Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 14, 2007 at 1:10:00 PM CEST
3 tonne meteorite stolen in Russia
Russian news agency Interfax is reporting that thieves have stolen a three-tonne meteorite from the yard of the Tunguska Space Event foundation, whose director said it was the part of meteor that caused a massive explosion in Siberia in 1908.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 28, 2007 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
Private-eye hackers are convicted
Two police officers who moonlighted as private detectives have been convicted of bugging phones and hacking into computers on behalf of wealthy clients.
Jeremy Young and Scott Gelsthorpe set up Active Investigation Services and ran a service dubbed "Hackers Are Us".
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 27, 2007 at 9:49:00 AM CEST
Thief asks for "time out" in police chase
Philippine police chased down an unfit thief on Tuesday after he ran out of breath and asked his pursuers for a "time out."
"He was panting and gasping for air when we caught up with him after a 500 meter sprint," Erwin Buenceso, one of the arresting officers, told local radio station dzBB.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 21, 2007 at 10:51:00 AM CEST
Picasso drawing stolen in Austria
A Picasso drawing, valued at 180,000 € has been stolen from the house of a Russian diplomat, a few kilometres from Vienna in Austria. In addition to the artwork the thieves also took several watches and expensive suits.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 13, 2007 at 11:24:00 AM CEST
Virtual Hallucinating Device Drives Police Insane for a Day
Being crazy is hard, but it's worth the effort. Especially if you're a cop, paramedic, or social worker who may someday need to deal with a person having a psychotic episode. At those times, empathy can be crucial.
That's where Virtual Hallucinations comes in. The training device, created by Janssen L.P., is a rig with earphones and goggles that plunges the wearer into the mind of a serious schizophrenic. The system offers two interactive scenarios. In one, you're riding a bus in which other riders appear and disappear, birds of prey claw at the windows, and voices hiss, "He's taking you back to the FBI!" The other features a trip to the drugstore, where the pharmacist seems to be handing you poison instead of pills, and hostile customers stare at you in disgust.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 4, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
Blame It On Nick Nolte
Perhaps Nick Nolte started a trend. What else could explain the preponderance of Hawaiian shirts appearing these days in mug shots? As seen on the following 11 pages, recent arrestees have been photographed in an apparent homage to the wild-haired actor. Of course, had any of these guys cracked a smile while posing for their booking photo, they might have appeared in last week's roundup of giddy perps.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 23, 2007 at 9:45:00 AM CEST
Girl calls for police help over messy room
A nine-year-old German girl was so upset about having to tidy her room she put up a sign in her window urging passers-by to call police for help.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 15, 2007 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Texas man charged with stealing US$250,000 worth of Skittles candy
A little candy can add up to a rainbow of trouble.
A Texas man caught removing tires from a truck that was supposed to contain 28 pallets of Skittles has been charged with stealing US$250,000 worth of the candy, police said.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 15, 2007 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
Mexican anti-drugs officers slain
Two senior Mexican anti-drugs officials have been killed in separate shootings by suspected drug traffickers.
Federal prosecutor Jose Nemesio Lugo was gunned down in his car on the outskirts of the capital, Mexico City.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 11, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM CEST
Colombia hunts underwear robbers
Police in Colombia are searching for members of a gang who target women and steal their underwear in public.
A succession of women, mainly young women and students, have been attacked in the western city of Pereira, often at bus stops early in the morning.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 27, 2007 at 12:47:00 PM CEST
Man robbed bank to buy fake breasts
An Austrian man has been jailed after robbing a bank to pay for a breast operation for his transvestite lover.
Car mechanic Robert Steinwirt, 29, was caught just hours after he handed over the £7,000 he had robbed from the bank in Grinzens, Austria, to a plastic surgeon.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 24, 2007 at 2:07:00 PM CEST
Spilled cheese blocks Chicago Skyway
It was unseasonably warm — but not baking — and that probably helped save a portion of the Chicago Skyway from turning into a gigantic, Windy City-style, deep-dish pizza.
The southeast-bound lanes of the heavily traveled route into Indiana were blocked for hours Sunday morning after a tractor-trailer hauling mozzarella cheese was involved in an accident and spilled its contents onto the pavement near the Skyway tollbooth.
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