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Ouch Outrageous Obnoxious and Odd: Why Russians Dashboard Cams Catch So Many Funny Things: From Denny:  When you live in a police state country, stuffed to the gills with corrupt police and politicians, the average Russian takes measures to get the record straight.

Come on; it's common global knowledge the old Cold War intelligence community - the dreaded ruthless KGB - and the current Russian drug cartels basically run Russia, though the public is demanding serious reform. The average Russian knows...

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Cookie Monster Hunted By German Police: Alleged Golden Cookie Theft

source:  Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

From Denny:  Cookie Monster is in trouble - again!  His alleged cookie addiction could cost him some time behind bars if he doesn't get a lenient judge who can sympathize with his plight. Of course, an extortion letter to a German newspaper may not prove to be helpful.  German police are investigating.

You see, Cookie Monster has now made Bahlsen, a popular German cookie maker in Hanover, Germany, world famous with his alleged theft of their trademark iconic giant golden cookie sign, a gilded bronze sculpture.  It's been reported in America and across The Pond in the UK and Europe.

Cookie Monster allegedly claimed responsibility for the sneaky theft.  His demand letter?  CM allegedly wants Bahlsen to deliver free cookies to children's hospitals.  If they agree to do this good deed, CM is willing to return their giant golden cookie sign unharmed.  That sounds reasonable.

The ransom letter to Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) newspaper translated into English:  "I have the cookie!  And you want it."  The letter was a clever compilation of letters from magazine and newspaper cuttings.  OK, it was a standard issue extortion letter.  Cookie Monster was in a hurry and was running to meet the mail carrier before he missed the mail pick-up for the day.

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CM is allegedly quite specific as to the variety of cookies to be delivered to the children's hospitals.  He wants Bahlsen's Leibniz biscuits, preferably the whole milk variety.


Of course, the German authorities are trying to run down this cookie theft and whether it really was Cookie Monster.  You see, CM is claiming on Twitter he is not the true culprit.  Gasp!  Maybe CM was photo shopped?  Can it be true he is the victim of a vicious cookie scam?

The next day another letter was received at Bahlsen with the same demands.  Their legal department did not know if the letter was genuine.  The understandably anonymous spokeswoman commented, "If I could answer that question, I'd be smarter than the police [who are investigating authenticity].  The whole things is not a marketing campaign, our company, no way."

Police say witnesses saw two men with a ladder in the vicinity of the cookie sign earlier this month.  Could they have been hired by CM?  So far, CM isn't saying nor have the police found the alleged sign thieves.  Bahlsen is offering 1,000 Euros for information leading to the recovery of their iconic cookie sign.  The reward will be donated to the animal shelter Krähenwinkel in Langenhagen.

By the way, the cookie company has also pledged to give 52,000 packs of Leibniz biscuits to 52 social institutions - if the cookie sign is returned unharmed.

Check back with this blog often.  We will keep you apprised of this fluid situation as it develops.

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Funny Robber Dressed as Gumby Almost Arrested For The Fumbles



Sept. 5 - San Diego Police Dept./AP

From Denny:  Talk about the bumbling robber and hilariously funny. This silly guy goes into a San Diego 7-Eleven gas station store to rob them and the clerk refused to take him seriously. (Full story here.)

The Gumby Robber asked first for Marlboro cigarettes.  The clerk thought it was a prank and he had been punked. 

He didn't know who the 1950's Gumby cartoon character was and described Gumby to police later as "a weird greenish version of Spongebob Square Pants."

The clerk told the robber, "I don't have time for this.  I'm cleaning right now."

When challenged, the robber claimed he had a gun and proceeded to try and pull it out of his costume's pocket. Uh, yeah, well, because of that wardrobe malfunction it turns out that only 26 cents in change spilled out from that bad fumble.

The robber was so embarrassed he/she ran out of the store.  Didn't anyone teach this would-be robber at Crime School that a Gumby costume hand isn't as deft as a naked human hand?

What's great about this Gumby video version of the story is that the reporter recounts some other funny masked and costumed robbers caught on video.  Especially check out the guy with the thong underwear on his head as a mask.  Strange but true. ... And that's why they call them people...

Some days it has to be downright funny to be a police officer.  Can you imagine the stories they have to tell that could fill several books? 

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