Monday, February 26, 2007

Public Enemies # 1 & 2

From News of the Weird

Des Moines, Iowa, police detained James Clay in December after a convenience store clerk accused him of putting two hot dogs inside a bun and covering them with enough condiments that the clerk would think he was buying only one dog. [Des Moines Register, 12-29-07]

U.K. soccer player Glen Johnson, who reportedly earns the equivalent of about $58,000 a week, was arrested at a B&Q store in Dartford after a security guard said he spotted Johnson placing a high-priced toilet seat into the box of a lower-priced seat. [The Guardian (London), 1-19-07]


Martin Scorcese should do a movie on these guys.

2 comments:

RobertDWood said...

dude...
How do you fit two hot dogs in one bun?

How do you get arrested for that?!?!

Mercy Now said...

PB, putting two hot dogs so to get charged for one is stealing and so is price switching by putting higher priced product in lower end product's container.

Then there was the case of a high profile black White House staffer who was arrested for making false refunds. He was making $187k/yr but lived in a $900k house in DC. So it's not how much you earn but how much you spend.