Book Four : Chapter Two
Criminal
Oddities
| Two convicted killers and four other prisoners broke out of a maximum-security Pittsburgh prison after using a blueprint, a jackhammer, a power drill, lighted hard hats, and a two-way radio to dig a 70-foot long tunnel. All the tools were standard prison issue. |
An odd panic is gripping Ghana. Victims say that voodoo experts
touch their penises and make them either shrink or disappear. They are
then asked for money in return for a cure.
Angry mobs have so far beaten to death 12 people they claim used withcraft to snatch and shrink penises. Government sources say that the army may be called in to restore order. |
| The Greek parents of a medical students were convicted of 'disrespect of the dead' when they stole bones from a cemetary and mailed them to their son in Bulgaria. They were trying to help his study of human anatomy. |
An Eqyptian woman was charged with desecrating a grave when police
found her leaving a cemetary carrying a skull.
The 48-year-old woman claimed that her husband - who had died four years earlier - came to her in a dream and told her to take him back to their home. The woman dug up his grave, but was only able to locate the skull. |
| A man in New Jersey has filed for divorce, claiming his wife had several cybersex encounters with a man known only as 'Weasel'. |
Police in Melbourne, Australia, know exactly what to look for
as they hunt down some very astute burglars - who stole drugs
capable of causing a five-day erection.
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| As the theives locked the bank staff in a small room, they shook the employee's hands and apologised for their criminal act, saying, "This money will really help." They left with tens of millions of lira. |
An Australian court found a woman guilty of raping another woman.
The two women were both inmates in an Adelaide prison. The convicted woman and three other inmates mistakenly believed that the victim was hiding drugs, and inserted her fingers into the woman's vagina searching for the drugs. The trial judge agreed that there was no sexual gratification sought, which is normally a prerequisite for a rape charge, but that it was a "hostile and uncaring penetration", and that was sufficient grounds. |
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Disney amusement parks have taken to installing miniature cameras
in the costumes of their characters in an effort to nab those who
visit the parks purely to molest the characters. Common complaints
include pulling Pluto's tail, punching Mickey's nose, and squeezing
Snow White's breasts.
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| The death of his nine-moonth old son so enraged Ameer Basha of New Delhi that he decapitated his wife and his mother-in-law. Giving himself in to police, Basha walked into a local police station with the two heads slung over his shoulder. |
A Utah prisoner attempted a novel escape in 1996
when he tried to mail himself home for Christmas.
Authorities discovered the prisoner inside a large, addressed cardboard box, amongst other parcels waiting for a parcel service pickup. The man was serving a life sentence for child molestation. |
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Egyptian students with poor grades have found a
unique way to enter university. A government
program guarantees a better chance to blind and
handicapped students by lowering entry standards
for those who qualify. One university discovered that of 90 students who claimed to be blind, 25 were frauds. |
Peruvian police officers who succumbed to temptation
and accepted a bribe, were actually conned.
The officers had caught two thieves after a car chase through an Andean village, and the thieves bargained for their freedom with a thick wad of cash. The officers took the bribe and the theives were allowed to 'escape'. It was only when the police were counting their windfall the next morning that they realised they had been bribed with counterfeit money. |
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