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In 2011, police in Farmington, Connecticut got one of the least strategic 911 calls imaginable. A man reportedly called emergency dispatch to ask how much trouble he could get in for growing one marijuana…
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 normal. Authorities said the cast itself had been molded with…
In 1985, U.S. Marshals pulled off one of the strangest “prize giveaways” in crime history. They created a fake company called Flagship International Sports Television and mailed invitations to wanted fugitives…
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 experiment on his face. According to reports, Wheeler had…
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 steel bridge on private property in North Beaver Township,…