Reader's Digest

July• 2018 | 79

READER’S DIGEST

England found the getaway car they
discovered the crooks’ GPS system
showing police where the thieves were
headed. Even dumber however one
of the men had left their address in
the car. he three young thieves were
jailed for a total of 21 years.

Go Directly to Jail

ITWASLATEONEAUTUMNevening
when police on patrol in Flensburg
Germany saw a young man acting
oddly. The officers approached the
man and checking his name with po-
lice iles found that he was wanted on
three separate arrest warrants. Rather
than hang around and await his fate
the 24-year-old ran away as fast as he
could jumped into a nearby car and
told the driver to “put his foot down”.
he young man had climbed into an
unmarked police vehicle – and not too
much later found himself in jail.

Better han Free

LAST YEARan undetermined num-
berofmisguidedthievesbrokeinto
ashopafterhoursinZeistHolland
andranoffwithatelevisionset.
Clearly they did not know that they
had entered a “give-away store” –
part of a recycling project – where

everything is free. On top of that

the television they had stolen was

broken! hey have been caught.

Unlucky Friday

IT WAS FRIDAY THE 13THwhen

two masked men decided to rob a

jewellerystoreoutsidetheSwedish

capitalofStockholm.Butitwasn’t

their day. Clearly amateurs the men

illed a big bag with stolen goods but

when they returned to their scooter

–theirgetawayvehicle–notonlydid

itnotstartrightawaythebigbagof

loot was too unwieldy to carry. he

two were arrested just metres from

the store.

Foiled By Greed

HAVE YOU EVER WONDEREDif you

could lift a bag containing 20000 cig-

arettes – give or take a few? Well... af-

ter loading up with around 1000

packets of cigarettes three crooks

were unable to get their booty up and

over or around the tobacco counter

out of the shop and away: it was just

too heavy. So not surprisingly when

police arrived at the supermarket in

the Midlands of England the men led

empty-handed. The men were sen-

tenced to a total of 14 years in jail.

THREATS PARENTS DISH OUT

“We will leave non-sequitur embarrassing comments

on your social media posts.”

“We hope you have twins.”MCSWEENYS.NET