In 2009, three robbers broke into Berlin's Kaufhaus des Westens supermarket and stole nearly $7 million worth of jewelry. At the crime scene, one of the accomplices left a glove, and two identical twins, Hasan and Abas, were arrested based on a DNA test. But since they have almost the same DNA, and no additional evidence was found, the court was forced to release the twins from custody. This is not the first case in world judicial practice when a criminal manages to escape punishment due to the presence of an identical twin.

In 1897, Zona Heister was found dead in her home with her husband Edward Shue. Four weeks after the funeral, the ghost of her daughter allegedly appeared to the mother of the Zone and said that her husband was guilty of her death, who strangled her by breaking her neck. The mother persuaded the police to exhume the body, and the autopsy showed that the Zone did indeed have a broken neck, and there were fingerprints on the throat, as a result of which Shu was arrested. During the trial, Zone's mother testified so confidently that the judge could not find a way to convince the jury not to decide based on the words of the ghost, and as a result, Shu landed in jail.

In 1993, Otto Neumann, an employee of an Austrian bank, organized a robbery on his shift, in which two of his accomplices participated. Money was taken out of the bank for an amount equivalent to today's 167 thousand euros, as well as gold bars and coins. The crime was solved, all the loot was returned, and Newman spent three and a half years in prison. In 2012, it turned out that the bank did not claim the stolen amount, which was kept in the Ministry of Justice, as it received it under insurance, did not apply for it, and Insurance Company who received the gold. As a result, the court decided to transfer the money to Newman, who was very surprised by this decision, but did not refuse.

As a student at the Sorbonne, the Japanese Issei Sagawa killed his classmate in 1981 and ate various parts of her body for two days. However, he failed to get rid of the corpse unnoticed. He was arrested, but declared insane during a psychiatric examination, as a result of which it was decided to deport Sagawa to Japan to be placed in a mental hospital. Since the period of detention was not specified, after only 15 months, Sagawa was discharged from there and since then has been leading an ordinary life and enjoying a certain fame - he is invited to film in films and even lead restaurant reviews.

Since 1993, 40 crimes have been committed in Germany, Austria and France, including 6 murders, after which samples of one woman's DNA were found at the crime scene or on the body of the victim. The alleged killer became known as the "Phantom of Heilbronn". The police could not find any leads, and the crimes had nothing in common - completely different victims, places, accomplices. It was only in 2009 that it was established that there really was no connection between all these cases. It turned out that DNA samples were taken with cotton swabs, which were initially contaminated with the DNA of their packer in an Austrian factory.

American Gary Gilmore committed several robberies and murders and was sentenced to death in 1977. Before the execution, he was given the right to the last word, and Gilmour said: “Let's Do It” (“Just do it”). Subsequently, this phrase inspired Nike to create the famous “Just Do It” slogan.

In 1925, the Czech Viktor Lustig pulled off a scam to sell the Eiffel Tower. Having gathered several businessmen at a secret meeting, he announced that the government could no longer maintain the tower and was forced to hand it over for scrap. His victim was Andre Poisson, who paid a huge amount in cash, and after he recognized the deception, he did not even go to the police, fearing shame in business circles. A month later, Lustig returned to Paris and sold the tower again. True, the new buyer nevertheless turned to the police before completing the transaction, but the swindler managed to avoid arrest. After emigrating to the United States, Lustig continued to engage in fraud and ended his days in Alcatraz prison.

In 1918 and 1919, a serial killer was operating in New Orleans, who received the nickname Lumberjack for killing victims with an ax. He has at least eight lives on his conscience, and the crimes ended as unexpectedly as they began. Before the murders, he wrote letters to the city newspapers, most famously a letter warning that the next murder would take place 15 minutes after midnight and that he would not harm those who would listen to jazz. At the appointed time, all entertainment venues were full, and professionals and amateurs played jazz right on the street.

In 1910, a criminal sentenced to death shouted into the crowd: "Drink Van Houtten's cocoa!" in exchange for a substantial sum from the cocoa manufacturer for the heirs. This phrase hit all the newspapers, and sales increased dramatically.

Ideal crimes do exist, if only because some robberies and murders committed 10, 50 and even 100 years ago have not yet been solved. However, criminals often hatch a seemingly ideal plan, but then some unaccounted for trifle interferes in the course of events and puts an end to a criminal career. The editorial staff of Find out everything.rf has collected several cases when a carefully planned operation collapsed due to a banal trifle.

