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Police said the 44-year-old man, who allegedly stole from 16 elderly people by posing as a police officer, entered Barbro Bostrom’s home, claimed to be an officer and pushed his way into her living room. Bostrom grabbed a stick that she uses to pick up objects on the floor and waved it at him, yelling, “Do you really want it to be on your conscience that you murdered a 100-year-old.” She then struck him in the head. The thief took off when a neighbor heard the noise and rushed in to help. The robber was arrested and charged with aggravated theft and fraud.

A New York man’s drug-smuggling attempt fell through the crack – literally.  A Vermont state trooper pulled over Alex Boulet for a traffic violation and decided to subject him to a routine search. He says he felt something odd in the man’s groin area.  An x-ray showed that Boulet had stuffed 84 bags of crack, 218 oxycodone pills and a small amount of marijuana into his butt before hitting the road — all of which were entered into evidence once Boulet was fed enough laxative to retrieve it.

 State police in St. Lawrence County say the shooting occurred in Stockholm when 25-year-old Shawn Mossow relented to his friend’s repeated requests and shot him once in the right leg with a .22-caliber rifle because the friend wanted to know what it felt like to get shot! The 24-year-old man is expected to make a full recovery. The only prize for being a loyal friend is landing in jail. Mossow was charged with reckless endangerment. He’s being held
in the county jail on $10,000 bail.

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The windshield of Michelle Higgins’ car was smashed and the roof was ripped open by the collision with a moose! When she arrived at work Higgins says that her co workers came running outside to ask if she was OK but she was confused and asked “why?”  Michelle was bleeding and her car was smashed and she had no recollection of the crash.  She had a big scuff mark on her forehead that she believes came from the moose’s hoof and she was badly bruised with 2 fractured neck bones.  The moose died.

The parents of students at Woodberry Public School, north of Sydney AUS, said they were shocked when they spotted the provocatively shaped candies at a Mother’s Day event at the school!  Cassandra Lacey, whose two sons attend the school said, “Every single chocolate was to do with sex like chocolate boobies and other body “parts.” The school says that the gifts were prepared by parents, for parent.  A Department of Education and Communities spokesman said the chocolates were not provided by school officials. School council President Jenny Gray said the official responsible for the chocolates has resigned.

Facebook is a great way to keep tabs on where your pals have been spending their time, as an armed robber in Colombia found out — by failing to log off his account while robbing an internet cafe. The crook and an accomplice sat down at computers in the cafe and proceeded to spend some time pounding the keys — only to stand up after a few minutes, pull out weapons and demand that the clerk empty the cash register. Cops arrived after the two men had fled, but discovered that one had left his Facebook page up on the screen leading to their arrests.

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A pair of wanna-be carjackers inWashington, D.C, found that their getaway was anything but automatic. The men forced the driver and passenger out of the car and into the trunk, but brought one out to drive when confronted with the stick shift. While he drove them part-way to their destination, he bolted the scene, leaving them to fend for themselves — and leaving his female friend in the trunk. The carjackers tried to master the stick in one easy lesson, but failed and took off themselves.

A Florida man who hit the high seas in order to bring home a seafood dinner managed to do just that on dry land — by taking his trawler to a supermarket. The unidentified trawler drove up to the market towing his fishing boat and headed straight to the seafood corner, where he and a pal ordered up a mess of chow. While his pal piled his portion of the take into a shopping cart and wandered away, the felonious fisherman decided he’d like his shrimp stuffed — into his shorts, that is. The shrimp-stealing sailor remains at large.  

A Florida woman had a taste of true love, so she tried to get one more — by biting a chunk out of her boyfriend’s leg when he tried to break up with her. The 41-year-old woman, who was not identified, was said to be “highly intoxicated” when she ended an argument with her live in beau by dropping to all fours and gnawing on his leg hard enough to draw blood. When he ran, dripping precious fluids, she grabbed a paintball gun and threatened him with that. Neighbors who heard the commotion called cops, and the woman was arrested on assault and battery charges.

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A Canadian man is licking his wounds, rather than his fingers, after cops busted him on a distracted driving charge — because he was driving his car hands-free … while eating a rotisserie chicken. A cop spotted Michael Gibson driving erratically and noticed that he was using his knees to steer, while paying more attention to the bowl of chicken sitting in his lap. While the 58-year-old admitted that he may have drifted between lanes a couple of times, he insisted it was not because he was distracted by his lunch.  Gibson racked up a total of $460 in fines for the incident, so it sounds like Canadian cops see eating the bird as even more frowned upon than flipping the bird.

A clerk in a Russian liquor store foiled a robbery by asking the wannabe thief to produce some ID before she turned over the booze — which he couldn’t do, because he was only 16. The teen was waving a machete and demanding liquor and cigarettes, but the law-abiding clerk wouldn’t budge from her position that he was too young to obtain the merchandise — bought or stolen. She eventually gave in after being threatened with the weapon, but held out long enough that cops were able to arrest the kid very near the store.

