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A person asked me one day, “Is not such-and-such a person a Baptist?” I replied, “I do not know him.” He said, “He is a fellow who says a very long grace before his dinner, and he goes to such-and-such a chapel.” “Well,” I answered, “If he goes there, he certainly attends a Baptist chapel.” Then he said,…

Italian police investigating drug crimes discovered two Van Gogh paintings that vanished in a 2002 robbery. The paintings were found in a farmhouse where police seized over $22 million worth of assets. The director of the Van Gogh Museum Axel Rueger said investigators had contacted them so that art experts…

Devonte Levoris Pace and two accomplices allegedly staged a holdup outside a bar and robbed the men in a car of about $600. Police promptly arrested Pace without any problem of identification. It seems Pace dropped his own wallet, with his ID in it, in the process of committing the robbery. When we think…

Twenty-seven years after he stole a Color TV from the Norwalk, Connecticut Jewish Center, Randy Iannacone turned himself in to the police, who booked him for the crime. Though the Jewish Center closed in April of 1989, the 60-year old man still is working to make things right. –Jim L. Wilson http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-turns-self-stealing-tv-1989-n555411…

Steven Felton, 34, was arrested for 10 armed robberies. Multiple security cameras caught his bare face with him holding a pellet gun and demanding money. In his defense he claimed his “evil twin” had carried out the robberies. Neither the jury nor the judge believed him and he was convicted by the jury…

When Greg Carlson’s Las Vegas taco shop was burglarized, he deiced to turn the footage into a television commercial. Security footage shows three men breaking into the closed restaurant and ransacking it, looking for cash or other valuables. Carlson was alerted by an alarm system, and found the glass…

Police in Northern California say a man robbed a local gas station and then returned a few hours later to return the money he had taken. Authorities say 23-year-old Cyle Abbott Jr. told officers that he took the money because he wanted to leave town and make a fresh start. Later, when he thought about…

After sealing thousands of dollars of electronic equipment from the Mount Olive AME Zion Church in Waterbury, Connecticut, the thief left behind a note that said, "Pray 4 Me!! Sorry brothers. Save me." Members of the church responded by praying for him. —Jim L. Wilson https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/church-burglar-leaves-apology-note-theft-equipment-57311451…

University of Rochester quarterback Daniel Bronson’s biggest play was not on the football field. The 21-year-old junior was leaving a restaurant when he saw a man run past a 73-year-old woman and snatch her purse as he passed. Bronson began chasing the man, who dropped the purse but keep running. Bronson…

Tequila Isaacson is an Idaho woman who was traveling on a Washington State highway. She was at a rest stop when a Pickup truck in the parking lot next to a coffee shop caught on fire. While the boy’s parents worked to get him out and another man called 911, Isaacson began searching for a fire extinguisher.…

While an Albuquerque TV news crew was preparing a story about crime in the city, a thief drove off in the station’s SUV. Michelle Donaldson, News director for KOB television said the crew was reporting on recent concerns about crime and safety, and one of the issues in the report was an increase in auto…

The courts convicted Cornealious Anderson of armed robbery and sentenced him to thirteen years in prison in 2000. The day he was sentenced, Anderson was told to wait for instructions on when and where to report to prison. When those instructions never came, Anderson went on with life and actually turned…

Police in New Jersey are looking for a man who tried to steal $2 worth of gasoline. Police say the suspect was carrying a gas can when he approached an attendant outside a gas station, pulled a knife and demanded $2 in gasoline. When the attendant refused to comply, the suspect ran away. Authorities…

Larry Ripple stole $3000 from a Kansas City bank at gunpoint. Then he sat down in the bank lobby, told a security guard, “I am the guy you are looking for,” and waited for police. He then confessed to police that he had earlier argued with his wife and told her “he’d rather be in jail than at home.”…

Minnesota police say they were able to arrest a man after he committed a dumb act that led them right to him. They say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig allegedly broke into a home and stole several things. Wig might have gotten away with the crime if he had not used a computer in the house to log on to Facebook,…

James Kelly is serving a 10-year sentence for using his own ID to steal from another Verizon customer with the same name as his. He is seeking $72 million in damages from Verizon because they didn’t prevent the theft. In the garden Adam blamed God for giving him Eve, Eve blamed the serpent. James Kelly…

Footage from surveillance cameras from two businesses located near each other show a man who tied to rob both of them came up empty handed. The suspect, a Hispanic man in his twenties, first walked into a convenience store and demanded money. He was holding a potato disguised as a gun. The thief fled…

Authorities in the Chicago area say they are still searching for a man who allegedly took $75 out of a photo booth at an amusement park. The booth is designed to take pictures of anyone who tries to manipulate or damage it in any way. It snapped several pictures of the suspect which were left behind…

An Ohio man chose to wear a sign proclaiming that he was a thief, rather than go to jail for his crime. Greg Davenport pleaded no-contest to theft charges for shoplifting at a local Wal-Mart. A municipal judge found Davenport guilty and gave him the option of wearing the sign outside the store eight…

Police in Connecticut say they were surprised when a man charged with stealing a television set twenty-seven years ago flew all the way from Florida and turned himself in. When 60-year-old Randy Iannacone heard that there was a warrant for his arrest, he immediately turned himself in. At the police station,…

A borrower returned a book to the library in Holland that he checked out 49 years earlier. The borrower, who was not identified, said he checked out a book about World War II from the library in 1967. He said, he had put it in a trunk and had only recently rediscovered it. The Library Director Diane…

Thirty years later, a guilty conscience led someone to return a large metal sign to the police department in New Smyrna Beach Florida. Officials say the sign reading, “New Smyrna Beach says No to Drugs,” came in the mail, along with a $50 money order and a note asking officials to use the money to reinstall…

One of the clearest commands in scripture, coming straight out of the Ten Commandments, is the command against stealing. You may it interesting, or perhaps unnerving, to know that 1 in 6 teens and young adults admit to stealing something in the past year. These young people were involved in a survey…

After an attack of conscious, Kent Clemens called 911 asking them to send the police over to his house and arrest him "for making a mistake." That was invitation the authorities couldn’t refuse. What was Clemens’s mistake? He had robbed a bank in Williston, North Dakota, telling the teller that he wanted…

A Pennsylvania man pled guilty to burglarizing his neighbor’s home by cutting a hole in the wall between his basement and the neighbor’s. The man’s lawyer, Anthony Rybak told a judge that he did not see how anyone could think he would get away with such a crime. He said the obvious lack of wisdom exhibited…