Crime

Convince Her You’re a Bad Boy with the Bank Job Pen

Yeah, you’re bad. You stole from a bank (even if it was just a pen). Or did you? At last, the $4 The Bank Job Pen fulfills that little part of your brain that’s always wanted to walk into a bank, cut the pens away with the assistance of jaws of life and a team…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 30

Brooklyn Couple Snags Nikon Traffic Cameras With Cherry Picker

Some people see those automated traffic light cameras and hate them for privacy reasons. Others, like this couple from Brooklyn we’re about to tell you about, take a look and see nothing but dollar signs. The thieving pair, Anthony Cintorrino and Tara Laburt, were the beneficiary of what those in the biz call an “inside…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 26

Foxconn’s CEO Supposedly Under Tax Evasion Investigation By IRS?

Foxconn, otherwise known as the company involved in the iPhone suicide, supposedly just had their CEO fingered by the IRS for tax evasion. Up to $1.49 billion worth. But it’s not so simple. The accusation that the CEO was under tax evasion investigations came from a former reporter for a Chinese magazine. The accusation was…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 23

Gasoline-Huffing Man Bursts Into Flame After Being Tased

An Australian man burst into flames after a policeman hit him on the bridge of the nose with his Taser. Sound ridiculous? Not so much if you know the man was arrested on suspicion of huffing gasoline. The man pretty immediately went up in flames, and the officer, recognizing that a man becomes significantly less…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jul 21

Nevada Police Tase, Arrest Naked ‘Terminator’

A man found naked wandering along the Nevada border has been tased and arrested despite his claiming to be a Terminator sent from the future. We’re a little upset that police would harm anybody this hilarious. The 19-year-old, a Nevada native named Sean Stanley (we publish his name in hopes of honoring, not embarrassing, this…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jul 16

TSA Uses Decoy Luggage To Bust Airline Laptop Thieves

This is why you don’t check valuables people. A TSA officer and baggage handler working at JFK airport were recently busted stealing a MacBook Air and a T-Mobile Sidekick out of decoy luggage. Both suspects were filmed by authorities rummaging through luggage bound for Miami on July 7th. They also switched luggage tags in a…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 15

Music, Mustaches and Marijuana Collide In Idiotic LP Smuggling Attempt From 1979

Thanks to some moronic Jamaican and Canadian drug smugglers, the 1979 mustache patrol cracked down hard on LPs that had the rare distinction of being certified "pot." Gizmodo ’79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the digital, and most of our favorite toys…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 13

Ferrari-Crashing Gizmondo Head Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

Stefan Eriksson, head of Gizmondo (the failed handheld gaming company who couldn’t even plagiarize our name correctly), was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for robbery, attempted blackmail and making illegal threats (which threats are legal?). Eriksson, whose story reaches Mark Sanford levels of ridiculous, is famous for crashing a rare Ferrari, escaping at least…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jul 11

This Laptop Thief Has Balls Of Steel

According to a police report, 19-year old Jesse Phoutthaphaphone…pppppthft was sitting by a cracked window in his home, typing on MySpace when a thief suddenly popped in the window and stole the laptop right out of his hands. “I was typing and all of the sudden just woosh! I was like oh, what the hell?”…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 10

Beware, Criminals: Japanese Police Now Equipped With Chintzy, Inaccurate Paintball Guns

Paintball guns for police sort of make sense, if you live in a country of incredibly timid criminals. But why do the guns have to look like they were bought at the dollar store? The plasticky firearms feature a laser sight but it doesn’t seem much help, since those demonstrating the “color ball launchers” can’t…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jul 10

Your SSN Is Up For Grabs For Thieves With Time On Their Hands

Convinced that your Social Security Number is secret enough to protect you from identity theft? Think again; researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have proven that they can calculate your SSN from your birth date with worrying ease. Carnegie Mellon’s Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross have correctly calculated the complete SSN for 8.5 percent…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 9

Spanish Police Foil Remote-Controlled Zeppelin Jailbreak

In a plot that’s crazy (and evil genius) enough to be from James Bond, three people have been arrested after police discovered their plan to free a drug trafficker from an island prison using a 13-foot airship carrying night goggles, climbing gear and camouflage paint. It’s believed that the inmate (of the Salto del Negro…