A hacker let down by his love for video games

Max Butler, nicknamed Iceman (not to be confused with the serial killer Iceman - his story will be told in the film with Michael Shannon) was a gifted hacker who organized the largest theft of credit card numbers in history at that time.

In the spring of 1998, he hacked into a government website while the local programmers were fixing the security system. But he was quickly identified and in 2001 was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for unauthorized access to federal data. After his release, he wrote a utility for the Bifrost Trojan, which allowed him to avoid the attention of the antivirus. The program helped him connect to the American Express database. Butler stole credit card numbers and resold them to third parties. In total, he stole about 2 million credit card numbers, for which he received $ 86 million.

The guy could not be traced. Having become rich, he decided to retire and began an ordinary life with his girlfriend, who did not even know who she was sharing a bed with. But in 2007, FBI agents knocked on the door of Butler's house. They calculated him because of an insignificant detail of his biography.

In 2006, the feds arrested Butler's 21-year-old former accomplice, Jonathan Janonna, for selling data from other people's cards. The young man "split" and spoke about all his misdeeds, including cooperation with Butler. Of course, Jonathan didn't know his real name. But during the interrogation, the guy mentioned that his accomplice once told how he was one of the two main suspects in hacking the source code of the Half-Life-2 game. These two names were well known to the FBI - the first was the German Axel Dzhembe, who was guilty and was already behind bars at that time, and the second was Max Butler. The fraudster received 13 years in prison, but then knocked off the term by several months - until 2019.

Daring smuggler of Mexican fast food

In 2017, Texas Juvenile Justice Officer Gilberto Escamilla, 53, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for stealing over a million dollars. public funds with the help of ... fajitas.

The scheme was ingeniously simple: he ordered a batch of fajitas from a local Mexican restaurant on behalf of the Authority. The delivery arrived, he met the courier and took the order, and the invoice was issued to his management. It turns out that the state paid for the food ..

Surprisingly, Escamilla got away with it for nine years. During this time, he enriched himself by $ 1.2 million. The Agency had a prison for juvenile delinquents, so the restaurant decided that the state decided to feed them fast food. And the leadership of the Office did not notice anything - here it is, a confused bureaucracy. The man who worked there for many years knew all the subtleties of internal chicanery and was not afraid to be calculated.

But no matter how much the rope twists, the end will come. Starting with small volumes, Gilberto got a taste, and by the time everything was covered with a copper basin, he placed an order for 363 kilograms of Mexican flatbread. The cunning civil servant was let down by a truck driver - he could not even think that such a large order was intended for a private person, and immediately went to the catering department of the Office, where they only shrugged their hands in surprise - what kind of fajitas?

At the trial, Escamilla admitted his guilt and complained about his greed. After all, if he continued to make small purchases, most likely, he would not have been calculated.

When awkwardness is useful

Among the robbers, "air crimes" are considered a special chic. So the Briton Rawson Watson could earn credibility among colleagues in the underworld, if not for a minor turmoil.

With the help of accomplices at London's Heathrow Airport, he made his way into the cargo hold of a passenger Boeing en route to Madrid, opened the skin and hid there until the flight began. He knew that there would be a suitcase filled with Spanish pesetas (there were about 1.5 million in British currency inside). He had a special wooden box into which he transferred the money. The calculation was that by the time the recipient of the suitcase with the pesetas opened it and discovered it was missing, while the security service was looking for all the passengers who had disembarked, Rawson would be far away.

But alas, the worker serving the luggage belt turned out to be either too weak, or clumsy - he accidentally dropped Rawson's suitcase. From the blow, it opened, revealing the stolen banknotes to the world. The thief took off running and managed to escape from the chase - this happened in 2000, even before the September 11 attacks, so the meager security at the airport could not cope. However, skin particles remained on the skin of the Boeing, and Rawson's DNA ended up in the police database. When 3 years later the police stopped him for drunk driving, they soon rejoiced at the unexpected bonus.

Bank robbery in the USSR

On August 5, 1977, 1.5 million rubles were stolen from the state bank of the Armenian SSR - adapting to modern realities, about 2 million dollars.

It all started like this: two brothers - Nikolai and Felix Kalachyan - received valuable information from the gunner: the money is in the vault on the second floor. The walls and doors of the room are armored, but the ceiling is ordinary, concrete. Above the vault is a staff lounge, which can be accessed through the roof of an adjacent residential building adjacent to the wall of the bank building. There is no security inside the bank building, because the money is hidden in a secure vault under the alarm.

