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The Most Perfect Tasing You'll See This Week [Video]





The would-be female thief in this surveillance video seems like a smooth operator—until she gets zapped with a taser and falls to the ground like a stiff board. We've seen our fair share of tasings,...
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How Does an 800-Year-Old Giant Tree Go Missing? [WTFriday]





Enterprising tree poachers have stolen a gold, er, woodmine of a target: an 800-year-old red cedar tree that's one of the largest in the Vancouver Island area. It's gone now and it was stolen under a two-p...
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Cops Found a Ridiculous Amount of Drugs Up Some Guy's Butt [Crime]





Eighty-four bags of crack. Two hundred-eighteen Oxycodone pills. Eleven grams of weed. If that sounds like enough drugs to fill a small warehouse, you're right. Assuming that warehouse was Alex Boulet's bu...
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Man Rams a Store with a Stolen Tractor to Steal Deodorant [WTFriday]





Out in Chicago, a wild man who was apparently in a desperate need of deodorant, stole a Bobcat tractor from a construction site and then drove it through the gates, window and wall of a store. He grabbed a...
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iPhone-Thieving Hookers Cause a Motel Shootout [Crime]





Partaking in a prostitute's services is risky enough as it is—even more so when her fingers are as nimble as her tongue. Two Stockton, CA men learned this lesson the hard way Thursday after a pair of...
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Man in Underwear Stabs His Computer with a Samurai Sword When Police Search for Child Porn [Wtf]





Florida doesn't get weirder than this: Kamil Mezalka, a 21-year-old man, stabbed his hard drive with a two-handed Samurai sword after the police stormed his house looking for evidence of child pornography....
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Leaked FBI Report Details How Best to Get Away With Bitcoin Crime [Bitcoin]





This week, an internal FBI report was leaked, detailing the Bureau's concern about the virtual currency Bitcoin and its potential to be exploited by criminals for money laundering and other scams. More&...
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Laptop Giveaways, Fat Suction, and Other Stories We Didn't Post [Video]





So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in...
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Three Delta Employees Charged Over $600,000 Drug Duffle [Crime]





If you're going to smuggle a half-million dollars worth for heroin and speed through Hartsfield-Jackson International, try not to forget it at baggage claim. More »



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This Man Had a Taser Dart Stuck In His Brain and Didn't Even Realize [Weapons]





Sometimes, academic journals have the best stories. Like last week's issue of Forensic Science International, which describes how a man had a a drunken confrontation with the police and ended up with a tas...
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Teens Are Planning Raging Parties at Vacant Multi Million Dollar Mansions with Google and Twitter [Party]





Supposedly inspired by that party movie Project X and probably more influenced by their own impressionable roller coaster hormones, teenagers are doing teenage things, only bigger, badder and from the soun...
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Delusional Anarchists' May Day Plot Foiled After Buying Fake Bombs From the FBI [Crime]





Five "self-professed anarchists" were arrested outside Cleveland last night after buying a pair of fake bombs from the FBI. According to the local ABC affiliate, the plan was to use improvised explosive de...
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Why Won't The LAPD Help Recover This Stolen Computer? [Crime]





Find my iPhone and all that built in tracking stuff is great. But it's only useful if the police are willing to help. If they're not? Well. Welcome to Los Angeles. More »



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The Case For GeoHot [Hackers]





George Hotz—better known as GeoHot—might be the most famous hardware hacker in the world. He unlocked the iPhone so people could use it with any carrier and hacked the PS3 so it would play boot...
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Guy In a Cow Suit Shoplifts 26 Gallons of Milk From a Busy Walmart [Wtf]





This has to be one of the weirdest shoplifting cases ever. More »



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Connecticut Bill Aims to Make Cops Pay for First Amendment Violations [Law]





Officers of the law in Connecticut may soon have a strong incentive to tolerate citizens filming them—financial liability. More »



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An Anti-Catcalling App Is a Silly Way to Waste $20,000 of Government Money [Sexism]





Nobody likes sexism or the obnoxious jerks who jeer women walking down the street. But there's a pretty good chance that New York's new $20,000 "research" investment in an app to report offending males mig...
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If You Tweet and Delete Your Crimes You Will Still Go To Jail [Twitter]





