Brianna Priddy, a waitress at an Applebee's in Lakewood, Colorado, lost her wallet one night. She began the laborious process of replacing its contents and ensuring that her identity wasn't stolen. Alas, someone used it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/08/Waitress-Asks-for-ID-Gets-Handed-Own-Stolen-Drivers-License/A shoe shop in Exeter, England had a rack of ladies' shoes and children's snow boots splayed on the sidewalk outside the store. Some time Monday night or Tuesday morning, someone stole the entire rack! They won't be able...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/05/Thieves-Left-with-Right-Shoes-But-Not-Left/A boy in Spain was dreading a planned parent-teacher conference. He had not done well in school, so he anticipated a bad outcome to the meeting. Fortunately, he came up with a brilliant solution:Early on Monday afternoon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/25/11-Year-Old-Boy-Fakes-Kidnapping-to-Avoid-Parent-Teacher-Conference/Your getaway vehicle must be reliable. That's Crime 101. Unfortunately for these robbers in Colombia, they made a simply asinine choice: The group had managed to steal rum, oil, rice, cans of tuna and sardines from a sm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/24/Robbers-Plot-Foiled-When-Getaway-Donkey-Became-Uncooperative/Two men attempted to break into a jewelry store in Beaudesert, Australia, on New Year's Eve by breaking through the back wall of the building. However, when they went through the wall, they found themselves in a KFC outl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/04/Three-Tries-No-Jewels/A drunk driver in Red Hook, New York noticed that police had pulled over a friend of hers for drunk driving. She immediately swung into action, deciding that the best way to distract the police officer was to get him to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/26/Woman-Crashes-Car-into-House-in-Order-to-Distract-the-Police/What we've got here is failure to lose weight. That was something that Rafael Valadão should have done before boring a hole through the wall of a prison in Ceres, Brazil. That or dig a bigger hole. Rafael Valad&a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/05/Prisoner-Digs-Hole-in-Wall-Gets-Stuck/I am not surprised that a 19-year old girl would rob a bank. Nor am I really surprised that she would brag about it online. What amazes me is that she did so in a video that clearly took some effort to produce. And the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/04/Woman-Robs-Bank-Brags-about-It-on-YouTube-in-Remarkably-Well-Edited-Video/In 2008, a man in Salinas, California stole a truck. He made a bad decision and ended up with even worse luck:Thirty-three-year-old Edward Bishop told police he stole the pickup Saturday, then, while sitting outside a co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/18/Car-Thief-Carjacked/At 1:08 AM last Sunday, a man in Urbana, Ohio was cited for drunk driving. Then, precisely one hour later at 1:08 AM, he was cited for the same offense:Exactly one hour later, while on patrol in the municipal parking lot...
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