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more about #crime more comments → Jacubious: Perhaps trying to regularly run stories that highlight altruism related to tech could snap you out of your cynicism. Keep running stories on iPod deat... more » Stndsh0: We have a very late entry for this year's Darwin Awards. more » En0s1: Rosa, today I helped my neighbor dig her car out of 2 feet of snow. I didn't know her til today but we lived on the same block for almost 4 years In ... more » bagellord: "That's the sort of thing that make me lose just a bit more of my faith in our crazy society." I've lost all faith in society. Acts of kindness are s... more » OCEntertainment: Rosa: One time, back when I was working as a cart-pusher at Wal-Mart in the middle of a hot Georgia summer, this dude came by and gave me a bottle of ... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Someone has something that somebody else wants and that person chooses to take it, by force. Sadly, I don't think this will ever change. more » Ninety-9: Ahh, the natural order. more » The5thElephant: At least he isn't using this technique for stealing organs. First he would back his truck up into your abdomen. Then he would jump in, tripping all ... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Hello sir, I have developed very profound intentions to sack your store, but I'm a very very clumsy person. What do you think of skipping the whole l... more » EpiphyteCorp.: iSuckatlife more » Nathan Obbards: /puts on troll hat It's obvious he's a dumb thief before he even tries to take anything. I mean, who would steal iMacs, from a non-Apple retail loca... more » Kaiser-Machead: Too bad he didn't fall on something and impale himself. I would've had a morbid chuckle over that. more » Lexicality: While I can see how it would eliminate the need for guards to have to manually go through someone's poop to remove the evidence, surely in order to fi... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: This thing reminds me of an electric chair, which somehow seems appropriate given where it's being used. more » Alfisted: automatic stool pigeon more » -
#crime
Fighting Over an iPod Left Two Men Dead
A 21 year old man was shot over a stolen iPod. His killer was shot by police officers responding to the crime. Both men died. All over one freakin' iPod. More » -
#crime
Video of The World's Most Pathetic Computer Thief
This guy stole $6,000 in Apple products from a small computer dealer. In the process he drove his car through the store, tripped over cords, nearly fell over tables, and had his whole pathetic burglary caught on surveillance video. More » -
#toilets
Drugloo Toilet Prevents Prison Guards From Whipping Out The Latex Gloves
Man, what can't toilets do these days? The latest innovation, Drugloo, washes feces, separates drug packages and seals the evidence in a container—all without prison guards having to get their hands dirty. More » -
#cellphones
Bloodhound Detector Sniffs Out Contraband Cellphones: Guess What They Smell Like?
That's right...ass. Why? Because that's where inmates cram 'em. So it looks like the Bloodhound here will be pointing directly the backside of a lot of prison jumpsuits. More » -
#crime
DECAF App Thwarts Microsoft's Super-Illegal COFEE Forensic Software
Microsoft's COFEE software is designed to help law enforcement grab sensitive, encrypted data from a suspect's hard drive. Recently that software was leaked online. Now, two "developers" have come up with DECAF—an app designed to counteract COFEE. More » -
#wtf
Chinese Couple Sells Baby for Cellphone Money
Faced with the prospect of raising a child they couldn't support, a pair of young, unmarried lovers in China decided to sell their little baby boy for just enough money to buy a cellphone. More » -
#crime
Chinese Dude Gets Remote Crammed Up His Butt as a Drunken Prank
Nineteen year old Huang Chen stumbled drunk into a hospital in Changsha, China recently complaining of severe pain in his backside. Yeah, you know where this is going...but there is a twist. More » -
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#wifi
Wi-Fi Thief Causes Bomb Scare With a Tape-Covered Router
A resourceful Pennsylvania man waterproofed his router using a box and tape before sticking it onto his windowsill to use a nearby library's wi-fi. Too bad that he taped the gadget up so well that it looked like a bomb. More » -
#crime
Chinese Woman Fools Scanners By Surgically Switching Her Fingerprints
Unfortunately for Lin Ring, her $14,600 surgical fingerprint switching procedure was able to fool the scanners, but could not prevent immigration officials from noticing the scars on her fingers. More » -
#piracy
Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
A woman is potentially facing three years in jail for recording three minutes of New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. Three years. In Jail. Over Twilight. More » -
#crime
Guy Demands to Be Arrested for Ripping His Own DVDs
In Denmark it's legal to make backup copies of your DVDs, but illegal to break the DRM that prevents copying them. This annoyed a guy so much that he decided to turn himself in for ripping his own DVD collection More » -
#crime
Stolen Belgian iPhones Traced to Russian Black Market
Remember that $3M iPhone 3GS heist in Belgium last month? Burglars nabbed 3,000-4,000 handsets. Now, according to blogs uncovered by Cult of Mac, they're being offloaded in Russia (where the 3GS isn't available) in batches of 100—cash only. More » -
#crime
"Hammer, Hammer" Says Frankenstein As He Smashes TVs In a Target
A 39-year old Chicago man walked into a Minnesota Target store on Saturday morning and began smashing tvs while muttering "hammer" repeatedly in a monotone voice. Witnesses also describe him as walking like Frankenstein and having blood on his face. More » -
#crime
NY Gangs Use Twitter To Plan Crimes While The NY Police Use Twitter To Arrest Gangs
Could those two things be related somehow? Indeed, the turf war between gangs in New York has spilled over into twitter, where they often use the service to trash talk rival gangs and plan attacks. More » -
#crime
First Made-For-Google Manhunt in Progress (Updating Live)
A Google Wave started by the Seattle Times is being used to track information about the search for a man suspected of killing four police officers. It's the first Google-supported manhunt and finally a decent use for Wave. Update 6. More » -
#crime
How Your Brain Will Betray You in a Court of Law
I know it's science, which is ostensibly more objective than human intuition, but there's something unnerving about an MRI brain scan being admitted as evidence in a murder trial in Chicago, the first in the US. More » -
#spam
Godfather of Spam Sentenced to Four Years in Jail
A Detroit judge sentenced Alan Ralsky, a spam mastermind who headed an elaborate international organization, to 51 months in prison. Ralsky was convicted of wire fraud, mail fraud and violation of the CAN-SPAM act for his schemes. More » -
#crime
Facebook Linked to Middle School Redhead Beating
The beating of a 12-year-old redheaded boy this past Friday is linked to two of the favorite punching bags of those unwilling to directly blame the jerk kids responsible: Facebook and South Park. More » -
#police
Teenager Calls 911 After Parents Confiscate His Xbox
Seriously, 911 operators sure deal with some crap. A 15 year old boy from Buffalo Grove (outside Chicago) asked police on Sunday if his parents had the right to take away his Xbox. They stopped by to set things straight. More »
