Ridiculous Crimes

Couldn't have made these up if you tried. . .

WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE THAT'S ...A FELONY:
Stephanie Martinez was at work, at a pizza parlor in Denton, Texas,
when a robber burst in. The gunman was impatient, and slapped a clerk
to hurry him up. The clerk hit the robber back, stunning the robber and
knocking his disguise off. "I dropped the money," Martinez remembers.
"I said, 'Don't hit him again! That's my dad!" The robber ran out and
jumped into a pickup truck where two accomplices were waiting. Police
say Benjamin Ramirez, 41, was driven away from the scene by Sonia
Palacios, 38, and Jose Miguel Martinez, 26 -- Stephanie's mother and
stepfather; Ramirez is her father. All three were arrested. Police
don't believe Stephanie Martinez was involved in the crime, or knew her
employer would be a target. (Denton Record-Chronicle) ...Ramirez told
police he chose the place because he heard Stephanie say many times
that it "had tons of dough."

POLITE POLICE: New rules for police in the United Kingdom include special
guidelines for handlers of police dogs. Officers should consider
whether the dogs might trigger allergies or panic attacks in criminal
suspects, which could lead to "costly compensation claims." Officers
are incensed by the rules. "The whole point of police dogs is to
frighten people rigid," complained one anonymous sergeant. "They should
have considered the mental trauma and possible allergic reaction caused
by 60lbs of foaming Alsatian clamping its teeth to their extremities
before embarking on their criminal escapade." Another anonymous officer
asked, "What's next? Sparing people custody because they have a fear of
enclosed spaces?" (London Telegraph) ...That would save quite a bit of
money too, actually.

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HOW DARE YOU STEAL MY STOLEN VEHICLE! Edward Bishop, 33, told police in
Salinas, Calif., that he had stolen a Chevy pickup truck. Hours later
he was sitting at a convenience store when a man jumped into the seat,
pointed a gun at his head, and told him to drive. Bishop jumped out of
the car -- and called police to report the carjacking. After a chase
ending in a crash, Jomo Sexton, 34, was caught and charged with
kidnaping, carjacking, reckless driving, driving under the influence,
unlicensed driving, hit and run, and violation of parole. Bishop was
charged with vehicle theft. "You couldn't make up something stranger
than this," a police commander said. (Salinas Californian) ...Truth is
stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.

SMACKDOWN: The morning crew at radio station CFOX in Vancouver, B.C.,
Canada, wanted to show just how easy it was to buy drugs on city
streets. "Captain Scotty" went to a specific street corner dressed in a
beaver costume carrying a sign saying he wanted to buy heroin. The deal
was completed "within minutes," live on the air. Two police officers in
the area were listening to the show on their car radio and headed for
the scene. The dealer was long gone, but "Scotty" was easy to spot --
he was apparently the only one on the corner in a beaver suit. "They
found him, intervened and took a small amount of heroin from him," a
police spokeswoman said. The stunt was meant to "highlight the
ridiculous nature" of how easy it is to find drugs, the station's
program director said. "Even a man in a beaver costume could do so." A
spokeswoman for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users wasn't
impressed with the effort. "It sounds like a stunt to me," she said.
(Toronto Globe and Mail) ...High, or just stupid? You be the judge.

(Thanks to http://www.thisistrue.com)