Ridiculous Crimes and other random stories....

Yawning Hippo eats Dwarf Bouncer

Teenager hires undercover officer to kill mother
A 17-year-old boy was arrested while trying to hire an undercover police officer to kill his mother. He instructed the "hitman" not to damage the television during the attack.

Hungry burglar fries fish during burglary
A hungry Dutch burglar was caught frying a fish in a house he was burglaring. The householder woke up when she smelled the cooking in the kitchen.
The 45-year-old burglar told police he had a penchant for fish and that he had taken a cold beer from the fridge to compliment his meal.



Man arranges shooting to get sympathy from ex-girlfriend
A man in Sicily asked a friend to shoot him in the groin in the hope of making his ex-girlfriend feel sorry for him. She later said that she never wanted to see him again.

Tramp drops pants in Court
A psychiatric assessment has been ordered for a homeless man who dropped his pants in a Halifax courtroom Friday and invited the judge to perform oral sex on him.



Cat People
When police went to Michael Vondueren's house to check on his elderly mother, they found over 300 frozen cats in three freezers at the residence. eeeeew!


Blind car thief crashes stolen car

The 24 year old Romanian man decided to steal a car after he had a row with friends about his inablility to do anything. His friends told him he was useless.
He actually managed to break into a parked car and start it with a screwdriver. He even succeeded in driving the car over a busy road for half a mile.
But after that the fun was over.
Alin lost the little control he had over the car and smashed into a tree. Knocked out by the crash, he was later arrested by the police.
THe man told Police: "I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do anything I wanted -despite my handicap. I only crashed because I was not sure of the way home."



Dog Saves Abandoned Baby
The dog was looking for food for her newborn puppies when she reportedly saved a 2-week-old baby girl from a forest in Kenya.
The dog found the baby in a forest south of the capital Nairobi. She then took the infant, wrapped in a dirty, black cloth, then carried it across a busy road and through a barbed-wire fence before placing it close to her own puppies.
The baby was later found by the dog's owner and taken to hospital.

Man in Nepal marries dog for luck and dies
An elderly man from Nepal, 75 years of age, married a dog in a local custom to ensure good luck only to die three days later.
The man was following a custom of his Tharu community. The custom holds that an old man who regrows teeth must take a dog to be his 'lawfully wedded wife'. Odd.