Suspect Claims Aliens Dropped Him At Burgled House

Charged with burgling a house in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2000, Brian Waddington came up with an ingenious alibi;

Aliens?

He said that the aliens must have picked him up 170 miles away in Davenport and dropped him off at the stranger's house. Although the case against Waddington appeared strong, detectives were taking no chances. One said: "I can assure you that if we do find any aliens, we'll drop the charges."

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Elderly Suspect Gives Officer A Nasty Suck

Trying to resist arrest after allegedly stealing a shirt from a shop in Braunschweig, Germany, in 2006, a 70 year old shoplifting suspect went to bite a police officer's arm.

Look! No teeth!

 When he bit the officer, he realized that he had left his false teeth at home. Instead, he was only able to leave a wet mark from his gums on the officer's arm. Nasty!

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Texan Prisoners Pretty In Pink

In a bid to deter repeat offenders, a Texan prison was painted pink and inmates were forced to wear pink jumpsuits and pink slippers.

The pink cells

Pretty in pink

Sheriff Clint Low reported that re-offending was down by 70 percent at Mason County Jail since he introduced the color change. This is reportedly because no prisoner wants to be seen in pink.

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Underpants Proof Of Mistaken Identity

After Leonard Hodge, of Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested in 1996 for failing to carry a driving license, police officers also found cocaine in his underwear during a routine search.

Cocaine stuffed in underwear 

Knowing that the offense of carrying or having cocaine in his possession would be heavy, in his defense, Hodge claimed that the underpants he was wearing was not his.

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Breathing Corpse Alerts Police

A burglar who broke into a funeral home in the Spanish town of Burjassot tried to fool police by playing dead.

Burglar broke into funeral home

The only thing that gave away his tactics were two vital elements. First, he was wearing scruffy clothes instead of the proper or traditional funeral or deceased clothing and secondly, he was breathing heavily.

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Wife Suicide Attempt Killed Husband

After discovering that her husband had been unfaithful, Czech housewife Vera Czermak decided to end her life by throwing herself from her third floor balcony in Prague.

Jumped from the third floor

When she jumped from the third floor balcony, by great chance she landed on her husband who was walking directly below. The blow instantly killed him while the suicidal wife escaped unhurt.

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Man Drops Dead in Own Grave

63 year-old Giovanni Greco was so keen to ensure that his future resting place would be a perfect fit that he often came and visited the builders constructing the tomb according to his exact specifications.

Grave under construction

One day in 2002, he was making his customary visit to the construction site at Lascari, Sicily, when he climbed a ladder to get a better view of the work in progress. Alas, he slipped, fell, and hit his head on a marble step and dropped dead into his own grave.

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