Guns 4 Hire
Arizona
A company called "Guns For Hire" stages gunfights for Western movies and other events. One day, a middle-aged
woman called to inquire if they could kill her husband. She was sentenced to four and a half years.
Cub Tickets
Chicago, IL
Chicago were trying to track down several people without standing arrest warrants when they though of a brilliant
idea. They sent all the criminals free tickets to a Cubs game. When the people arrived, they were promptly arrested.
Magic Belts
Ivory Coast
A colonel in the Ivory Coast army bought a magic belt that would supposedly protect him from the bullets. The colonel
had the son of the belt's maker fire several bullets at him to test the belt and he died instantly. The murderer
is still on the run.
Fingers
Jacksonville, Florida
Two Florida brothers convinced a dentist into letting them chop off his finger. They would claim it was an accident
and the three would split the insurance money. The dentist at first agreed, but quickly changed his mind. The brothers
became infuriated, held the dentist down and forcibly cut his index finger off. The dentist could no longer practice
and collected over one million dollars. When the brothers tried to extort money from the dentist, he reported them
to the FBI. They were promptly arrested.
Wrong House
St. Paul, Minnesota
Two masked gunmen burst into a house wearing T-shirts marked police. They tied up a woman and two of her children
with duct tape. They demanded to know where a "Joe" was. When the woman said he did live there, the two
said "Oops we have the wrong house." In the back of the house, the woman's other child had called the
police. When the men walked outside, they were quickly arrested.