Everyone screws up and occasionally tweets something they shouldn't. Thanks to services like Topsy, deleting your 140 character flub has never been a foolproof way of erasing your misdeed, but we always th...
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The Most Unbelievably Terrible Police Wanted Composites [Crime]





If your only exposure to the art of compiling police composites comes from CSI or NCIS or ASDFJKL, you might think that modern law enforcement is all supercomputers and enhance machines. If only. More&n...
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Dude Skips ATM Line, Gets Stabbed, Calmly Completes Transaction [Wtf]






We've all been there. Those days when you've just had enough already. The slightest provocation and you're ready to blow. Maybe you elbow someone a little to hard when they crowd your subway-space. Maybe ...
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How Many Smuggled iPhones Can You Hide In a Beer Bottle? [Video]





iPhones are a hot commodity for smugglers. We already know that an old lady can stuff 44 iPhones in her stockings. But thanks to the most recent bust in China, we now know how many will fit in a beer bott...
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How to Rule a Weed Empire Through Violence [Crime]





Empires are not ruled by kind-hearted men. Cornbread Mafia by James Higdon explores what it takes to maintain order within the "largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history." More &raqu...
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Idiot Steals Gas from Cop Car, Posts Picture on Facebook, Goes Directly to Jail [Bad Ideas]





This is Michael Baker. Michael is 20 years old, lives in Kentucky, and likes The Bucket List on Facebook. I know these things because Michael has not activated his Facebook privacy settings, which is somet...
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A TSA Agent Has Been Stealing iPads from Passenger Luggage [Tsa]





Here's another awful thing to add to your oft updated list of why the TSA is terrible: a TSA baggage inspector has been charged with theft by a public servant for stealing eight iPads (on different occasio...
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Scientist Uses Physics to Escape a $400 Traffic Ticket [Genius]





When encountering a tricky problem, it always pays to play to your strengths. Like a scientist from USCD who was issued with a traffic ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. His response? A ...
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Adopting a Money-Sniffing Border Patrol Beagle Seems Like a Prudent Investment, Right? [Canada]





Seriously, think about it. These are nineteen highly-trained sniffer dogs capable of detecting money, drugs, and guns that Canada just fired and put up for adoption. And one of them, along with that golden...
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Idiot Car Thief Butt Dialed 911 Over and Over Until He Was Caught [Wtf]





Butt dials are annoying, especially when your phone randomly dials 911 for no good reason all the time. But if you find yourself prone to that predicament? Think about leaving your phone at home when you g...
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Appeals Court Rules Computer Code Is Not "Property" [Crime]





Sergey Aleynikov, an ex-Goldman-Sachs programmer, spent a year in prison for downloading source code of the firm's high-speed trading software before his sentence was overturned in February. Today, the cou...
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Man Steals Guns and a Taser and Goes on the Craziest Crime Spree You Can Imagine [Crime]





This is William C. Todd. He may have just shattered the record for the craziest and fastest crime spree in American history: ten felonies in just nine hours. The list of crimes is so insane and absurd that...
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Carriers Unite to Track Stolen Phones Nationwide [Crime]





Cell phone theft is among the fastest-growing crime segments in the US and police commissioners from around the nation are fed up. So the FCC and the Big Four carriers are developing a nation lost/stolen p...
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What Facebook Sends the Cops When Your Account Is Subpoenaed [Facebook]





As part of its investigation into the Philip Markoff case—aka the Craigslist Killer—the Boston Police Department subpoenaed his Facebook account. And now that a large collection of files relate...
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Three Drunk Canadians Get Naked and Ride a Shopping Cart Though a Car Wash [Wtf]





Whaddya mean it's against the law to get drunk and joyride a shopping cart naked through a car wash, eh? More »



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This Football-Sized Robot Sub Handles Law Enforcement's Underwater Beat [Video]





From inspecting cargo ships in NYC Harbor to searching for missing persons in South Texas, law enforcement is increasingly supplementing its human divers with these football-sized remote submersibles. M...
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Perv Gets Prison After Victim's Nintendo DS Captures the Act [Crime]