The criminals developed a plan for 5 months and thought through everything to the smallest detail. The plan was to climb onto the roof of a neighboring house and jump through the window of the staff room, then make a hole in the floor and go down to the vault. They even stocked up on a children's umbrella and water: they were going to tie the first one to their leg so that the falling sounds of crumbling concrete would not make a noise, and they thought with the liquid to cool the drills and quench their thirst from exhausting work.

A week before the operation, Nikolai had an accident and ended up in the hospital, but after conferring, the brothers decided to act according to the old plan. Everything went like clockwork. Once in the room through the window, Felix made a hole in the floor with a diameter of 34 cm and got out with 30 kg of banknotes. The brothers managed to escape without leaving a single clue to the investigators. Except for one, most of the stolen banknotes were AI series.

By Brezhnev's decree, the production of this series was frozen, and already issued banknotes were forbidden to be put into circulation. The Kalachian brothers figured out how to get around the obstacles by buying up government bonds to cash out later. In this way, they managed to “launder” about 100,000 rubles in Tashkent, where they turned a blind eye to the government’s decree. Later, one of the brothers had an affair with Lyudmila Aksenova and asked her brother Vladimir to buy bonds. He went to the savings bank, but due to the delay of the cashier (she chatted with her friend), he panicked and ran away, leaving 3,000 rubles in the cashier.

The cashier suspected something was wrong and ran to the police, where, thanks to her photographic memory, she managed to describe a portrait of a strange visitor. The authorities quickly reached out to Vladimir and found out the identity of his sister's lover. On the night of June 7, 1978, the Kalachyan brothers were arrested. They were sentenced to death, but the leadership of the Armenian SSR obtained a pardon from the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The pardon document arrived at its destination a day after the sentence was carried out.

Chicago "murder for excitement"

A couple of young people from Chicago in the 20s - 17-year-old Richard Loeb and 18-year-old Nathan Leopold - got bored with life very quickly. Their parents were so rich (one had a supermarket chain, the other was a ship owner) that they fulfilled their sons' every whim. In addition, both graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and were admirers of Nietzsche's nihilistic ideas.

Such a cocktail of life circumstances "gave" the world two cynics, confident in their own superiority over the rest of the "Untermines". In correspondence, young people often called each other "supermen for whom there are no obstacles." Not surprisingly, the idea of ​​killing "for no reason" eventually wandered into their heads. Both wanted to test the limits of their abilities and looked forward to how the police would be knocked off their feet, scouring the city in search of killers.

The criminals planned the murder for four months. The victim was 14-year-old Bobby, with whom Nathan played tennis. On the eve of the chosen date (May 24, 1924), Natasha, under a false name, rented a car and bought items from a hardware store to kill the boy and disfigure the corpse: a chisel, rope, and hydrochloric acid. Thanks to connections, he also managed to get 2 pistols.

The criminals met Bobby at the school in a car and offered him a ride. The boy agreed; he had only a few minutes to live - the journey from the school to the outskirts of the city, where with one blow of the chisel, Richard ended his life. After waiting for the night, the guys wrapped Bobby's body in a bathrobe and pushed him into a drainpipe by the railroad, after which they sent a ransom letter to their parents and burned all the evidence. No evidence, no witnesses.

Bobby's body was found the very next day. This is because the flow of water in the pipe turned out to be stronger than Richard and Nathan expected, and slightly pushed the body out. In the morning, railroad workers saw a pale foot sticking out of the pipe. Arriving police found expensive glasses at the crime scene, of which only a few units were sold in the city. One pair belonged to Nathan ... And if the lawyers could still refute this accusation, then when the examination checked Richard's typewriter and found out that the note to the parents was written with its help, it became useless to deny it. The young men confessed to their deeds and received a life sentence.

A few words about the fate of the criminals: thanks to the money of their parents, both were provided with almost resort conditions in the cells. Richard forcibly forced other prisoners to sleep with him, and eventually one of the victims fought back and cut him to death with a razor blade. But Nathan was pardoned in 1958. Having repented of his deed, he devoted the rest of his life to auxiliary work in the church and died in 1971 from a heart attack.

The Great Train Robbery

The greatest railroad robbery in history took place on August 8, 1963. In a raid on a mail train en route from Scotland to London, 15 people took in, and their “catch” amounted to 2.3 million pounds, which today is equivalent to 46 million pounds or almost 4 billion rubles! By the way, the money was dilapidated and subject to write-off, so in fact there were no real victims in this theft: they were supposed to be described and burned in the London State Bank.

