A couple of San Francisco teenagers thought the perfect present for one of their girlfriends would be a pair of koala bears. The duo visited the San Francisco Zoo afterhours and snatched the creatures. Unfortunately, the girl
didn't find the snarling pets to be charming and the boys had to bring the koalas back to one of their homes. They put the koalas in a tub filled with carrots, oranges and leaves, but the malnourished marsupials started to die.
Acting on an anonymous tip, authorities busted the teens.
After stealing hedgehogs from a pet store in Loveland, Colorado, Raymond Martin, 18, and Wayne Ballew, 19, spent the next few months trying to unload six of the hedgehogs. However, disaster struck when Martin was pulled over for speeding and the police found a box containing the vermin. Martin gave in during questioning, admitting to the hedgehog heist and ratting out his friend. "The moral is: Don’t take stolen hedgehogs out for a late-night ride and speed," said police Lt. Al Sharon.
It's not uncommon to steal a few things from the office every so often. However, it is a problem if you're a coroner's assistant. Jurek Ladziak's line of work allowed him to obtain a collection that included a skull, body parts
and a number of ID cards of the dead. After Ladziak assembled his work, he decorated his warehouse-apartment to resemble a warehouse-morgue. Someone tipped off police to his dungeon of death, and Ludziak was hauled in on charges of possession of stolen property.
Dog owner Mrs. Hollis Sharpe was taking her poodle, Jonathan, for an evening walk in Los Angeles when she was jumped from behind. The mugger grabbed Sharpe's plastic bag and shoved her to the ground so hard that she broke her arm. He then took off with his prize: a big bag of dog poop. "I wish there had been a little more in the bag," said a charitable Sharpe.
Toilet troubles hit NYC residents in 1991 when a felon made off with 109 toilet bowl handles. The crafty thief even separated a handle from the toilet just down the hall from then-mayor David Dinkins' office in City Hall. Here's hoping the robber wasn't hoping to make much off the handles. "There’s a little brass in there," noted Lisa Ryan, then-spokesperson for the New York City Department of General Services. "Maybe he’s refurbishing and reselling them-I don’t know why anyone would want them."
Missouri man Michael Marcum, stole six 350-pound electrical transformers from a power company in January 1995. His motive? To construct a time machine so he could send himself a few days into the future, find out the winning lottery numbers and then come back to buy the matching tickets. Police discovered one of the transformers during a search of Marcum's home on an unrelated vandalism investigation. The cops noticed that Marcum had plugged one of the transformers into his fuse box. An antenna was attached to the top, with a visible electrical current arcing from one rabbit ear to
the other.
didn't find the snarling pets to be charming and the boys had to bring the koalas back to one of their homes. They put the koalas in a tub filled with carrots, oranges and leaves, but the malnourished marsupials started to die.
Acting on an anonymous tip, authorities busted the teens.
After stealing hedgehogs from a pet store in Loveland, Colorado, Raymond Martin, 18, and Wayne Ballew, 19, spent the next few months trying to unload six of the hedgehogs. However, disaster struck when Martin was pulled over for speeding and the police found a box containing the vermin. Martin gave in during questioning, admitting to the hedgehog heist and ratting out his friend. "The moral is: Don’t take stolen hedgehogs out for a late-night ride and speed," said police Lt. Al Sharon.
It's not uncommon to steal a few things from the office every so often. However, it is a problem if you're a coroner's assistant. Jurek Ladziak's line of work allowed him to obtain a collection that included a skull, body parts
and a number of ID cards of the dead. After Ladziak assembled his work, he decorated his warehouse-apartment to resemble a warehouse-morgue. Someone tipped off police to his dungeon of death, and Ludziak was hauled in on charges of possession of stolen property.
Dog owner Mrs. Hollis Sharpe was taking her poodle, Jonathan, for an evening walk in Los Angeles when she was jumped from behind. The mugger grabbed Sharpe's plastic bag and shoved her to the ground so hard that she broke her arm. He then took off with his prize: a big bag of dog poop. "I wish there had been a little more in the bag," said a charitable Sharpe.
Toilet troubles hit NYC residents in 1991 when a felon made off with 109 toilet bowl handles. The crafty thief even separated a handle from the toilet just down the hall from then-mayor David Dinkins' office in City Hall. Here's hoping the robber wasn't hoping to make much off the handles. "There’s a little brass in there," noted Lisa Ryan, then-spokesperson for the New York City Department of General Services. "Maybe he’s refurbishing and reselling them-I don’t know why anyone would want them."
Missouri man Michael Marcum, stole six 350-pound electrical transformers from a power company in January 1995. His motive? To construct a time machine so he could send himself a few days into the future, find out the winning lottery numbers and then come back to buy the matching tickets. Police discovered one of the transformers during a search of Marcum's home on an unrelated vandalism investigation. The cops noticed that Marcum had plugged one of the transformers into his fuse box. An antenna was attached to the top, with a visible electrical current arcing from one rabbit ear to
the other.