Curses, Foiled Again David Sherman, 49, stole a DVD player from a Wal-Mart store in Gretna, Neb., but didn’t get far because 24 Sarpy County sheriff’s deputies were in the store f

Curses, Foiled Again After two men stole DVDs and computer games from a Target store in Madison, Wis., one of them accidentally pocket-dialed 911 with his cellphone. A dispatcher listened for 5

Curses, Foiled Again David Foley intended framing his landlord in Whitefish Bay, Wis., by sending a Milwaukee television station a CD containing child pornography. The station turned the disk ove

 Curses, Foiled Again John K. Rosenbaum, 22, drove from Jacksonville, Fla., to Kingsland, Ga., to illegally purchase a black mamba snake. During the transaction, the venomous snake bit him,

Two thieves stole $500 worth of Christmas decorations from a lawn in Sweetwater, Fla., that included a Mickey Mouse on a horse, hugging penguins, Snoopy on a doghouse and Santa on a sled.

A thief who tried to steal a Corvette in Prince George, British Columbia, stalled the car and then ran down the battery trying to restart it.

Curses, Foiled Again Juan Aguirre, 21, broke into Cirilla’s sex shop in Salina, Kan., and made off with six X-rated DVDs — or so he believed.

Curses, Foiled Again After crashing his car into a utility pole in Albany, N.Y., Miguel Medina fled, according to police, who had already been alerted because the vehicle was equipped with OnStar

When a man entered a bank in New Castle, Del., and handed a teller a hold-up note, she told him she couldn’t make out what it said and asked him to rewrite it.

Curses, Foiled Again A witness observed a boy who appeared to be breaking into a pickup truck in Port Charlotte, Fla. When confronted, the suspect fled, but as he did, the witness told Charlotte