The leader of the gang, a young antiquarian Bruce Reyndols, already had experience in gang raids. A year earlier, he and his subordinates had robbed a cash-in-transit van at Heathrow Airport, stealing £62,000, and even earlier he had served several years in prison, first for burglary, then for beating up a bookmaker.

Although the Great Train Robbery was later romanticized in the press and cinema, it was just the usual dastardly gangster raid. For several months, Bruce hatched a robbery plan and trained accomplices on a rented abandoned farm, bringing their actions to automaticity. On August 8, the plan was put into action. Reynolds' accomplice put a black bag on a burning green semaphore in advance and, using a flashlight, simulated a red stoplight. As the train stopped, a gang wearing ski masks broke into the driver's cab. Hacking the armored doors turned out to be a simple matter, and literally in 5 minutes the criminals reloaded bags of banknotes into a truck fitted in advance to the tracks.

There were no witnesses who would have met their car on the way to the headquarters farm - the Reynolds guys had installed fake roadwork signs on their route in advance, so that all the cars moved around. And already from the farm, the money was transferred on a rented maize plant.

The search for the robbers began immediately. The fact that people appeared on the abandoned farm, the police quickly learned. But the detectives were met by an absolutely empty farm with fingerprints erased from all possible surfaces. Reynolds did not take into account one thing - out of boredom, his subordinates wanted to play "monopoly" lying around in the attic. They completely forgot to erase the prints from it. All the “fingers” were found in the file cabinet, and it was not difficult to figure out the identities of the robbers. A year later, 12 out of 15 robbers were arrested, 11 of them received maximum prison terms - 30 years in prison.

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If we consider this crime from the point of view of organization and conduct, it cannot be called ideal. But how lucky the guys, how lucky! On February 25, 2009, three robbers descended a rope ladder through a window into one of the jewelry stores of Des Westens, the second largest shopping center in Europe. Everything, at first glance, went perfectly: the criminals were not detained at the scene of the crime, they managed to escape safely with jewelry, the total value of which exceeded 5 million euros. But there was one big “but”: one of the thieves inadvertently left a glove in the store, from which the police managed to extract DNA. It would seem that the theft was discovered - it remains to detain the "confused" and his accomplices. In fact, everything turned out much more complicated: the owner of the evidence was one of the two twin brothers.

Long live German justice, the fairest and most honest justice in the world! Probably, with such words, the detainees Hassan and Abbas left - the same twins, one of whom left evidence during the theft in the shopping center. The police were able to isolate DNA from the material of the glove, but they could not reliably determine which of the two brothers it belongs to - the young people are identical twins and have an almost identical DNA chain. And according to the laws of Germany, each violator must be convicted individually. Nothing is known about the third person involved in the robbery.

2nd place. The only thing unsolved crime in US aviation history

In the long history of aviation in the United States of America, there have been many cases of terrorists hijacking an aircraft and demanding a ransom. But only one crime remains unsolved...

On November 24, 1971, the night before Thanksgiving, a certain Dan Cooper boarded a plane flying to Seattle at Portland Oregon Airport. The man was dressed in a long raincoat and dark glasses, holding a briefcase in his hands. He walked through the cabin and took a seat at the back. Having lit a cigarette, the passenger called the stewardess to him, ordered whiskey and handed the girl a note with the message that there was a bomb in the briefcase. The main requirement of the criminal in exchange for the safety of the health and life of passengers and crew was the payment of $ 200,000. Dan Cooper also demanded that he be provided with 4 serviceable parachutes. The authorities fulfilled all the requirements of the criminal, giving him money and parachutes at the Seattle airport. Immediately after the transfer of the ransom, the criminal released all passengers and ordered the pilot to take off and head for Mexico. When the plane crossed the mountains located northwest of Portland, the terrorist put on a parachute and landed. It is still unknown if the robber managed to survive the jump. Only in 1980, about $ 6,000 was found on the ground in the area where the criminal was tentatively supposed to land ...

3rd place. Boston Robbery

Another holiday-related robbery, another unsolved robbery. On March 18, 1990, on St. Patrick's Day, police officers approached the door of the art museum in Boston, telling the watchman that an alarm had been received at the post that robbers had entered the building. The watchman immediately opened the door and was immediately handcuffed. It turned out that criminals who decided to rob the gallery were hiding under the police uniform. The guard was ordered to call his partner on the radio, who was also shackled with iron bracelets. A few minutes later, the robbers left the museum, taking with them 13 of the most expensive paintings, among which were priceless masterpieces by Vermeer, Degas, Rembrandt. More than 12 years have passed, and not one of the thieves for this crime has been detained, the paintings have not appeared on the market ...

