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Ambitious Thieves Steal ... a Bridge

It's probably worth $100,000

(Newser) - If some guy in Pennsylvania says he's got a bridge to sell you, he may mean it literally. Thieves made off with an entire steel bridge in (very) rural Pennsylvania, reports WTAE as noted by Gizmodo . It measures, or measured, 50 feet by 20 feet, and would likely fetch...

Cops: Walmart Workers Steal $45K for Sex Change

Pair also hoped for a car

(Newser) - One wanted a Supra; the other, a sex change. So two Walmart workers allegedly teamed up to steal $45,000 from the Arizona store that employed them—money that would purchase surgery for one and a car for the other, they told police. One of the employees distracted the cashiers...

Man Charged With Stealing Ribs in His Pants ... Again

Apparently when Donald Noone gets drunk, he wants ribs

(Newser) - It’s weird enough that Donald Noone, 65, was arrested for attempting to smuggle a rack of ribs out of a grocery store in his pants yesterday. What’s weirder is that the central Pennsylvania man had already been arrested for attempting the same stunt in May, the Sentinel reports....

Meth Bust Turns Up Ripped Off Tombstones

Calif. tomb raiders puzzle cops

(Newser) - Police raiding a suspected meth lab 70 miles east of Los Angeles found the drugs and guns they were expecting, plus a surprise: Two dozen stolen granite tombstones. Police believe the home's residents ripped the tombstones from the ground in several local cemeteries, but they have no idea why....

Woman Faces 10 Years for Stealing $1.50 Can of Beer

Because of her history, Victoria Hill charged with felony burglary

(Newser) - Victoria Hill walked into an Idaho store, allegedly slipped one 24-ounce can of $1.50 Steel Reserve beer into her purse, and walked out ... and now she faces up to 10 years in jail. Hill, 35, was taken into custody Thursday and charged with felony burglary because, officers say, she...

'Extreme Couponing' Tied to Newspaper Thefts

In most recent incident, women allegedly stole 185 papers

(Newser) - Confused as to why a woman in Arkansas would, allegedly, steal 185 copies of a Sunday newspaper? You must not be an "extreme couponer." Poynter notes that TLC's Extreme Couponing, which debuted in April, has been linked to several reports of newspaper and coupon thefts in Idaho,...

Elderly Woman Dies From Heat After A/C Theft

79-year-old reported it missing two days before death

(Newser) - Somebody took a lot more than just an air conditioner from an elderly Texas woman. Two days after the 79-year-old reported her $2,500 unit stolen from the back of her home, she died of heat exhaustion, reports the Christian Post . It was the fourth time she had had her...

Airbnb User Trashes Home of Stranger

Company on defensive after honor system doesn't quite work

(Newser) - It's been quite the up-and-down week for Airbnb, a start-up that helps people rent their homes to vacationing strangers. All began great when the company secured a $1 billion valuation, notes the Wall Street Journal . Then a PR disaster: A San Francisco woman blogged about how she returned from...

Family Fights US Mint Over Rare Coins

1933 double-eagles were supposed to have been destroyed

(Newser) - A Philadelphia family is going head-to-head with the US government in a legal battle over ownership of 10 rare "double-eagle" coins worth $20 each when minted, and now valued in the millions. The coins were first produced by the US Mint in 1933 but never distributed. All but two...

Europe's 'First Travel Guide' Stolen

12-century Codex Calixtinus goes missing from Spanish cathedral

(Newser) - Modern technology didn't prevent the theft of a priceless 12th-century manuscript from a Spanish cathedral. The Codex Calixtinus—known as "Europe's oldest travel guide" because it contained a guide to walking routes for pilgrims—is believed to have been stolen by professional thieves from an safe in...

Mailman Blames Thievery on Rollercoaster, Dodges Jail

Disney's Thunder Mountain induced PTSD: lawyer

(Newser) - A British postman escaped a jail sentence by blaming his repeated mail theft on a rollercoaster. An August ride on Disney’s Thunder Mountain prompted flashbacks of a childhood schoolbus accident that killed eight and hospitalized the future mail carrier, his lawyer told the court. The flashbacks led to post-traumatic...

Hackers Grabbed Data on 360K Citibank Customers

Citi originally said 1% of 21M customers were affected

(Newser) - Citibank has finally 'fessed up that hackers managed to grab account data on a whopping 360,083 US credit card customers. That's nearly double what the company initially revealed when it said 1% were affected, which equals about 210,000 customers based on its 2010 annual report, reports...

Planeloads of Cash Sent to Iraq Possibly Stolen
Planeloads of Cash Sent
to Iraq Possibly Stolen
$6.6B missing
Jun 13, 2011 12:13 PM CDT

Planeloads of Cash Sent to Iraq Possibly Stolen

Missing $6.6B could be 'largest theft of funds in national history'

(Newser) - The US still doesn’t know what happened to billions in cash it sent to Iraq to pay for reconstruction. Some $6.6 billion of the $12 billion it delivered remains missing—and for the first time, some officials say it could have been stolen. It may be “the...

Man Busted After Swiped Laptop Keeps Taking His Photo

Theft-tracking software reunites owner with stolen MacBook

(Newser) - An Oakland man has been reunited with his stolen laptop thanks to an app that took pictures of the slack-jawed suspected thief and captured his email address. Joshua Kaufman started a blog— This Guy Has My MacBook —after police told him that they couldn't follow up the case...

Thieves Make Off With $1.6M in Vintage Wine

Thieves used a forklift to steal 400 cases of vintage vino

(Newser) - Call it theft by forklift: Scotland Yard is searching for $1.6 million worth of vintage wine stolen from an east London warehouse on Sunday. Thieves disabled alarms and security cameras before breaking into the warehouse and using a forklift to load up about 400 cases of the precious cargo,...

Thieves' Fave New Target: Human Hair

In recent rash of salon robberies, cash registers ignored

(Newser) - Across the country, beauty salons are hiring security guards and installing bulletproof glass, all to protect something even more valuable than the cash they have on hand: human hair. A rash of robberies—including one in which a beauty supply store owner was killed—has hit salons over the past...

Website Can Find Stolen Cameras

It uses data hidden in old photos to scan the web for new ones

(Newser) - The Consumerist takes note of a nifty website that might help you track down a stolen digital camera. The site, stolencamerafinder.com , works on a relatively simple formula. You drag and drop one of your old photos taken with the camera, and the site extracts signature data from it and...

Tomato Thieves Nab 6 Truckloads

'Smooth as silk' crooks created fake trucking firm

(Newser) - With produce prices soaring, thieves decided the time was ripe for a major operation—and they got away with $300,000 worth of Florida produce, including six truckloads of tomatoes, the New York Times reports. “I’ve never experienced people targeting produce loads before,” said one trucking broker....

Cops: 'Robin Hood' Robbed Chinese to Help Poor

NYC woman says she steals for the poor, but targets Chinese

(Newser) - New Yorker Ho Vasko says she went on a Chinatown pickpocketing spree to amass money to give to the poor. But prosecutors have a different explanation: She's a thief who hates Chinese people. The 67-year-old former restaurateur, who came to the US as a refugee from Vietnam, faces up to...

Judge to Lindsay Lohan: Plea Deal Means Jail

But she's expected to accept the deal anyway

(Newser) - Looks like Lindsay Lohan is going to wind up in jail after all, if even for a brief spell, reports TMZ . Prosecutors offered her a plea deal today—reportedly for six months behind bars—on charges that she stole a necklace . The judge made clear that if she accepts, she...

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