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If there is one thing we learned from Robin Hood, Hudson Hawk and that guy who gives Indy his hat in the beginning of The Last Crusade, it's that sometimes even the most hardened lawbreaker will defy all expectations and do the right thing to help another human being in need.
7. Carjacker Defeats Terrorism
Normally, someone stealing a big red van parked out in front of some brownstones in a decent part of Brooklyn isn't considered too out of the ordinary. And if the countless hours we've spent watching Steven Seagal movies poorly edited for TNT have taught us nothing else, it is that 99 percent of the time that stolen van will find its way into some dockside warehouse to be stripped down by a bunch of dudes wearing denim vests and bandannas.
But on July 3, 2008, this criminal act was just a prelude to heroism.
As he drove his newly acquired vehicle from the scene of the crime, the carjacker noticed something strange the entire back of the van was stuffed to the brim with explosives and accelerant, a rat's nest of gas cans, wires and switches. This is the point at which your average person would jump out of the car like Charlie Sheen in Navy Seals without a second thought. The most civic minded of us might call the police, once we were well out of the blast radius.
For most of us, the 911 call would go something like: "Holy balls! Holy balls! Holy fuck fuck BALLS!"
But this unnamed auto thief couldn't bring himself to flee the vehicle he was in the middle of a neighborhood, surrounded by buildings filled with hundreds (or maybe thousands) of innocent people. Instead he drove the bomb rigged van some 15 blocks until he found a deserted stretch of waterfront where he could park it. Then he called a police officer he knew from past run ins with the law and told him about the bomb.
Because the first thing cops do after arresting you is exchange phone numbers.
Police officials praised the carjacker, and no charges were filed for the break in, teaching us all the powerful lesson that you can steal from anyone you want, as long as they're fucking terrorists.
6. Burglars Steal Laptop, Stop Pedophile
Laptops and smartphones have to be two of the most stolen devices in the world easy to carry, easy to convert into money (or drugs!). They really are a godsend for anyone interested in a future in the criminal arts.
So when two crooks broke into Richard Coverdale's Yorkshire home in August of 2009, they went right for the most obvious target his laptop.
Curiously, they left his treasure dungeon untouched. That is, until the thieves a 20 year old woman and a 38 year old man turned themselves in. As it happens, Mr. Coverdale's laptop was a cornucopia of child pornography.
"Boy, I hope this doesn't backfire somehow."
The burglars had found over 70 disturbing and thunderously illegal images on the computer, but that wasn't all they also found evidence that Coverdale had been impersonating a young boy in order to trick a 14 year old girl into video chatting with him, at which point he exposed himself on camera.
The thieves, having no way to tip the cops off to the abuse without admitting that they had stolen the laptop ("Yeah, we were just walking past his house when this laptop came flying out of the window!"), did the right thing anyway and called the cops.
"That's right, officer. New Era Outlet Some guys broke into our house and gave us a stolen laptop filled with child pornography. Do you buy that?"
The pedophile got three and a half years in jail. The robbers received 12 month community service sentences in light of their good deed, but to be entirely honest, busting a pedophile is a much better service to the community than painting curbs or picking trash off the median.
5. Home Invader Saves His Victim
China is pretty close to the top of our list of worst places to run afoul of the law, thanks to such atrocities as the massacre at Tiananmen Square and Richard Gere's performance in Red Corner.
"And 20 extra years for Dr. T and the Women! Bailiff, take him away!"
These were certainly on the mind of one miscreant as he broke into a home in Lanzhou, a city in northwest China, in May of 2010. The home invader was slinking about, presumably throwing valuables into a giant sack with a dollar sign on it, when he heard the sound of glass breaking. He ran into the bedroom to investigate and found the house's owner, an elderly woman, lying on the floor in the advanced stages of having her shit ruined.
She'd been woken by severe chest pains, and in her struggle to get to her medicine she had accidentally knocked it off the bedside table, creating a unique opportunity for the burglar to steal the everloving fuck out of everything in her house.
However, the thief instead opted to help the old woman with her pills. Eventually, she recovered enough to ask what the hell he was doing in her room in the middle of the night. Keeping with his bizarre noble streak, he answered honestly, and then tore ass out of there like a flaming housecat.
4. Modern Robin Hood Steals From Rich, Gives to Hobos
The impulse to take from The Man is a strong one, and it rose up most recently in the heart of an Italian man named Pasquale D'Angelo, known about town as an altruist and a full time charity worker. However, the death of his mother pushed him a little over the edge, and he decided on a way to benefit his fellow man that would rock infinitely more tits than any local charity.
"Would you like to help the unfortunate?"
Armed with a toy gun and a freshly empty space that once held the fucks he gave, Pasquale held up the Cassa di Risparmio di Forli for 1,900 lira and then immediately ran outside and started handing the money out to homeless people hanging around nearby. When the police somehow failed to catch him, Pasquale became even more emboldened and stuck up the Banca Nazionale di Lavoro in Rimini, this time making it out with 3,500 euros. Cash in hand, Pasquale made a beeline for the nearest bar and started tossing out euros to the poorest drunks he could find.http://www.hatstips.com
