The follwing is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.A haphazard look at inventions to trap bad guysby Alice Shirrell Kaswell and Stephen Drew, Improbable Research staffIn the lusty tussle between Good and E...

The blog Small Town Noir tells the stories of peop...  ...e in the local newspaper archives -not just their crime , but their entire lives as well as they can be re...  ...ainst her will for the purpose of prostitution, a crime

Wednesday morning, the Capon Valley Bank in Baker, West Virginia, was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money by a clown accompanied by a monkey. The man wearing the clown mask was also wearing a large nightgown.The oth...

Christopher Reeves was arrested in Utah for DUI and drug charges. He was wearing a Superman shirt at the time. The 33-year-old Reeves (seen in the above mug shot) was allegedly speeding and driving erratically around 3...

When the famous bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he supposedly replied, "That's where the money is." Sutton claimed he never actually said it. Pity. Someone should have. Anyway, here are the sto...

A guy walks into a liquor store with an alligator and... no wait, that's not how this story goes, but it still sounds like a joke. A man in Florida (where else) walked into a convenience store Monday night and offered to...

In 1874, kidnapping was a misdemeanor under Pennsy...  ...tigate suspects. Two suspects died during another crime and one was arrested, but the case was never trul...  ...wever, Pennsylvania made kidnapping into a felony crime . Fast forward 139 years, when a librarian in Phil...

Who would steal vegetables from nuns? Someone snuck into the the Dominican Farm and Ecology Centre in Wicklow, Ireland, and stole an entire field of Brussels sprouts right out of the ground. Sister Julie Newman believes...

Real-life robberies are often the subject of our "dumb criminal" posts, but every once in a while, thieves pull off a caper that is so brazen, clever, or just plain huge that you mentally compare it to a Hollywood film....

We posted the story of Batman bin Suparman's name...  ...man's name some time ago. Now it appears that the crime -fighting moniker has had little influence on his...