A gang of Swedish criminals was seconds away from completing a digital bank heist when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam, investigators said Wednesday.The would be bank robbers had placed “advanced technical equipment” under the employee’s desk that allowed them to take control of his computer remotely, prosecutor Thomas Balter [...]
I’ve read many stories of people who have lived from gunshot woulds. And even a few cases a few cases where bullets had been left in the body. But this bellow case is unusual.
The death of Daniel Restrepo on Nov. 30 in Royal Palm Beach was a murder that began 12 years ago [...]
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I’ve heard of Spider bites causing festering and sores, of even limbs having to be amputated at times. But below is the first time I’ve heard of it being used as a defense.
An Australian man who kidnapped and raped a woman blamed his actions on a spider, local media reported on Thursday.
Philip Spiers pleaded guilty [...]
Never mess with short women…
Fair warning, criminals: Do not mess with Hafize Sahin.
Not letting her slight frame deter her, Sahin wielded an ax against a masked man who tried to rob her at gunpoint on Saturday, swinging with gusto at the would-be robber before he fled empty-handed.
“I said, “Get out, get out!” recalled Sahin, who [...]
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Or at least his lack of knowledge about it…
“NY Times blog piece about Interpol’s ‘untwirling’ of a photoshop-twirled photo, in the pursuit of a pedophile. Didn’t know you could untwirl! Apparently the criminals didn’t either, and Interpol’s not telling how.”
About 200 photos of the suspect with 12 different young boys were located on the Internet [...]
A thief in Germany was charred beyond recognition by a 10,000 volt electric shock when he tried to steal a live copper cable, authorities said Monday.Police in the western city of Duisburg found the 32-year-old man’s blackened remains by a set of cable cutters and pile of non-live cables he had already stolen.
Only because one [...]
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Man whose photo ended up online tells police he bought the computer from a friend.
A man who attained instant infamy by unwittingly using a stolen computer to upload a shirtless self-portrait to the Internet has turned the machine over to police in Victoria.
The tattooed man, whose photo has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times [...]
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Now this isn’t a Google-Bomb for George W. Bush. What this is, is a picture of a person who stole a laptop, took a picture of himself, and then accidentally uploaded it to the former owners Flickr Account. And what’s funnier is that the guy must not of realized it, [...]
iRobot Alliance? An earlier reported alliance with Taser and iRobot has come up with Number 5… I mean a robot that can be used to deal with even the biggest and meanest of people. A cool little video is available that shows off their little bastard child merging of the two. Its [...]
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Note: I’m a Second Generation American, and of Irish decent. One thing to know is that besides fighting for freedom the different groups that formed in Ireland also did so as sort of a policing force. To enforce their rules on the areas. One thing that they have also been known for [...]
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