Four Men Stole a Backhoe From a Nearby Beach, Used It to Rip a Cash Machine Out of Its Mounting in Tobago — and Then Could Not Get the ATM Onto Their Truck. One of Them Was Wearing a Full Batman Costume. They Abandoned the Machine on the Sidewalk and Fled Empty-Handed.

Four men devised a plan to steal a cash machine using heavy construction equipment they could not operate, while one of them dressed as a superhero whose defining attribute is competence — and the machine won.

Source: Associated Press

A Florida Man Flipped On Emergency Lights in His SUV to Conduct a Fake Traffic Stop — and the Car He Chose to Pull Over Was an Unmarked Hillsborough County Sheriff's Vehicle

Nadi Jabar, 46, of Thonotosassa, installed an illegal two-foot light bar in his Chevrolet Suburban, chose US Highway 301 as his beat, selected one car from among the many available to him that day, and selected the one belonging to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office — a selection that compressed the entire gap between his intentions and his arrest to a matter of seconds.

Source: Road & Track

A San Antonio Social-Media Personality — Known From Jewelers' Ads as 'Big Kenzo' — Was Arrested for Road Rage and a Police Chase, Then Bonded Out and Posted an Instagram Video Taunting That No One Was 'Stopping Nothing'

Heavenly Rodriguez, 21, who built a public profile specifically around being recognizable, allegedly fled deputies after a road-rage incident involving a handgun, crashed into another car, was arrested, bonded out, and then used her verified public platform to announce that proceedings were going well — charges pending: evading arrest with a vehicle, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and failure to identify as a fugitive.

Source: San Antonio Express-News

A Culver City Man Was Identified as the Suspect in a Bank Robbery, Got Arrested Ten Days Later After Allegedly Robbing a Second Bank in West Hollywood — and Then Confessed to the First Robbery During the Interview

Shawn Greene, 35, was identified by Culver City detectives after the first robbery, waited ten days, committed a second robbery in a neighboring jurisdiction, was arrested, and then, when detectives arrived to interview him, resolved their open case for them without being asked — a level of helpfulness that should count for something at sentencing, though it is unlikely to count for much.

Source: Culver City Crossroads

A Derby Woman Who Claimed £14,000 in Disability Benefits for Difficulty Moving and Managing Daily Tasks Had Spent More Than 1,000 Days Living in Greece — Where She Was Publicly Advertising Herself as a Childminder on Facebook

Dawna Bird, 66, told the Department for Work and Pensions that she required Personal Independence Payments for limited mobility and daily-living difficulties, omitted to mention the required disclosure of any absence exceeding 28 days, lived abroad for over 1,000 of those days, and elected to document her capacity and whereabouts in a public Facebook childminding advertisement — the judge noted the evidence was 'pretty overwhelming,' which is one way to put it.

Source: Manchester Evening News

A Liverpool Man Summoned for Two Weeks of Jury Duty Showed Up on Day One, Went to Lunch, and Never Came Back — and Then Did Not Appear at His Own Contempt Hearing Either

John Littler, 32, apparently concluded that a jury summons was the sort of obligation one could simply decline to honour by not answering calls, voicemails, emails, or letters from the court — and then tested this theory against the specific institution empowered to fine and jail him for exactly that, which fined and jailed him for exactly that, in his absence, having run out of patience with his absence.

Source: Liverpool Echo

A Liverpool Drug Trafficker Was Connected to a Heroin Stash and a Converted Pistol Seized at Two Separate Addresses — in Both Cases by DNA He Left on Objects He Handled and Abandoned at the Scene

David McDonald left his DNA at the first address on a converted blank-firing pistol and at the second address on a can of Fanta — an inventory of personal effects that, taken together, constituted a guided tour of his operations for investigators, delivered at his own expense.

Source: Liverpool Echo

A Singapore Woman Sold More Than 700 Counterfeit Luxury Bags, Wallets, Watches, and Sunglasses — Over TikTok, Under Her Own Account, Until Police Raided the Location and Seized Everything

A 41-year-old woman in Singapore accumulated more than 700 trademark-infringing luxury items worth an estimated S$34,000 on the street, chose to liquidate them via a social media platform whose core feature is public discoverability, and operated under her own account until police found the account, found her, and found everything.

Source: Singapore Police Force

A Texas Justice of the Peace Had Four Citizens — Who Showed Up in Answer to a Jury Summons — Arrested and Jailed, Using Her Own Personal Definition of Residency Instead of the Legal One. The County's Total Population Is 57.

A judge in America's least-populated county, wielding power over a jury pool drawn from a town of fifteen people, arrested four of those people for obeying the summons she issued, on the basis of a residency standard she invented herself — which is a form of jurisprudence that would require the county's entire adult population to be her bailiff in order to make the contempt charge stick.

Source: Texas Scorecard — Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct, public reprimand June 3, 2026

Emily Blunt, Worth an Estimated $80 Million, Advised Women Who Hate Their Jobs to Simply Quit and Accept 'No Money' — From a Press Tour for Her Second Devil Wears Prada Film

A woman who has never in her professional life needed to weigh the option of 'no money' against its alternatives offered the option of 'no money' as career guidance, during a press tour for a film about the fashion industry, and the press covered this as a 'tip' rather than a confession about the distance between her frame of reference and a working person's.

Source: Page Six / Yahoo Entertainment

American College Students, When Asked Extremely Basic Questions About Their Own Country, Demonstrate With Remarkable Consistency That the Degree and the Knowledge Are Billed Separately

Source: KeroNgb (YouTube street interviews)