Thief forgets cell phone in burgled home
Police in Maryland have arrested a man who allegedly left his cell phone charging in a house he’d just burgled. Police say they tracked down Cody Wilkins, 25, after finding his phone, which he had plugged in to recharge while plundering the house of jewelry and electronics. They believe Wilkins was responsible for a string of at least 50 burglaries. Sometimes, said Detective Kye Pak, cases are solved only because of “sheer stupidity by the suspects.”
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Only blondes may apply
A Lithuanian company building a luxury resort in the Maldives is facing local labor-law trouble over its plans to staff the resort with attractive blonde women. The resort, due to open in 2015 on a man-made island shaped like a high-heeled shoe, was hoping to lure wealthy men with its all-blonde staff. But Maldives law requires that half of the staff be hired from the local, not-very-blonde population. Resort officials said the law will be followed, and that “staff who are not blonde will wear a blonde wig.”