Georgia: Police investigating
a purse snatching in Brunswick, Georgia, picked up a man who fit the
purse-snatcher's description and drove him back to the scene of the crime.
He was told to exit the police car and face the victim for an ID. The suspect
dutifully eyed the victim and blurted out: "Yeah, that's the woman I
robbed."
(Source: USA Today)
Louisiana: A robber with a thick
Cajun accent attempted to hold up a restaurant in Thibodaux but couldn't
get restaurant patrons to understand his demand for money. Frustrated, he
whipped out his gun only to find that it wouldn't fire. The man then grabbed
the cash register and ran, but got only three feet before falling over because
the register was still plugged into the wall. Unplugging it, the man tried
again - but a hungry diner who'd lost patience with the incompetent
thief decked him and called police instead.
(Source: New York Times)
Texas: Austin police, responding
to a report about a store robbery, apprehended the thief as he was fleelng
naked from the scene. The thief said he'd stripped after the robbery because
he was worried that his clothes would make him identifiable.
(Source: Washington Post)
South Carolina: Convicted murderer
Michael Anderson Godwin spent several years on death row awaiting the electric
chair before having his sentence commuted to life in prison. Whilst sitting
on a metal toilet in his cell and attempting to fix his small TV set, he
bit into a wire and was electrocuted.
(Source: News Of The Weird)
Sussex: Poacher Marino Malerba,
who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock, was killed instantly
when it fell on him.
(Source: The Times)
North Carolina: A Charlotte,
North Carolina man purchased a case of very rare and expensive cigars and
insured them against fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile
of cigars - and having yet to make a single premium payment on the policy
- the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, he stated
that he'd lost the cigars in "a series of small fires." The insurance company
refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars
in a normal fashion. But the man sued and won. In delivering his ruling,
the judge stated that since the man held a policy from the company in which
it had warranted that the cigars were insurable, and that the insurance company
had also guaranteed that it would insure the cigars against fire without
defining what it considered to be "unacceptable fire," it was obligated to
compensate the insured for his loss. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly
appeal process the insurance company accepted the judge's ruling and paid
the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires". But after the
man cashed his cheque the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts
of arson, using the man's insurance claim and testimony from the previous
case as evidence against him. The man was subsequently convicted of intentionally
burning the rare cigars and sentenced to a year in jail.
(Source: The Straits Times)
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