4th place. Japanese robbery

Tokyo, Japan, December 10, 1968, a local bank's cash-in-transit vehicle transports 300 million yen (the equivalent of $817,000). Everything goes smoothly until a police motorcycle appears behind the collectors. The officer of the law informs the bank employees that a bomb has been planted on the car. Previously, the bank received similar threats, and the information does not seem strange. Passengers leave the car, the policeman bent down to inspect the bottom for the presence of an explosive device, as a bright fiery flash occurs. Collectors run for cover to escape from the explosion, the policeman at this time calmly gets behind the wheel of a "money" car and hides in the scene. As it turned out later, the policeman was fake. The resourceful man was never identified and caught. In 1975, the statute of limitations for this crime expired, in 1988, all civil obligations were annulled. Yes, the plan turned out to be just perfect, films would be shot according to it ...

5th place. Theft of the largest diamond

It would seem that what could better protect the gem than a closed vault with a lock with 100 million possible combinations, thermal motion sensors, radars and other security features. But, as they say, for every force there is a counterforce. On February 15, 2003, the bandits emptied 123 deposit boxes out of 160. The weight of precious stones was so great that the robbers did not touch the remaining 37 cells - physically they could not carry more. In addition, when they came to work in the morning, bank employees found a lot of scattered diamonds on the floor of the vault.

According to police, at least four people were involved in planning the theft. Part of the group, including its leader, were detained and convicted. The event was planned carefully and for a long time, for several years. Nevertheless, the "diamond team" was pierced through negligence: one of the criminals left his traces in the vault (it turned out to be a trader from the same center), the other threw out a half-eaten sandwich along with a bag in which the stolen pebbles were transported, not far from the crime scene, and the police managed to extract the thief's DNA from the scraps. Although the thieves were apprehended, the diamonds were never found.

6th place. The First National Bank robbery in Chicago.

There are ideal robberies, but there are simply incredible ones, as if their author was David Copperfield or his colleague "in the shop of magic." On Friday, October 7, 1977, before Columbus Day, a bank clerk deposited $4 million in secure vault. Imagine the surprise and shock of the financiers when on Tuesday morning they missed 1 million. Over 36 kilograms of $50 and $100 banknotes vanished into thin air. The police failed to identify the robber. Four years later, in 1981, $2,300 of the stolen money was discovered during the arrest of drug dealers. The rest of the money is still in circulation.

7th place. dashing ladies

On December 4, 2008, just before closing, three ladies entered one of the most famous jewelry stores in Paris. Once inside, the visitors took out a weapon and a grenade and began to rob the salon ... As it turned out later, the ladies were not ladies at all, but men dressed in women's clothes and wigs. The criminals fled the scene in less than 15 minutes, taking with them diamonds, rubies and emeralds worth the equivalent of $108 million. To date, the identity of the robbers has not been established. Investigators only assume that this operation is the work of the notorious Serbian group Pink Panther.

8th place. Priceless artifact in exchange for plastic

Plunging time after time into the depths of the sea off the coast of San Pedro, diver Teddy Tucker fulfilled his dream - he raised a priceless artifact from the seabed - a 22-carat gold cross encrusted with green emeralds. The find was truly priceless (it was a thing from a ship that crashed in 1594), but the treasure hunter decided to sell it to the government of Bermuda. The amount is not yet known. Fortunately for the thief and the misfortune of everyone else, Tucker's golden cross was not destined to appear in the art museum. During transportation, the precious artifact was replaced with a cheap plastic replica. The thief turned out to be so clever that his identity has not yet been established, and the moment at which the theft occurred has not been established. Presumably, the emeralds were removed from the cross and sent to the "black" stone market, and the gold was melted down.

9th place. Robbery in Baghdadi

Saddam Hussein allegedly robbed the country of billions of dollars, and we all know what happened to him later. However, live in Baghdad and more "successful" robbers who got away with the crime... On July 11, 2007, unknown people stole almost 300 million dollars from the vault of one of the private banks. Investigators suspect that the theft was committed by security guards. When employees came to work in the morning, they found that the bank had been robbed, there was no money, as well as security guards. Since the American invasion of Iraq, several banks have been robbed, but this crime was the largest.

