5 – An Inflatable Gorilla,
- A giant 350-pound inflatable gorilla was stolen in broad daylight from a popular Californian car dealership.
- At first the owners of the dealership thought their great ape mascot had simply deflated, but when they went up on the roof to investigate they found it had vanished with a trace.
- What makes this great ape-napping so bizarre is that it was tied down with heavy cables and would’ve been way too heavy for one man to carry alone. Keep your eyes peeled, residents of California. This case is still unsolved.
4 – A Front Lawn,
- They say the grass is greener on the other side. Well, this thief was driven so mad by this expression that they literally ripped up their neighbour’s lawn and carried it away.
- The Thompson family had a thick beautiful lawn that was the talk of the whole street. When they went away for the weekend someone with a green thumb and a black heart swooped in to tear it up. When the family returned their lush grass had been replaced by ugly, brown dirt.
- Witnesses said they had seen a white truck and trailer parked at the house, but had just assumed it was a routine landscaping job arranged by the homeowner. The Thompsons hope the incident was actually an incompetent landscaping company with a wrong address, rather than a psycho who enjoys cutting other people’s grass.
3 – A Live Shark,
- Most people do everything in their power to avoid sharks, but in 2008 one brazen thief stole a live one from their neighbour’s shed. The shark was being kept for breeding purposes in a huge garden aquarium in Hampshire.
- Because the tank was so well-hidden, the thief would’ve needed a ladder and some strong helpers to pull off this shark-napping.
- The shark’s owner Peter Newman said he was particularly upset because this shark was a new mom that had just had six babies. So, nice going, thief! You’ve just made six baby sharks orphans. Have fun with that on your conscience!
2 – Manhole Covers,
- In 1990, Los Angeles experienced a crime wave that was strange even by LA standards. Over the course of a few months, three hundred manhole covers mysteriously disappeared all around the city.
- Nope, it wasn’t aliens; two thieves were taking the three-hundred-pound covers to sell for scrap metal. They were selling them off for just six dollars a cover, which is chump change considering how heavy these things are and how difficult they would’ve been to steal.
- In fact, the thieves could have made thirty times this amount just by recycling soft drink cans, which would’ve been easier and far better for the environment!
1 – Pets,
- It takes a special breed of asshole to steal a beloved family pet, but this sad crime is apparently on the rise. Basically opportunistic thieves break into other people’s homes to steal their pets. They then play on the owner’s emotional attachment by holding their pet for ransom.
- This practice is known as ‘dog flipping’, although there have also been cases of stolen cats, snakes, lizards and birds.
- In a sad recent case of dog flipping douchery, a thief stole a disabled black Labrador’s wheelchair and tried to make the owner pay to get it back. Fortunately when this story got out the internet raised enough money to buy the poor pooch some new wheels.
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