QUIRKY WORLD ... Not the sharpest tool in the box... thief’s CCTV fury
Roofer Nicholas Allegretto was filmed by security cameras installed in the Mackays hardware store in Cambridge after stealing an industrial magnet.
The store put up his picture with his face obscured and the image was later posted on Facebook and printed in the Cambridge News newspaper.
Instead of lying low, the 23-year-old went to the city’s Parkside police station, angry that the picture had been published. He was arrested and prosecuted.
Shop owner Neil Mackay said: “I suppose you could say he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the box.” Mackay said he had originally put up the picture, taken on one of the store’s 30 cameras, to warn the thief against striking again and so that staff knew what he looked like.
Two lines were put over Allegretto’s face, meaning he could not easily be identified.
“I was so frustrated that I had to do something to at least make thieves aware we take it seriously,” Mackay added. “I didn’t really expect him to be caught so I couldn’t believe it when I heard he had rocked up at the police station and identified himself — you’ve got to laugh really.”
A Melbourne council will “edit” a mural on a building that depicts people having sex in a giant hamburger.
The mural, commissioned by a Brunswick business owner, contains bodies in various sexual positions, entangled with lettuce, cheese and tomato in a sesame seed bun.
“Art is certainly in the eye of the beholder, but our arts and culture team does think there are a couple of parts of the image that might have crossed a few lines,” Moreland Mayor Meghan Hopper said.
The council has asked street artist Makatron to edit a few parts of the painting, but says it wants “to keep the public artwork intact”.
A lorry carrying honey bees overturned on a busy Oklahoma interstate, sending a swarm of insects onto the motorway that was visible half a mile away.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the accident on Interstate 35 happened near Pauls Valley, about 90kms south of Oklahoma City.
Lawton television station KSWO reports that witnesses reported seeing the bees from about half a mile away. The station says the lorry’s driver was treated and released from hospital with minor injuries.
Police are seeking a robbery suspect with nice nails.
They say a man got a manicure at a nail salon on West Rockland Street in Philadelphia and then robbed the place at gunpoint.
Surveillance video shows the suspect grabbing money from one worker and then taking more cash from the till. No one was injured.
Police in the Philadelphia suburbs say the Man of Steal was undone by his Superman T-shirt.
The Philadelphia Daily News reports Kyree Henneghan, 18, was charged with two Upper Darby burglaries that police linked him to because of the shirt.
Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says a man wearing a T-shirt with the Superman shield broke into one home on September 24 and a second on Tuesday.
In that heist, the homeowner walked in and Henneghan bolted with a laptop computer.
Henneghen made a not-so-speedy getaway on his BMX bike and police found him a short time later — still wearing the Superman shirt — trying to sell the computer to men in a car.
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