SUSPECT CREATIVE IN BREAKING INTO LIQUIOR STORE
A man in Alaska didn’t just try to pick a lock or break the glass with a brick when he wanted to break into a liquor store. He just ‘borrowed’ a front-end loader from a construction site and smashed in the front windows.
A witness called police, telling them they saw the man enter the store, return with several bottles of liquor, and leave the scene of the crime. The front-end loader was not hard to locate on the Anchorage streets, and the police were soon in pursuit of the man, who was drunk. Officers finally stopped him when they blocked the exit from an RV park.
Officers arrested Joseph Martin, who was charged on several counts, including criminal mischief, failure to stop at the direction of an officer and felony DUI.
BALLOON FLIGHT BRINGS FINE TO CANADIAN MAN
All Daniel Boria of Calgary, Canada wanted to do was advertise his cleaning company, so he hooked up more than 100 helium balloons to a lawn chair and took off, with a sign with the name of his company on it flying below the chair.
Unfortunately for Boria, the police were not particularly amused at his ingenuity. A Provincial court judge fined the adventurer $20,000 after he pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of an aircraft.
Prosecutors weren’t trying to stifle the man’s creativity. They explained in court that his flight, which went for two-and-a-half miles, interfered with the flights of commercial aircraft and put hundreds of lives in danger.
The judge went even further, calling the flight “dumb and dangerous” and “unconscionably stupid.”
The judge approved a plea deal to have Boria pay $3,750 in fines, and donate $15,000 to charity.
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