Random Ramblings

A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap thatmeasured his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later receivedin the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sentthe police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he receiveda letter from the police that…

A woman was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone and told the guy that he had read the ad in the newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the thief was arrested.

R. C. Gaitlan, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car computer equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the officer asked him for identification. Gaitlan gave them his drivers license, they entered it into the computer, and moments later they arrested Gaitlan…

Guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as…

A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, “Nobody move!” When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.

Arkansas: Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the…

The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walkedinto a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 12:50 am, flashed a gun anddemanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn’t openthe cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, theclerk said they weren’t available for breakfast.…