim would lead them to another man, with whom they were in a dispute over stolen coins. Authorities say the man sitting in the back with the victim laid his handgun on his lap while sending a text message. The victim grabbed the gun, fatally shot the man next to him and injured the one in the front passenger seat, authorities said, then ordered the driver to stop the car and called 911 after he escaped. Charges are pending against the two surviving suspects.


http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2008/09/kidnapping-vict.html

[pops1911]

I'll start with probably the oddest and funniest thing I've read in a while:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_fe_st/odd_sausage_attack;_ylt=Ak7xHb3zpwZVT1X9WKecUhAuQE4F

This could only happen in California - 'The Land of the Fruits & Nuts', unless it's Florida like the next item!!!! But at least we have reasonable CCW laws & Castle Docs.

[Big Frank]

This could only happen in California - 'The Land of the Fruits & Nuts', unless it's Florida like the next item!!!! But at least we have reasonable CCW laws & Castle Docs.

I call CA the Granola State because it's full of fruits, nuts, and flakes. 

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[jaybet]

I'll start with probably the oddest and funniest thing I've read in a while:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_fe_st/odd_sausage_attack;_ylt=Ak7xHb3zpwZVT1X9WKecUhAuQE4F

How do they know it was a sausage?

[ismram]

I call CA the Granola State because it's full of fruits, nuts, and flakes. 

I love it!!! Do you mind if I use it?

[ellis4538]

One of my favorites was printed twice in "Shooting Times" magazine -regular and 25th Anniversary issue- underDumb Crook Award tells of a guy who walked into a store and picked up a can of beans.  He waited until there wasn't anyone in the store and he took his "purchase" to the counter and laid it down.  Exposing himself, he damanded money.  The check-out girl was not fazed for she picked up the can and slamed it where it would do the most good.  The commentator speculated that "Next time he would probably bring a loaf of bread to check-out"!

Richard

PS:  I couldn't make something like this up, honest. 

[Big Frank]

I love it!!! Do you mind if I use it?

Be my guest. I probably got it from someone else anyway.

I wonder if they picked the sausage out of a police line-up? "Yeah, that's the one. Number 3."

[jbbooks]

Calling California the "Granola state" was old the first time I heard it in the '60's!