10. A Mafia Stronghold Over in Italy, Gianluca Cali
is sticking it to the mob in the strangest way possible. His story goes back to the end of 2010,
when he accidentally purchased a mafia stronghold that had belonged to the Cosa Nostra crime
family – a family he was all too familiar with. As the owner of a successful car dealership,
the mob had come to him asking for protection money. If he pays them, they protect his business
from… well, from them. But he refused. That was when they started torching cars on his lot.
While his cars were being set on fire, Gianluca put in a bid on a coastal villa. He had no idea
at the time that the villa used to belong to Michele “The Pope” Greco, the head of the family.
Michele was also the head of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. Mobsters had been plotting murders
in that house for nearly two decades. The villa had been abandoned for quite some time already,
but the authorities claimed it was still being used as a waypoint for smuggling drugs and weapons
and the occasional kidnap victim. Naturally, the mafia did not want
anyone to own the property. Members of the mafia reached out to Gianluca and threatened him that he
better give up the property – or else! But at the same time, the police told him that if he
backed out of the deal, he might get in trouble for abetting the mafia. So, he stuck it out.
The threats haven't ended. Gianluca sleeps with a pistol under his pillow and drives around in an
armored car because he's constantly in fear of his life. But at least he has the house.
He's even placed a sign on the gate that says, “In the house, the Mafia has lost.”
9. The Bad Bartender 27 year old Lindsey Glass was
working as a bartender when her life changed dramatically. After serving a drunk man an
excessive amount of alcohol, the individual left the bar and went on a shooting rampage,
murdering eight people including his ex-wife. Lindsey was then charged with the bizarre crime
of selling the guy too much liquor! This is a law in Texas under the Alcoholic Beverage Code
that says certain people cannot be given booze – meaning people who are too drunk already.
In Lindsey’s defense, she had just been doing her job. How was she supposed to know the drunk guy at
the bar was a total psycho? She couldn’t have known that he would go to his ex-wife’s house
where she and her friends were watching football and totally massacre them. The code explicitly
states that a person commits an offence if they sell alcohol to a habitual drunkard, somebody
who's already intoxicated, or an insane person. But here's why Lindsay is in so much trouble:
the killer had clearly been wasted. Eyewitnesses reported him knocking into furniture, staggering
around, and acting strange. Despite this, she kept serving him booze. It wasn't until he finally left
that she called the police to report his behavior. As he was collecting his bill, he had pulled out a
big knife and was spinning it on the bar, saying to himself that he had to go do some dirty work.
For her inadvertent part in getting the killer wasted enough to do his dirty work, Lindsey is now
facing a fine of up to $500 and a year in jail. 8. Accidental Drug Mule
In New Zealand, a perfectly ordinary beekeeper – a man named Roy Arbon who just so happens to be a
senior citizen, has just returned home after spending 18 months in jail for accidentally
smuggling cocaine into Australia. How exactly does a person accidentally smuggle cocaine?
Apparently, Roy picked up a random suitcase from a Nigerian while in Brazil and then brought it home
with him. That suitcase happened to contain 2.5 kilos of cocaine. He spent 18 months
behind bars waiting for his trial to start. Roy’s arrest came in 2016, when the Border
Patrol agents in Perth found all the cocaine in his suitcase. From the outside looking in,
Roy was clearly smuggling drugs. His defense was that a Nigerian man had given him the suitcase,
claiming it was full of clothes and that he needed help getting the clothes to family members.
Being the nice guy Roy is, he agreed to take the suitcase back home to New Zealand for him.
He even took all the clothes out of the suitcase and checked to make sure there was
nothing funny in it. What he didn't realize was that the cocaine was hidden inside the lining.
The cops being cops, didn’t listen to a word Roy said for 18 months while he rotted in jail
waiting for his trial. He definitely committed a crime, but he did it by accident.
He certainly didn't deserve to go to prison just because he’s a naive old man.