Tech News Danny Allen Jul 5

Blind Phone ‘Swatter’ Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking

A 19-year-old who was part of a swatting group—hacking the phone system to get 911 to respond with a SWAT team to potentially dangerous situations in order to harass people—just got sentenced to 11 years in prison. Their method of hacking used spoofing to pretend the call originated from the victim’s house. The team could…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 30

Phil Spector Requests iPod to Pass the Time While in Jail

Famed Beatles producer and founding member of the Horrible Mugshot Hall of Fame Phil Spector is beginning to serve his 19-year prison sentence for murder, and made a specific request to help him pass the time: An iPod. Prisoners at Spector’s new forced California residence are permitted certain objects, often musical instruments or personal mementos.…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 24

Muggers Caught When Their Crime Was Captured by Google Street View

Last September, a 14-year-old Dutch boy was assaulted and robbed after being shoved off his bike. But with no evidence and no real idea who his assailants were, police were powerless—until the crime showed up on Street View. The photo shows the boy being tailed closely by two men who matched the boy’s original description,…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 20

Texas Cops Break Out the Taser on a 72-Year-Old Woman for Being Old and Curmudgeonly

Despite the fact that tasing a full-grown man borders on excessive, a Texas cop found it necessary to tase a 72-year-old woman because she was yelling at him. And the slightly horrific, slightly hilarious farce was all caught on camera. The Travis County cop says that he had to pull out the Taser last week…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 16

Shoplifter Caught Blu-Handed With 33 Discs Down Pants

Oklahoma City police caught this woman shoplifting at a local Target with 33 Blu-ray discs shoved down her pants. I just want to know, where was she hiding the player? And dear god, lady, have you not heard of Bittorrent? The cherry on top is that she was also charged with assault and battery. Pretty…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 15

Fake Band Uses Stolen Credit Cards to Buy Own Music and Collect Royalties

In what probably seemed like a two-birds-with-one-stone situation (before the arrest, we mean), a 9-member British gang used stolen credit cards to purchase their own music on iTunes and Amazon, then collected the royalties—an estimated $300,000 total. The gang, made up of six men and three women, included one DJ who created the music. They…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 11

Crime Has Hilarious Consequences When You Steal An ATM With a Stolen Backhoe

I believe Wired’s Joe Brown summed this story best on Twitter: “Use stolen backhoe to steal ATM, ditch backhoe, ATM falls off truck, too heavy to pick up. Wish we had a backhoe.” To elaborate, two thieves decided to rip an ATM from its concrete foundation in downtown Phenix City Alabama using a backhoe (also…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 9

Murderer Caught Because of His ‘No Cellphone Left Behind’ Policy

During the investigation of a burglary at a home in Pinhole California, officers heard a cellphone ring. On the other end a man asks “Hey, did you find my phone?” Realizing that this might be a cellphone accidentally left at the scene by the burglar, Officer Uri Nieves played along and offered to return the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 4

Convince Her You’re a Bad Boy with the Bank Job Pen

Brooklyn Couple Snags Nikon Traffic Cameras With Cherry Picker

Foxconn’s CEO Supposedly Under Tax Evasion Investigation By IRS?

Gasoline-Huffing Man Bursts Into Flame After Being Tased

Nevada Police Tase, Arrest Naked ‘Terminator’

TSA Uses Decoy Luggage To Bust Airline Laptop Thieves

Music, Mustaches and Marijuana Collide In Idiotic LP Smuggling Attempt From 1979

Ferrari-Crashing Gizmondo Head Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

This Laptop Thief Has Balls Of Steel

Beware, Criminals: Japanese Police Now Equipped With Chintzy, Inaccurate Paintball Guns

Your SSN Is Up For Grabs For Thieves With Time On Their Hands

Spanish Police Foil Remote-Controlled Zeppelin Jailbreak

Blind Phone ‘Swatter’ Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking

Phil Spector Requests iPod to Pass the Time While in Jail

Muggers Caught When Their Crime Was Captured by Google Street View

Texas Cops Break Out the Taser on a 72-Year-Old Woman for Being Old and Curmudgeonly

Shoplifter Caught Blu-Handed With 33 Discs Down Pants

Fake Band Uses Stolen Credit Cards to Buy Own Music and Collect Royalties

Crime Has Hilarious Consequences When You Steal An ATM With a Stolen Backhoe

Murderer Caught Because of His ‘No Cellphone Left Behind’ Policy

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