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• Are You Sure This Could Never Happen To You?

  Where do you find your babysitters?  Do you put up notices at colleges?  Ads on Craig's List? Maybe you think that's too risky.  You never know who could answer an ad like that.  Maybe you're like Britney Paines, who hired the daughter of a woman she knew from her Florida church to watch her 6-year-old son.  I mean, who's more trustworthy than someone you know from church? You get where this is going, right?   Read More... Posted Sep 27 2008, 09:30 AM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: babysitters, craig's list, robbery, Britney Paines, Janette Martinez, classified ads, Fernando Gaston

• Man Gets Six Years for Robbing Toddler's Piggy Bank

  Yes, times are indeed tough. But robbing a toddler’s piggy bank to make ends meet? Now that’s a new low. A Wisconsin man was convicted on Friday for stealing twenty dollars from a two-year-old’s piggy bank and was sentenced to...   Read More... Posted Sep 20 2008, 12:04 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: toddler, theft, odd news, piggy banks, robbery, prision

• The Great Lemonade Stand Robbery

  So, like, taking candy from a baby. That's generally considered a bad thing, right? How about stealing from a lemonade stand? Steven Tryon from Terre Haute, Indiana, did just that. Read More... Posted Jun 22 2008, 01:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: kids, news, parents, felony, crime, jail, police, cash, wtf, indiana, lemonade, theft, robbery, cops, Brett Singer, Steven Tryon, terre haute, Fred Erskine, Farrington Grove, ind, Dominique Morefield

• Girl Scout Robbed, Gets Crime Victim Badge

  I love those stories about heists and capers gone wrong because the thief tried to rob the 7-11 where everyone knew him or attempted to deposit a check with his home address while pointing a gun at the bank teller and demanding the contents of the safe. And this story--of a Girl Scout getting robbed--has elements of that. Now, who would rob a girl scout and take her cookie money? Isn't that right up there with punching a nun or something? I'll tell you who...  Read More... Posted Jan 17 2008, 06:39 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: crime, child labor, money, cookies, Girl Scouts, kids activities, jobs, sales, robbery, kid clubs, kid entrepreneurs