Luckily, when his case finally went to trial, the jury quickly found him not guilty and Roy was able
to return home immediately. He's now spending his days at the Grey River Mouth with a fishing rod,
trying to forget his absolute nightmare. 7. The Accidental Heist
Wes Lewison was recruited by his friend Greg Roberts to be an unwitting accessory to a heist.
Both men were caught by police in California, thrown into an Orange County jail cell,
and brought up on charges of bank robbery. The men were caught together on camera robbing a
bank in the middle of the day, before trying to make it to the Los Angeles International Airport.
But here's where the accident comes in. Wes Lewison had no idea they were committing a
bank robbery. He had known Greg Roberts for nearly two decades; the pair were friends.
In fact, Roberts had asked Lewison to fly to Munich in Germany to help him with a deal.
Roberts promised that all expenses would be paid. So,
Lewison picked Roberts up in his car and was going to drive them to the airport together.
But Roberts said they needed to stop at a nearby UPS store first to pick something up.
While Roberts ran into The UPS Store, Lewison waited in the car. What the man in the car
didn't realize was that The UPS Store was right next to a Bank of America – and rather than
going into the store, Roberts ran into the bank. Roberts then robbed the bank wearing
a sports coat and sunglasses before running back to the car. Then the two drove off to the airport.
Police caught up to them at the airport and they were arrested and hauled off to jail.
Lewison did eventually get released once the police realized he was an unwitting accomplice
who had no idea he had just robbed a bank – but the damage was already done. He's now having a
difficult time securing work because all his potential employers think he's a bank robber.
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6. A Suspicious Shooting Jasmine Hartin accidentally killed
a senior public official while on holiday in the Central American country of Belize.
She was discovered just after midnight, covered in blood, standing on an empty pier near the
beachfront property she was living in with the son of a billionaire. On the ground before her was the
dead body of Police Superintendent Henry Jemmott, one of the most respected cops in the whole
country. He had a gunshot wound in his head, with the bullet having been fired from his own gun.
This was a weird situation. Jasmine changed her story multiple times, first saying that
the guy was shot from a passing boat, then admitting she had fired the shot herself.
She claimed that Henry was her friend and that she had given him a shoulder massage on the pier just
before he taught her how to load and unload the magazine of his service pistol. During the lesson,
the gun went off and she shot the guy in his face. A lot of things here don't really add up. The part
about the shoulder massage is definitely strange, as is a midnight gun lesson on a deserted pier.
Plus, Henry had been shot behind his ear, execution style. But because Jasmine is a
Canadian socialite, associated with some of the most powerful billionaires in the world,
she’s been charged with manslaughter and is expected to get off without any jail
time – or having to reveal what kind of terrible thing she got herself mixed up in down there.
5. Accidentally Left in Jail When Farad Polk went to visit his son
at the Cook County Jail, he ended up getting himself locked in prison for over 30 hours.
It happened in July of 2014, when prison guards took him to a part of the Chicago jail that he
had never been to before. One of the employees directed him down a hallway, then told him to turn
right and go through a door. Once through that door, he was in a sealed room usually reserved
for super-max prisoners. The door shut behind him and he spent 32 hours trapped in a cold concrete
box. He had to use the bathroom on the floor and sleep curled in the corner with no food or water.
He only managed to be rescued after he broke a sprinkler head on the ceiling and was discovered
by firefighters with the Chicago Fire Department. Amazingly, he was still put in handcuffs and then
questioned for hours before anyone would even give him some food. And all this guy had been trying
to do was visit his incarcerated son. Cook County Jail spokeswoman Cara Smith told the press that it
was a bizarre series of circumstances that allowed this man to be locked in a room where he almost
died. In the end, the accidental incarceration earned Farad a settlement of $600,000.
4. A Free $10 Million A small business owner in New
Zealand applied for an overdraft of $100,000. He needed it to help finance the gas station he
was operating with his mother. The next day, he woke up to find that he had $10 million
deposited into his account. Since then, he's been sentenced to spend five years in prison.
