This caper could be suitable for TV episodes of both “Hoarders” and “Cops.”
Evansville, Ind., police raiding the home of a suspected burglar found the place packed to the ceilings with stolen loot.
The booty was hauled away and laid out on a warehouse floor, where home-break-in victims were invited to come in and identify their stuff.
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A real-life Goldfinger may be on the loose.
Officials at a Missouri pharmaceutical manufacturing company discovered that $700,000 in gold dust had vanished from their warehouse.
The gold dust is very fine and would be difficult to sell on the black market, experts say.
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Cops outside Dallas got a 911 call of a house burglary in progress — from the burglar.
The thug-turned-wimp called for help when the intrepid homeowner jumped out and pointed a gun at him.
Officers rescued and arrested the suspect.
Only in Texas, kids, only in Texas.
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This may be the first time anyone was actually held responsible for trying to get a dummy elected to public office.
A woman in Aberdeen, Scotland, was arrested on charges that she illegally entered into a town-council election a mannequin under the name “Helena Torry.”
The woman, who on a nominating petition wrote the dummy a phony biography, is fighting the charges.
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Even a GPS wouldn’t have helped him.
In one of the worst cases of getting lost since Wrong-way Corrigan, a driver in Sweden wound up making a wrong turn onto train tracks.
He then drove the car carrying his family a mile to the next station.
Rail passengers’ jaws dropped as they saw the car rumbling along the tracks into the station.
Surprisingly, the man was not drunk.