Bizarre Crimes Roundup
May 19, 2008
During the past week there have been a number of crimes committed that can best be described as, well, bizarre, from locations in the U.S., Malaysia, and Australia. Here is a digest of sorts of a few of them in which the criminals, and in one of the cases a victim, seemed to straddle the line that separates the stupid from the moronic.
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Out of Cleveland, Tennessee, located near Chattanooga, a man attempting to enter the courtrooms area of the Bradley County Justice Center on Monday, May 12, 2008, was stopped at the security area and asked to empty the contents of his pockets into a plastic container before being allowed to continue into one of the courtrooms. According to Sheriff Tim Gobble, the man allegedly included a small amount of marijuana and rolling papers among the items he placed into the plastic container for inspection. When security personnel questioned him about it, he fled the building but was captured by police only minutes later. He faces charges of carrying contraband into a penal institution and evading capture. Certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed....
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Another dullard, this time from down under, was pulled over while driving an unregistered and uninsured car on Friday, May 9, 2008, in Alice Springs, Australia, located in the central part of the country. Constable Wayne Burnett said that he was "shocked and appalled" when he observed a case of beer seat-buckled between two adults sitting in the car's back seat while a child sat unrestrained on the floor beneath the 30 cans of beer.
"The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained," Burnett said. "I haven't ever seen something like this before. This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child."
The driver was...
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