So, how did he go from being a millionaire to a criminal? The issue is that when he received
the $10 million, it was clearly an accident. Hui Gao, the unexpected millionaire, fled New Zealand
to Hong Kong immediately after he realized he had all that money. He then transferred $6.78
million across a bunch of different accounts, in both his name and the names of his parents.
Thinking quickly, Hui Gao began laundering money through Chinese companies. See, he may have
accidentally been given the millions, but he knew that the money was not supposed to be for him.
Hui Gao spent years on the run, spending as much money as possible and really trying to take
advantage of the opportunity that was given to him. After all, it wasn't his fault that the money
ended up in his account. That is 100% on whoever deposited the money and put too many zeros. In
the end, he got busted trying to cross from Hong Kong into mainland China and is now facing five
years in prison. The bank was able to recover some of the money, but $3.8 million is still missing.
3. The Wrong Search Party A man in Turkey named Beyhan
Mutlu was drinking with a few friends on a Tuesday night when he got lost and wandered
into a nearby forest. His friends became worried when he never came out of the woods, and so they
quickly reported him missing to the authorities. As news of the missing villager spread, people
from different neighborhoods came to help with the search. Among them was the missing man himself,
who was so drunk that he didn’t realize he was part of his very own search party.
Amazingly, the search went on for hours. It wasn't until the guy started to sober up that he finally
asked someone near him, “Who are we searching for?” When they responded with his name, he was
embarrassed to admit that he wasn’t lost at all. In the end, the police had to escort the man back
to his home – and it then took hours for the rest of the search party to be notified that the guy
was never lost at all. While a relatively harmless accident, the rest of the town was understandably
upset with him for a very long time. 2. 3D Printer Trouble
A teenager has learned just how dangerous 3D printing can be. This amazing story comes from
Hopewell, Virginia. The teenager found the blueprints to create an actual gun using a
3D printer in his bedroom. The 16-year-old high school kid was simply being a kid,
thinking he had stumbled onto something awesome. But that all changed when he loaded the gun
and accidentally shot himself with it. He suffered only a small wound to his leg,
but now he might be charged with a crime! According to the Hopewell Police, the kid
had taken spare parts from various weapons and put them together to build the top part
of the gun. This means the slide, barrel, and firing pin mechanism. Then, the teen used his
3D printer to create a handle and a trigger mechanism. The gun went off while he was in
the middle of trying to put these pieces together. The police haven't said what kind of crime the kid
might be charged with, but they did say they’re suspicious that it could have been another kid
at school who convinced him to make a firearm for them. The teenager was just a nerd with a 3D
printer who may have been coerced by someone else to manufacture them a working weapon.
1. The Accidental Car Thief A woman in Canada rented a
black Nissan Sentra in June, in the small city of Cornwall with a population of about 47,000 people.
From the Randall office, the woman drove to the local Walmart. She did a bit of shopping and then
tracked her vehicle down in the parking lot. She got into the car, pushed the start button,
and drove away. Shortly after, the police received a report that a black Nissan Infiniti had been
stolen from the Walmart parking lot. For the following two weeks, the woman who had
rented the Nissan Sentra drove around in the stolen Nissan Infiniti completely oblivious
that it wasn't the same car she had rented. How does this happen? It all has to do with
the electronic key fobs. Her key fob worked with the other car as well, so she had no problem
opening the doors and starting the engine. This obviously seems like it shouldn't be possible,
but apparently it is. The woman only realized her mistake when she tried
to take the car back to the rental agency. The worker at the rental agency helped the
woman to retrace her steps, at which point they identified the Nissan Sentra still sitting in
the Walmart parking lot where it had been two weeks ago. The woman, embarrassed beyond belief,
called local police and explained the situation. In the end, everything was perfectly fine – the
woman wasn't charged with any crime and the owner of the car got their vehicle back.
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