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Offbeat News tagged with Crime

Police Hunting Subway Pervert for X-Rated Gross-Out on G Train
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, pervert, expedition, sicko, police, crime )

Lone
- 17 hours ago - nydailynews.com
Cops are searching for a subway pervert who they say exposed and fondled himself in front of an 18-year-old woman in Queens
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Rare 'Christmas Tree' Stolen From Seattle's Arboretum - Holiday News - Holidash
Offbeat  (tags: funny, crime, environment, chainsaw dude, Christmas trees )

Barbaroca
- 1 day ago - news.holidash.com
Just to clear things up for anyone who may be confused: The Washington Park Arboretum is not a Christmas tree farm even though...yes, some of them do look "Christmas-y."
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In Recession, Crime Doesn't Take a Holiday
Offbeat  (tags: holidays, crime, police, interesting, protection )

Lone
- 2 days ago - bostonherald.com
Police and watchdog groups are warning against a surge in holiday crime at malls, on busy streets and in parking lots, fearful that financially desperate crooks will tarnish the gift-buying
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Bat Preservation Area Being Used to Rob People
Offbeat  (tags: muggers, thieves, bat preservation area, darkness, crime )

Simone
- 4 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The group have struck 13 times in the past two months because the towpath on a stretch of Regent's canal in Islington, has limited lighting to ensure the nocturnal bats living there are not scared off. In the past eight weeks, the 15-strong gang have
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Police Follow Footprints in Snow to Find Alleged Burglar's House
Offbeat  (tags: dumb criminal, police, funny, crime, stupid )

Lone
- 6 days ago - localnews8.com
AMMON - The overnight snow made finding an accused burglar easy for Bonneville County Sheriff's Deputies Tuesday. They say they followed foot prints in the snow from the scene of the crime straight to the suspect's door.
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Conch Shell Arrest : A Repeat of 1847 - Abhishek Kadyan
Offbeat  (tags: ethics, government, business, crime, police, environment )

Abhishek
- 9 days ago - epaper.hindustantimes.com
Founder Chairman of the People for Animals (SPCA) Haryana Naresh Kadyan, representative of the International Organisation for Animal Protection - OIPA in India, which is duly affiliated with the United Nation since 1992, conducts these raids in Kuruksheta
2 comments
Safe Parking for Truck Drivers: H.R. 2156: Jason's Law
Offbeat  (tags: truck drivers, Jason's Law, unsafe parking, petition, truck stops, semi truck, dangers, crime, safety )

Kelli
- 13 days ago - associatedcontent.com
The dangers of unsecured places for truck drivers to park, some safe truck stops to consider and a petition to sign to insure safe lighting and secured parking areas.
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U.K. Will Not Oppose Autistic Hacker's Extradition [Post 9/11 Hacking Into FBI Files]
Offbeat  (tags: crime, autism, society, Police State, protection, world )

Janet
- 17 days ago - thechronicleherald.ca
Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he will not intervene in the case of Gary McKinnon, who is accused by U.S. prosecutors of hacking into computers shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.McKinnon claims he was searching for evidence of alien life
1 comment
Cherokee Nation Mutual Help Home Tests Positive for Meth
Offbeat  (tags: Meth lab, cooked house, crime, dangerous )

Lone
- 25 days ago - cherokeephoenix.org
WAGONER, Okla. - A modest brick home with blue trim sits in a nice neighborhood. A passerby could walk by and never guess that methamphetamine was cooked in the home. That was the case at a Cherokee Nation Housing Services Mutual
5 comments
3 Accused of Using Craigslist to Rob People
Offbeat  (tags: police, craigslist, robbery, crime, bizarre )

Lone
- 25 days ago - chicagobreakingnews.com
Three men are accused of using the popular Web site Craigslist to rob a number of people by luring them to alleys on the promise of selling them televisions and other items, Chicago police said
3 comments
Shaming Undermines Justice
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, crime, signs, public, news )

Lone
- 28 days ago - blogs.usatoday.com
Across the country, judges and prosecutors and jailers are freelancing by imposing their own brands of retributive justice: forcing people to wear humiliating clothing, parade in public and even sleep in doghouses. The punishments are wildly
4 comments
State Farm Ordered to Pay Texas Homeowners $310 Million for Overcharging
Offbeat  (tags: rip-offs, insurance policies, crime, interesting )

Lone
- 28 days ago - dallasnews.com
AUSTIN - State Farm Insurance must repay its customers $310 million for charging them too much for homeowners coverage dating back to 2003, the state insurance commissioner ruled Monday.
3 comments
How Hitler and the Nazi's Tried to Steal Christmas
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, bizarre, Nazis, crime, culture )

Cal
- 29 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The Nazi Party tried their best to remove Christ from Christmas by paganising carols, producing glittering swastika, iron cross and toy grenade baubles for the fir tree, research for a new exhibition has found.
10 comments
Oldest Graffiti Vandal Arrested: 74-Year-Old Gets Tagged By Cops
Offbeat  (tags: graffiti, humor, funny, unusual, crime, police )

Lone
- 30 days ago - nydailynews.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 74-year-old man said to be the oldest graffiti vandal ever captured in Los Angeles County was arrested Friday, authorities said
8 comments
Brazilian Man Turns Up Alive at His Own Funeral-As Is Customary in Brazil, the Funeral Was Held the Following Day.
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, odd, interesting, bizarre, auto, crime, humor, performance, police, safety, society, news )

Suzybell
- 36 days ago - metro.co.uk
A Brazilian man who was thought to have been killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family when he turned up alive at his funeral. Relatives of bricklayer Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a car crash on Sunday night, pol
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