10th place. resourceful robbers

This case is a vivid proof that no matter how powerful the locks are, no matter how thick the walls of the safe are, if desired and resourcefulness, they can be safely stolen. 59 times a team of unknown thieves robbed the supermarkets of the French chain Monoprix. In total, the criminals earned about $ 800,000, and so far not a single member of the team has been identified or detained. When designing the vault for money, the designers provided strong walls and other protection, but did not take care of the safety of banknotes on the way to the safe. Money enters the vault through the air duct. Robbers make a hole in the pneumatic channel and connect a powerful vacuum cleaner to it. Voila, and the money does not reach its destination - it ends up in the bags of thieves.

The dumbest criminals and the funniest crimes

THE CASE OF THE ELECTRIC SAW
20-year-old Lake City resident Karen Lee Johimmi has no firearms license
had. So for the robbery, she decided to use the most deadly of what she could
find at home - electric saw.

When she broke into the receptionist's house at the Howard Johnson Motel, demanding immediate
open the safe and give her everything that is there, the hotel staff, contrary to her expectations, did not
scared. The administrator could hardly help laughing as he looked at the girl waving menacingly.
electric saw, the wire of which was dragged along the floor. "Looks like," they said
later the police - she had no idea that the electric saw was dangerous, only if
it is connected to the network.

KOSYACHOK
Gavin Cole boarded the bus with 3 bags of heroin hidden in his pocket.
However, being a complete idiot, he took them out immediately, taking his place and not paying attention to
neighbors. It so happened that an officer of the department for combating drug addiction was sitting opposite,
returning from work in civilian clothes. But... wait, that's not the end of the story...

While he was playing with his heroin sitting right in front of the policeman, his
mobile phone, and the policeman heard the following: “I have drugs. I'll meet you at the bus stop. Not
forget the grandmother!

But... and the story doesn't end there... Thinking that he can finally relax in
anticipating the deal, this idiot lit up... marijuana.

QUESTIONNAIRE
So, one wanted to become a policeman, but ended up in prison only because he indicated in the questionnaire that
he is guilty of unsolved crimes.

Gaynor decided that his vocation was to protect the peace of ordinary citizens, so he decided to become
policemen. He came to the station, announced his intentions, and they gave him a questionnaire for
filling. Among other things, the questionnaire included the following question: “Have you ever made
crimes?" Honest Mr Gaynor answered in the affirmative. Moreover, he pointed out exactly where,
when and how he committed his crimes, which mostly amounted to petty robbery.

In total, Edwin Gaynor committed five crimes, including one car theft.
He also described the clothes in which the crimes were committed. When the cops read
Gaynor's questionnaire, they experienced a state of mild shock. No one ever even in the head
it could come that the offender may have so little gray matter that such
answer the questions in the questionnaire.

The police at first thought it was a hoax, but they checked it just in case.

received information. It turned out that Gaynor did indeed do all of the above.
crimes. Of course, he was arrested and imprisoned, but the fame of him went around the world ...

BROWN LOSER
One guy was nicknamed by the police - Loser Brown. The first time Brown robbed a bank
while serving in the post office. Everything was as it should be - a mask on his face, a gun, a terrible voice. But
he managed not to change the uniform of a postal clerk. And there was a plaque attached to it.
"Brown". The police showed up at his house in half an hour, he had not yet had time to count
money.

For the first robbery, Brown was given five years and released early. And the next time he went
on business in an inconspicuous suit. But there were a lot of people in the bank, and he did not dare to shout.
He pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket, wrote: “Give me money, otherwise I’ll shoot!” and handed it to the cashier. That
gave money. But he still had a piece of paper, which the police found. It turned out that
the note is written on the back of a letter sent to Brown by the police.

MASKED ROBBER
The bank robber didn't have a mask handy. And he found the original, as it seemed to him,
exit. I bought a can of whipped cream from the supermarket and smeared it all over my face. But when
he menacingly demanded money, the cashier rolled with laughter. There was an unexpected hitch.
Meanwhile, the cream from the face of the robber began to slip. He panicked and rushed to the exit. But
because the cream got into my eyes, I confused glass door with the window and passed out,
hitting his forehead on the thick glass. The police brought him back to himself.

STRIP-BOP
There was a weirdo who, after robbing a store, was arrested a few blocks from
crime scene. The policeman was embarrassed by the sight of a naked man. Turns out the burglar is in the heat of the moment
decided that he could be identified by his clothes, and threw his outfits into a trash can.