Investigators said a bar bouncer, whose ID was reported stolen in February, called Iowa City police at Saturday and reported University of Iowa student Steven Fiorella, 19, had handed him HIS stolen ID and attempted to pass it off as his own!  Police said Fiorella, who was also in possession of the bouncer’s debit card and AAA card, told officers he purchased the items at a party for $20.Fiorella was arrested on charges of fifth-degree theft and unlawful use of
another’s ID.

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A man who was detained for attempting to smuggle a bunch of lizards through a German airport says he had no idea he was committing a crime. The man, whose name was not released, was returning from theMiddle East, and had the lizards stuffed into his carry-on luggage. When stopped for questioning, he insisted they were just part of his diet — and offered to bite the head off one of them as proof, a proposal officials declined. Authorities believe he was planning to sell them on the black market for several hundred dollars a pop — a price that may or may not include fries.

Daniel Chong, 23, was at a friend’s house to celebrate 4/20 when DEA agents raided the residence and took him to their office, NBC San Diego reports. Though no charges were filed against him and he was told he could go home, Chong was instead placed in a cell where he spent the next five days with no human contact, no food, and no water, he says. He screamed and kicked the door, but was “ignored,” he says—despite the fact that he could hear DEA employees and others in nearby cells. By the third day, he was “completely insane” and hallucinating, says Chong, who explains he found a powdery substance in the cell and ate it; it was later determined to be meth. By the time he was released, he had lost 15 pounds and his kidneys were close to failing. On the fourth day, he broke his glasses and used the shards to attempt suicide; he even ingested some of the glass. When he was finally found, by DEA employees he described as nervous-looking, he spent three days in intensive care. The DEA has yet to apologize, Chong’s lawyer says.

A Texas teenager got locked up after he had the bright idea of robbing a cop … in the middle of a police station.  Keithan Waltham walked into the Dallas-area precinct with a towel covering his hand and pointed at the dispatch window with it, saying, “Give me all the money.” The officer on duty didn’t take kindly to the request and took the 18-year-old into custody, booking him on charges including attempted robbery.Waltham wants to be released, saying it was all a big joke and insisting, “I didn’t say nothing like that — they didn’t find no guns on me.” No, you just tried to rob a police station.

A Minnesota man may have thought he was king of the jungle, but he ended up swinging right into a jail cell after cops busted him for cursing out neighbors as he mowed his lawn … wearing nothing but a revealing loincloth. One of Matthew Swanson’s neighbors called police after the man allegedly exposed himself while doing his landscaping work — and when officers arrived, he went ballistic, screaming obscenities at them and some children who were playing nearby. Earlier in the day, Swanson supposedly called 911 himself, purely to pepper dispatchers with four letter words.

 Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night could keep aLouisiana man from running over his neighbors’ mailboxes for kicks.  Matthew Burghardt initially came to the attention of cops after his next door neighbor called cops to say that she’d just seen him topple her mailbox — and she recognized him perfectly well, since they’d lived side by side for 15 years. As they were talking, another deputy swung by the scene to say he was investigating a handful of reports of downed boxes as well. When questioned, Burghardt didn’t deny the action, but simply said he didn’t know there was a law against it. He demanded a written summons, but instead got hauled off to jail.

There are drunk dads who designate their not-yet-10-year-olds as designated drivers … and then there are men who just strap their kids to the hood and hit the open road. That’s exactly what happened inFort Wayne,Indiana, say police, who were alerted by a witness who saw a man and woman tie the kids down and drive off, reports the Journal Gazette. Where did they depart from? Why a liquor store, of course! How far did they make it? About three blocks, before aUSMarshal spotted the car adorned with the kids, ages 4, 5, 6, and 7. The unnamed man was arrested on suspicion of DUI, and the woman was taken in for questioning.

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Police in Nashville have busted a 14-year-old boy they believe caused a crime wave in the north of the city single-handedly. The teen—described by police as an “innovative individual”—is believed to have been behind more than 100 robberies over the last two years in which he kicked in back doors and stole TVs, video games, and whatever else he could grab before making his getaway in a go-kart, the New York Daily News reports. The teen was arrested after he was spotted prowling through a back alley and has been charged in juvenile court with aggravated burglary, burglary, theft, possession of burglary tools, and loitering during school hours.

A sheriff’s deputy in South Carolina ended up running on empty after a boozy ride ended with him losing control of both his car and his bladder.  Nicholas Wagner wasn’t seriously injured but did take out 10 feet of guard rail in the wreck, which he tried to explain by saying he’d just had a bad night. When deputies began to question Wagner, one of them noticed a strong smell of alcohol and a wet spot on the front of his pants, which he admitted was the result of him soiling himself at some point in the evening. Wagner’s gun was confiscated, and he was put on administrative leave.

Bringing weed or dope-smoking paraphernalia to a large gathering is generally a bad idea, seeing as you often find cops there. Of course, if that large gathering is being held at the VermontPoliceAcademy, those odds increase tenfold, moving the idea to the “downright stupid” category! Unfortunately for Michelle Bachand, of Lyndonville, Vt., common sense seemed to evade her last Friday when the 26-year-old dispatcher allegedly showed up to an employee training session at the Vermont Police Academy carrying marijuana. Not surprisingly, she was escorted from the session and out of her position with law enforcement, according to police.