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The Man Who Called 911 to Ask If His Marijuana Plant Was Illegal
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The Man Who Called 911 to Ask If His Marijuana Plant Was Illegal
In 2011, police in Farmington, Connecticut got one of the least strategic 911 calls imaginable. A man reportedly called emergency dispatch to ask how …
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The Smuggler Whose Leg Cast Was Partly Made of Cocaine
In 2009, Spanish police at Barcelona’s airport stopped a man arriving from Chile with what looked like a normal plaster cast on his leg. It was not no…
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The Fake Football Ticket Giveaway That Arrested 101 Fugitives
In 1985, U.S. Marshals pulled off one of the strangest “prize giveaways” in crime history. They created a fake company called Flagship International S…
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The Bank Robber Who Thought Lemon Juice Would Hide His Face from Cameras
In 1995, a Pittsburgh man named McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks in broad daylight with no mask, no clever disguise, and one deeply flawed science ex…
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The Thieves Who Stole a 50-Foot Bridge in Pennsylvania
In 2011, police in western Pennsylvania got the kind of report that sounds like a prank: an entire bridge had vanished. The missing structure was a st…
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