DO NOT STEAL ON AN EMPTY STOMACH
One of the most ridiculous robberies recent years. Late in the evening, two raiders broke into
to the closing McDonald's, demanding the proceeds and six Big Macs. money to them
they gave it away right away, and in order to warm up the hamburgers, it was necessary to turn on the ovens. Unlucky
the robbers agreed to wait!

When police sirens suddenly flashed in the windows of the restaurant, they rushed to run, taking
food, but forgetting about the money. When the police caught them, it turned out that the raiders never
Haven't tried a single Big Mac.

SLEEP, MY MAD, SLEEP
The thief spotted a lady who was loading a suitcase into the trunk of her
car at the door of a solid mansion. The thief unmistakably determined that she was leaving for
a few days, and soon already felt like a new owner of the house. Gathered valuables, tight
I had a bite, drank good wine, lay down on a wide bed and ... The lady's business trip
unexpectedly canceled, and soon she was waking up the guest along with the police.

FEAR
The thief, who had been wanted for several years, suddenly called the emergency number 911 and
in a haunted voice asked him to be arrested. It turns out that the owners caught the visitor at home
Houses. The area was working, and outside the doors of the room where the thief barricaded himself, he was about to beat him,
looks like a whole block.

SCATTERED SANTA CLAUS
Gregory Harland-White, 40, planned to rob a bank in Tasmania, an island off the south coast of
off the east coast of Australia dressed up as Santa Claus. After that the robber
was going to hide his clothes and leave the crime scene on a bicycle.

Harland-White bought a Santa suit from a shop next to a bank and armed himself with two pieces.
pipes tied together to make this structure resemble a gun. The criminal broke into
bank, forced tellers to give him A$13,451 ($9,963) and
tried to hide. He ran to a previously prepared wagon, in which he undressed. After
which he rushed to the bicycle, left by him nearby.

However, the unfortunate robber forgot to take off Santa's wide pants, which are simply impossible to
was to ride a bike. In any case, he had never done this before. police fast
caught the criminal. Gregory Harland-White was found guilty of bank robbery.

HIGH ROAD ROBBERS
No one knows exactly how many times the Green Bank office in eastern Tennessee was robbed.
He stood on the high road, seemed defenseless and therefore attractive. old ladies,
those who worked in it, habitually and even with benevolent smiles, gave out to the raiders
money. And then they called the police. The thing is that it was possible to leave from there only by
one road. The ladies only noticed in which direction the unlucky ones went this time
robbers. The bank served as a mousetrap - the police easily caught all those who attempted on it
money of villains.

GET TO JAIL!
Police officers in disguise often conduct covert operations, posing as criminals.
Once the police arrested a buyer of stolen goods, but continued to act on his behalf.
The operation lasted two weeks, after which it was decided to finish it. To take things out of the house
an arrested buyer, a loan from a local correctional facility was brought to him
a van with "Jail" written on it.

Loading was in full swing when a bearded man approached the house and offered to buy
cheap a couple of stolen things. He was immediately arrested. One of the policemen could not stand it: “Well, you
I saw a prison van here, why did you poke your nose? "I thought you guys stole the van too"
– the bearded man answered ingenuously.

"BEAR" RUN WITH A LIGHT
Two guys on the eve of the raid stole a mini-van. They did not see that the owner of the car noticed the theft
and ran after them. The robbers entered the bank, safely collected the money. But at the exit
did not find a mini-van! It was the owner who found it and took it.

They tried to run away. One was caught immediately. But the other one was good
runner. Twilight was descending, he hoped to break away from the chase. But the cops seem to
stuck and, in the end, caught up with the raider. "How did you do it?" he wondered.
The cops pointed to his feet. The villain was wearing his favorite sneakers. At every step in their
red lights flashed on the soles of his feet. During the day they are almost invisible...

MONEY FOR THE WIND
Having visited the cafe, the criminal forced the cashier to fold the proceeds into a large paper bag.
However, on the way to the car parked in the parking lot, it cracked, banknotes scattered around
wet asphalt and the raider was left with only a handful of bucks. Opening the car, he broke
key. Frantically trying to open the jammed door, he pulled the trigger of the pistol and shot
own foot...

GRASS IN THE YARD…
During a scouting rally, the mother of one of the participants was arrested. While she was looking at
how a policeman demonstrates to kids the work of a drug-trained search dog,
The dog found a bag of weed in her purse.

INCREDIBLE DULLNESS
A certain lady went to the police with a statement about the theft of a car, while saying that in
the car had a mobile phone. The officer called on the phone, said that, they say, by
ad in the newspaper and long dreamed of such a wheelbarrow. Made an appointment. We met. arrest, trial,
prison.

