When you read about robberies, you generally hear how it turned bad, or how a kid was traumatized forever by it. By their nature, a situation in which a robber comes in ad waves a run at you, or threatens to shoot a child of your is bad. But in Washington D.C. they had a [...]
Thieves have stolen nearly $300 million from a bank in Baghdad, police and a bank official said Thursday, in what is probably one of the biggest thefts in Iraq since the 2003 war to topple Saddam Hussein.Police said the thieves were three guards who worked at the private Dar Es Salaam bank in Baghdad’s Karrada [...]
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A Belgian man appeared in court on Friday after a woman at his dinner party found the bodies of his wife and stepson in the freezer as she put away the leftovers, prosecutors said.The woman went to the police after discovering the 46-year-old woman and her 11-year-old son and officers arrested the man in the [...]
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I guess the copper thefts are becoming a major problem everywhere…
Not everybody in military-ruled Myanmar is cursing the blackouts.
Thieves in the former Burma’s main city, Yangon, are taking advantage of outages often lasting for more than 20 hours a day to steal the copper power cables, police said on Friday.
Sometimes, of course, they get unlucky.
“The [...]
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OK… so this weekend I read about how South Africa is one of China’s biggest sources for copper… but has no copper mines. Basically thieves steal copper lines and sell it to recyclers. Enough so that they have become a major source. Then last night my wife gets a call to let [...]
I’m pissed. I live in a very nice city… surrounded by a lot of people who for the most part are pretty nice. So we’ve thought nothing of the fact my wife walks a few blocks (around 12) from our house to her work and back. But today somebody got on my shit list.
As my [...]
Criminals in Texas beware: if you threaten someone in their car or office, the citizens of this state where guns are ubiquitous have the right to shoot you dead.
Governor Rick Perry’s office said on Tuesday that he had signed a new law that expands Texans’ existing right to use deadly force to defend themselves “without [...]
TOKYO — This story begins with a crime.
Under normal circumstances, there is no reason anyone would want to steal my bike. It’s a basic get-around-town model that cost $150. It was the biggest bicycle a Japanese department store carried and it’s still too small for me. The chain grinds on every rotation, although that may [...]
A Brazilian businessman traveling in Germany watched by live video as a burglar robbed his house on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.
Once police were alerted, they rushed to the house and arrested the robber as he was trying on his clothes.
The businessman, Joao Pedro Wettlauser, was in Cologne this weekend when [...]
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I recently wrote about Eric Copple having been found guilty (after admitting it) and getting life. But on that night he killed two women, there was a woman downstairs that escaped… and still lives with that night on her mind. Below is her story.
Woman who survived night of murders still seeking perspective, peace
Lauren [...]
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