Weird Criminal Law Stories 102
Worcester, MA: Antonio Judd of Worcester was sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing a hot dog from a man at gunpoint. Judd walked up to the victim in a park, stole the hot dog and devoured it, spilling mustard all over his shirt. When police arrested Judd they found a pellet gun and a knife in his pocket.
Yes, we know…as a thief he couldn’t cut the mustard. Yuk, yuk, yuk…
Haverhill, MA: A robbery in this Massachusetts town was thwarted when a convenience store clerk said he would give the crook the money only if he first showed the gun he claimed to have. This left Adam Alsarabi so flustered that he ran and was later caught nearby — unarmed — by police.
El Stupido!
Waterloo, IA: A man walked into a convenience store in Waterloo, acted suspiciously and kept his hand in his pocket. The clerks, who had been robbed before,
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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: The advent of the “butt bomb??” Recently, a suicide bomber put himself next to a member of the Saudi royal family, having outwitted bomb detection machines in the palace, to set off an explosion using a charge that had been hidden in his rectum. The assassin, Abdullah Asieri, stashed a pound of explosives and a detonator inside his body in the attack on Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of counter-terrorism for the kingdom. Bin Nayef was only slightly wounded in the attempt. The explosion, possibly detonated by a cellphone, killed the bomber.
A butt bomb…what will these crazy people think of next…
Philadelphia, PA: This next one is about an explosive bowel movement! Nikita Fulton is suing a Philadelphia company after she claimed its toilet blew up beneath her,
