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Picture of Cash Posted on Facebook Leads to Home Robbery [Facebook]
Some people who use Facebook are dumb. Like a 17-year-old Australian girl who posted a picture of a massive pile of cash to her Facebook account and was then shocked when, just hours later, her house was broken into and the money demanded from her.More »
Woman finds stolen iPhone as suspected thief's photos appear on Photo Stream via Apple's iCloud
“Unbeknown to the thief, pictures he began taking on the phone were automatically uploaded to the owner's iCloud account, which allows data to be stored remotely,” Murray Wardrop reports for The Telegraph.“The phone's owner, Katy McCaffrey then set about unmasking him by posting...
This Terrible Thief Used a Stolen iPhone to Take Pictures That Synced Back to the Owner's Computer [Crime]
That's Nelson above. That's Nelson partying. That's Nelson with his girlfriend. All those pictures were taken with an iPhone he stole. Pictures that were automatically sent to the phone's original owner, Katy McCaffrey, through Photostream. McCaffrey posted a hilarious Facebook photo album detail...
Hack Politician and Son Arrested for Political Hack [Hackers]
55-year-old Mayor of West New York, NJ, Felix Roque and his son Joseph, 22, were arrested today for allegedly hacking the website www.recallroque.com that was set up to rally support to recall the politician.More »
The Most Perfect Tasing You'll See This Week [Video]
The would-be female thief in this surveillance video seems like a smooth operator—until she gets zapped with a taser and falls to the ground like a stiff board. We've seen our fair share of tasings, but this is the platonic ideal of taser drops.More »
How Does an 800-Year-Old Giant Tree Go Missing? [WTFriday]
Enterprising tree poachers have stolen a gold, er, woodmine of a target: an 800-year-old red cedar tree that's one of the largest in the Vancouver Island area. It's gone now and it was stolen under a two-part operation that's been underway for the past year.More »
Woman Returns Lost iPhone, Is Rewarded with a Brutal Beating [Crime]
Losing an iPhone is the absolute worst. They inconvenience, the expense... Just terrible. So, when a good samaritan gets in touch to let you know she's found your phone, the appropriate response ought to be gushing, gurgling gratitude. Right?More »
Cops Found a Ridiculous Amount of Drugs Up Some Guy's Butt [Crime]
Eighty-four bags of crack. Two hundred-eighteen Oxycodone pills. Eleven grams of weed. If that sounds like enough drugs to fill a small warehouse, you're right. Assuming that warehouse was Alex Boulet's butt.More »
iPhone-Thieving Hookers Cause a Motel Shootout [Crime]
Partaking in a prostitute's services is risky enough as it is—even more so when her fingers are as nimble as her tongue. Two Stockton, CA men learned this lesson the hard way Thursday after a pair of pilfering prostitutes made off with their phones and they responded in the dumbest way poss...
Man Rams a Store with a Stolen Tractor to Steal Deodorant [WTFriday]
Out in Chicago, a wild man who was apparently in a desperate need of deodorant, stole a Bobcat tractor from a construction site and then drove it through the gates, window and wall of a store. He grabbed a couple cans of deodorant, a few gift cards for good measure and then left.More »
