A woman reported her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was
a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the
phone and told the guy that answered that he had read the ad in
the newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet,
and the thief was arrested.
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A true story out of San Francisco:
A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into
the branch and wrote "this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in
this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note to
the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the
note and might call the police before he reached the teller window.
So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells
Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note
to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his
spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor,
told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was
written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either
have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of
America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said "OK" and
left.
The Wells Fargo teller then called the police who arrested the
man a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank
of America.
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A motorist was caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed
using radar and photographed his car.
He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car.
Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40.
Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained
another picture ... of handcuffs.
The motorist promptly sent the money for the fine.
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Drug Possession Defendant Christopher Jansen, on trial in March in
Pontiac,
Michigan, said he had been searched without a warrant.
The prosecutor said the officer didn't need a warrant because
a "bulge" in Christopher's jacket could have been a gun.
Nonsense, said
Christopher, who happened to be wearing the same jacket that day in
court.
He handed it over so the judge could see it.
The judge discovered a packet of cocaine in the pocket and laughed so
hard
he required a five minute recess to compose himself.
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Colorado Springs:
A Guy walked into a little corner store with a shot gun and
demanded all the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put
the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he
wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to
put it in the bag as well, but he refused and said "Because I
don't believe you are over 21." The robber said he was, but the
clerk still refused to give it to him because he didn't believe
him. At this point the robber took his drivers license out of
his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over,
and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the scotch in the
bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier
promptly
called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got
off
the license.
They arrested the robber two hours later.
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Another from Detroit:
A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving
revolvers.
The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner
moved, the
startled
first bandit shot him.
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Cigars and Insurance
A Charlotte, NC, man purchased a case of very rare, very expensive cigars
and
insured them against fire among other things. Within a month, having
smoked
his entire stockpile of cigars and without having made even his first
premium
payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance
company.
In his claim, the man stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small
fires."
The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the
man
had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.
The man sued.... and won.
In delivering the ruling the judge agreeing that the claim was
frivolous, stated nevertheless that the man held a policy from
the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and
also guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what
it
considered to be "unacceptable fire," and was obligated to pay the
claim.
Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process the insurance
company
accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost
in
"the fires."
After the man cashed the check, however, the insurance company had him
arrested on 24 counts of arson.
With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being
used
against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured
property
and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.