In Other Dutch News...

[Bram]

I think I'll make this a recurring item. This is not unlike the oddball US news articles people on IRC tend to link to, except you can't read any of them, so I'll translate some excerpts.

In Berkel-Enschot, a 26 year old male was arrested for burglary. He was recognised by the Santa Claus hat he was wearing, which had been taken in the burglary.

A tragic accident killed one of the two beavers living in the Biesbosch national park. The unfortunate creature made a serious error in judgment when bringing down a tree. It fell on him, killing him.

The real Rita's Travel Agency is not amused by protest posters against Rita Verdonk, our very strict minister of intergration, who's currently repatriating illegal aliens. Translated, the poster says: 'Travelagency Rita - arrestation - deportation - cremation - adequate till the bitter end.'

[Limbo]

Don't forget the genius that stole a car the day after he got out of jail. Police recognized him driving a car, checked it, found out it was stolen, followed him and arrested him by following the tracks in the snow after he got out of his newly acquired car...

[dandan]

I liked that tale of the little boy who stuck his finger in a dyke...

[Gabethebabe]

Don't forget the genius that stole a car the day after he got out of jail. Police recognized him driving a car, checked it, found out it was stolen, followed him and arrested him by following the tracks in the snow after he got out of his newly acquired car...

Well, I remember another genious, must be family, who entered a clothes shop, took something to "try" it, took off the alarm gadget, put his long coat over his newly acquired clothes and walked out of the shop.

The alarm went off...

The guy had put the alarm gadget that he took off the robbed clothes into the pocked of his coat

This was in the newspaper some years ago. I nearly choked on my breakfast..

[Kowal]

A friend of mine told me a story about a guy who went to the Target he worked at and had gone in to the fitting rooms with a stack of expensive video games and movies.  He peeled off all the magnetic strips and was dumbfounded when the alarm still went off.  He didn't realize that he had walked on them to get out, and they stuck to his shoes.