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[Stupid Crimes]

In other weird stash-hiding news: A man accused of possessing drug paraphernalia and stealing a car managed to find exactly the wrong place to hide the car — at the police station.

[Maui News]

From Fluorescent Justice: When four friends got pulled over, it seemed like just a run-of-the-mill stop — but it wound up costing them $50,000.

[Fluorescent Justice]

A meth ring's cunning strategy for hiding the goods: Stashing them in Tickle Me Elmo dolls.

[AP]

Here's a good way to not get votes on Election Day. A write-in candidate for county sheriff allegedly struck struck a Democratic party treasurer during a rally — and was arrested by his opponent, the incumbent sheriff.

[AP]

Well, here's a new twist on the usual daily naked: A naked burglar stuck in a window.

[AP/ABC]

A would-be bank robber took off without the cash after complaining that the bank teller was taking too long.

[AJC.com, via Fark]

A New York sanitation employee is accused of a strange plan in which he would drop fluorescent light bulbs on the street in front of a restaurant, then charge the owners for littering. Luckily — you guessed it — the whole thing was caught on tape.

[AP]

One man's brilliant plan for getting some time off work: He told them that his daughter had died. (Oh, and then he pocketed their donations.)

[AP]

Or, in this case, naked and screaming at a California hotel.

In other nude news, the prosecutor caught on tape walking around nude in a government building after-hours has been fired from his job.

[Daily News]
[Pal-Item.com]

A fight at a Massachusetts bowling alley was caught on tape when 20 people decided to duke it out with "pool cues, chairs, pool balls and bowling balls."

[NBC10]

A burglary suspect in New York was arrested after tumbling 50 feet from a tree he'd climbed to get away from the cops.

[AP/Newsday]

A man in Belgium allegedly decided to spend his first day out of jail by committing eight — yes, eight — robberies.

[Reuters]

A man with a thing for mannequins was arrested after smashing yet another store window to steal one dressed in a black and white French maid's uniform.

[AP, via Fark]

An inmate told an Australian court that he lost 30 pounds to escape from prison ... to prove to authorities that he could survive on the outside. Uh-huh.

[Reuters]

A burglar took the opportunity to do a little redecorating while he was in the home — rearranging the furniture and replacing the blankets he'd stolen with two "very used and worn out" ones, according to a police report.

[Free New Mexican]

An airline baggage courier in Australia pleaded guilty to stealing samples of women's hair from their lost luggage, and then filing and labeling them.

[AFP]

A Greek burglar was arrested after taking a little catnap in a homeowner's living room.

[10NBC.com]

The boss of a British cleaning company was given six months' probation for cavorting nude around a cemetery, "leaping over gravestones and walls with his trousers and underwear around
his ankles."

[Daily Record]

Second item in this Indiana police blotter: A would-be convenience store robber's semiautomatic handgun was no match for a store employee's two simple words: "My manager...".

[NWI Times]

A man who stole a custom-made trash can and then sold it for $37 has been ordered to pay $800 to replace it.

[Times Colonist]

Wackiness from Ananova: An Austrian toy shop owner allegedly tried to rob a bank using one of his own toy guns.

[Ananova]

We are not making this up: Thieves in Israel stole 40 vibrators and a $200 dildo from a sexologist's car in Tel Aviv.

[AFP]

And she would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that meddling manual transmission.

[Sydney Morning Herald, via Fark]

Police are looking for help in locating a 265-pound fiberglass dinosaur stolen from an Oyster Bay, N.Y. festival.

[AP]

... And in other international strangeness, two Turkish men were sentenced to 15 months in jail after they threw eggs at the prime minister.

[Reuters]

A Chinese man was jailed after he apparently decided to get revenge for being swindled out of some money by threatening to blow up a train station.

[Reuters]

The first rule of breaking into someone else's car: Make sure it doesn't belong to a cop.

[AP/The Boston Channel]

A thief in Bahrain was caught stealing items from a lost and found — after stealing from it twice before.

[Gulf Daily News]

A drunk, Bible-wielding robber was arrested in Virginia after trying to break into two homes with a credit card.

[Evening Sun]

1. Don't hide "chicken pieces" in your jacket...

2. And then try to pick a fight with a World's Strongest Man finalist.

[Burnley Citizen]

One Texas burglar's strange haul: The window of a GNC store and a bunch of nutritional supplements, but no cash.

[Courier-Gazette]

A Canadian suspect was apparently betrayed by the trail of beer cans that led cops to where he was hiding "on top of a porch."

[Reuters]

Does this story sound like something straight out of "Austin Powers," or what? Chinese police cunningly disguised as tourists apprehended a man suspected of embezzling money — who was dressed as a monk.

[Reuters]