Apparently it didn't look *enough* like a gun

A man tried to rob a gas station and a dry cleaner using “a knife and a potato that apparently looked like a handgun.” All he got was a fake $20 bill.

  

Crime is Expensive

Researchers have put a price tag on crime. The have added up the costs to society involved in catching, prosecuting and incarcerating criminals. They also added in the lost productivity of both criminal and victim. So how much does crime pay cost?

• Murder: $24 million
• Rape: $448,532
• Armed robbery:$335,733
• Simple burglary: $41,288

We've had a lot of posts about crime lately. It must be the bad economy.

In these tough economic times, even crime doesn't pay what it used to

A man who robbed a Wendy's restaurant called the restaurant twice to complain about the amount of money in the cash drawer that he stole. He reportedly said that "next time there better be more than $586."

The glass ceiling (windshield) in the auto theft industry: not an Equal Opportunity Employer

Car thievery is an industry like any other, with mentors ("technical advisors") who train new thiefs in the art of hot-wiring. And, like so many industries, women are not given equal access to the career ladder. Researchers have found that women are equally adept at actually stealing the cars, but their careers are stunted by a lack of access to social networks of criminals and chop shops. Without a lucrative way to dispose of the merchandise, the car theft business doesn't provide an acceptable ROI.