Thief stuffs 75 bottles of lotion into pants, and more

Thief stuffs 75 bottles of lotion into pants

A Massachusetts shoplifter was arrested with so much body lotion stuffed into his pants that officers couldn’t fit him into a police car. Chamil Guadarrama, 30, robbed a mall store of no fewer than 75 eight-ounce bottles of lotion, police said, stuffing them in pants that were tied with string at the ankles. When police tried to take him to the station, said a police spokesman, “they could not fit Mr. Guadarrama into the cruiser because his pants were bursting at the seams and he could not bend over.”

Bling Ring targeted Paris Hilton

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A member of the so-called Bling Ring, which burgled the Hollywood homes of celebrities, says the gang targeted heiress Paris Hilton because she was “dumb.” Sure enough, 18-year-old thief Nick Prugo tells Vanity Fair, not only did Hilton leave a key to her 7,000-square-foot home under the doormat, but it took her two months to even realize she’d been robbed of wads of crumpled cash and clothes. “I don’t know why anyone would listen to allegations made by a self-confessed thief,” said a spokesman for Hilton.

40-car train parks in front of woman's house

A freight train has been parked in front of a Florida woman’s house for six weeks, forcing her to crawl beneath a railroad car whenever she goes out. Aretha Brown, 66, says CSX Transportation refuses to move the 40-car train from the tracks. Crawling under the train is hard with a bag of groceries, she says, or when wearing her Sunday best en route to church. Brown also complains that “I can’t get anyone to come and make repairs because they won’t climb under the train.”