John Fisher probably figured he'd gotten away with inappropriately touching that 10-year old girl. That is, until police showed him the photos his victim took of him mid-molestation on her Nintendo DS. ...
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The XRY Cracking Tool Is Unimpressed with Your iPhone's Defenses [Video]





If you think your iPhone passcode will keep you as safe as a Pimp with an Android, you are sadly mistaken. The XRY cracking program can crush Apple's paltry security measures faster than you can say, "Bitc...
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AWOL Soldier Tries To Steal the Identity of One of the World's Richest Men [Crime]





The feds have locked up an AWOL soldier because he tried to use Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's identity to pay his bills. Oops. More »



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How to Spot a Sucker from 50 Paces [Crime]





Take a moment to look around and try to spot the rube in the room. If you find him, congrats, that's free lunch. If not, it looks like you're buying. The Mark Inside by Amy Reading takes us inside the worl...
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Cops May Have to Return Dotcom's Fortune Due to "Procedural Error" [Piracy]





When New Zealand authorities raided the estate of MegaUpload boss Kim Dotcom, they confiscated nearly $200 million worth of property. But as it turns out, the court order authorizing this seizure was inval...
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When Planting a Perv Cam, Try Not to Take Your Own Picture with It [Crime]





Thomas McMartin is sure does love the ladies—especially when they are in various states of undress. He's such a fan that he allegedly installed a motion-activated spy camera in a women's locker room....
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The Real-Life Libyan Ocean’s Eleven [Crime]





The treasure was kept mostly in two wooden chests, and locked away in a bank vault: thousands of coins, jewelry and figurines, some around 2,600 years old. For decades it sat in the bank, unattended despit...
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Genius Thieves Get Caught on Video By the Same Security Cameras They Were Stealing [Bad Ideas]





If you're looking into becoming an enterprising criminal, don't be like these guys. Why? Because these two super slick robbers stole security cameras... without bothering to steal the security cam's footag...
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How a Pimp's Android Pattern Lock Foiled the Feds [Crime]





The FBI seems to be having a bit of trouble accessing electronic evidence lately. First there was the case of the forgotten encryption key, and now the Bureau is unable to prosecute a notorious San Diego p...
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The App That Turns You Into a Government Informant [Privacy]





The state of West Virginia has developed an app that will turn people into government informants: the Suspicious Activity Reporting Application. It's an app loaded with good intentions, but it could go ver...
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Philadelphia Bus Troll Jams Cell Phone Signals When People Talk Too Loudly [Wireless]





I can understand the need for enforced cell phone silence in a variety of venues—libraries, funerals, theaters. But on a public bus in the middle of Philadelphia? Call me old fashioned, but that's ki...
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'Find My iPad' Leads Cops to 780 Pounds of Crystal Meth [Crime]





What happens when your iPad is stolen and you have Find My iPad turned on? Well you give your info to police, they track it down for you, and then seize 780 pounds of crystal meth in the process. Wait, wha...
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Internet Bandits Steal More Than $200,000 in Bitcoin [Crime]





Thieving hackers just raided the coffers of several prominent Bitcoin exchanges and made off with $220,000 worth of digital bullion. Ouch. It turns out that a crapload of devalued Bitcoin still adds up to ...
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How One "Rogue Vehicle" Took an Impromptu Tour of Philadelphia's Runways [Planes]





Air traffic controllers move over 1200 flights through Philadelphia International every day. Their job is grueling with zero margin for error and isn't getting any easier thanks to Kenneth Richard Mazik an...
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Feds Decrypt Defendant's Laptop Without Her Permission [Crime]





Remember the defendant in that fraud case who claimed to have forgotten the password for her encrypted laptop? Well, the Feds have gone ahead and cracked it right open, without her permission. More ...
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This Guy Robs Banks by Threatening Nuclear Annihilation [Crime]





I'm not sure if I should be more impressed that this Prince George's County criminal has successfully knocked over a string of banks without being caught or the fact that he had the balls to rob them while...
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Chinese Villages Use Giant Balloons to Steal Natural Gas [Wtf]





What would you do for simple gas to cook, or heat your home during the winter? Would you be willing to fill a giant bag full with natural gas and carry it into your home, at the risk of, well, exploding? B...
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