In Houston, Christopher Harding, 23, was sentenced to three years in prison for beating up his mother (who is disabled and requires a caretaker) and yanking out her dentures.
Gee,
you guys
really are
tough!
In Long Beach, Calif., police arrested two 19-year-old men, Kirk Lewis and Daniel Bard, and charged them as two of the three men they sought in the robbery of a 5-year-old girl.
Can you
spell
‘geek?’ 
A teenager was charged with attempting to rob the Fun 4 All comic-book store in Southfield, Mich., with a homemade bomb (that looked realistic but turned out to be harmless) and presenting a list of the specific collectors’ merchandise (not money) he wanted.
After the clerk balked at the demands, the robber relented, paid cash for a few of the items on the list, and left.
When arrested later, he called the incident a “social experiment.”
Jason may
need another
line of work
Jason Davis was sentenced in Burlington, Iowa, to five years in prison for one crime, but still pending is his August 2010 arrest for shoplifting at Westland Mall, which ended with Davis passed out after making a crime-scene boo-boo in his pants.
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