JOKER
One English driver was spotted by automatic radar. After a while he
I received a receipt for 40 pounds in the mail from the police and a photo of my car. Instead of
pay, he just sent a photo of 40 pounds to the police. A few days later he received
an envelope in which there was again a photo, this time a photo of ... handcuffs. The artistic power of this
the photos turned out to be fantastic - the receipt was paid on the same day

POCKET FULL OF LIES
At trial, drug possession defendant Christopher Jansen stated that he was
searched without a warrant. The prosecutor replied that Jansen's jacket at the time of the search was somehow strange
bulged out, and the officer had suspicions that a pistol was under his jacket, and in this case a warrant
he doesn't need. “Complete nonsense! - Jansen said, - I am now in the same jacket as then - where is
hide the gun?

With these words, he took off his jacket and gave it to the judge. Who found in his jacket pocket a package with
cocaine. I had to take a break in the meeting, because for about five minutes the judge could hardly
sit laughing.

VICTIMS OF PROGRESS
The walking young man drew attention to the police outfit, which showed the district
children a new computer installed in their patrol car. When asked how this thing
works, the policeman took his license from him and began to drive in the data. A few seconds later, the poor fellow
was tied up by all the rules, because the computer screen reproached him for an armed robbery,
committed two years ago in St. Louis, Missouri.

THE FIRE WILL NOT BE FOUND?
This fool could be seen in the program "The dumbest criminals in the world." He doused himself
and his house with gasoline and threatened the police to set himself on fire. When the police were ready to break into
house "on the count of three", he went out and asked them for matches.

Crime is an inevitable phenomenon in any country, no matter how successfully law enforcement agencies fight it. However, everything that is connected with the violation of the law can give rise to curious laws and amazing stories of crimes:

1. In France, it is illegal to post pictures of people in handcuffs until they are officially found guilty of a crime.

2. Few people know that the great scientist Isaac Newton worked as a secret agent and brought to clean water 28 counterfeiters. At least one of them was executed for the crime he committed.

3. Spousal abuse was not a crime in the state of North Carolina until 1993. Until now, in 33 states, rape by a husband of his wife is considered as a crime of moderate gravity.

4. Organized crime is the third largest profitable business in the world after oil and foreign exchange trading.

5. A year after the disappearance of his wife, a Dutch writer of detective stories published a book that described how the husband dealt with his wife. Since the body of the writer's real wife was not found, the police could not bring him any charges. The writer's book brought him popularity, and he married a second time. So he lived for 3 years, until the body of his missing wife was accidentally discovered under a concrete foundation - exactly as described in his book. As a result, the writer was arrested, and later he confessed to the crime.

6. The father of the famous actor Woody Harrelson was a contract killer who in 1982 confessed to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, the police did not find incriminating evidence against him.

7. Two natives of Germany managed to commit an almost perfect crime. After robbing a jewelry store, one of the thieves inadvertently left his glove, from the material of which the police managed to isolate his DNA. However, they could not reliably determine which of the two robbers it belonged to, because they were identical twin brothers and had an identical DNA chain. As a result, the brothers were released right in the courtroom, since according to the laws of Germany, each offender must be convicted individually.

8. In the UK, only men can be convicted of rape, as the law defines penetration only through the penis. Women face less severe penalties for sexual assault.

9. The prototype of Professor Moriarty, the sworn enemy of Sherlock Holmes, is the real criminal of the XIX century, Adam Worth, who received the nickname "Napoleon of the underworld."

10. In New Zealand, security personnel are not allowed to use any technology to capture images of naked people.

11. For 30 years, pinball was outlawed in America. There were even their own crime bosses who organized illegal games of pinball machines.

12. Leaving the United States with more than $5 in pennies is considered a crime for which you can go to jail for 5 years.

13. The criminals who committed the "Great Train Robbery" betrayed the love of board games. After the robbery, a gang of bandits decided to brighten up their leisure time by playing Monopoly, and instead of game currency, she used real money. It was possible to catch the robbers by fingerprints left on chips and bones.

14. The inmates of one offender who committed violent acts with the corpse of a 10-year-old girl named Kate tattooed his forehead with the words "Kate's Revenge" when they learned about the crime he had committed.

15. One Australian fugitive escaped from prison so often that the government placed him in a special cell and promised to drop all charges if he managed to escape from it this time.

16. Seattle, Washington has its own real-life superhero who legally fights street crime.

17. The Vatican, the smallest state in the world, has one of the highest crime rates.