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Back to Crazy Crimes; Romans 1:20

Back to Crazy Crimes is this week’s Mystery Question, mainly because I was finding the scams too depressing! And I’m telling you, making up a crime to match the ones I found wasn’t easy…

But first the photo and verse. I stepped outside about two weeks ago late in the afternoon and caught this scene with my new-to-me camera. I thought the first part of Romans 1:20 went well with it.

Now for the November 16th Mystery Question: Worst Scams of 2021. As usual, three are true and I’ve made up one. It’s your job– if you choose to accept the challenge–to figure out which one I made up.
  1. A trader contacted a man over the phone and offered guaranteed returns on investments. After investing a few thousand with them, his profits soared. However, when he tried to withdraw money, he was told he had to pay additional fees. Suddenly his stocks fell and by the time he got his money out, he was reduced to three percent of his initial investment.
  2. When an older woman answered the phone, the caller identified himself as a tax investigator and informed her she owed an additional five hundred dollars. When she questioned him, he told her the police were on the way to arrest her, and she gave him her account number and permission to withdraw the five hundred. Unfortunately, he withdrew five thousand instead.
  3. A woman attempted to purchase tickets to a rock concert, but when she tried to use Paypal to pay for them, he insisted that she pay using gift cards. As soon as he had the information from the gift cards, he blocked her from Facebook and deleted his account.
  4. The website advertised cheap barbeque. Payment was via credit card with a 5% discount for direct transfer. Then the buyer received an email saying that due to logistic emails the order was canceled and being refunded. Not surprisingly, the company never refunded the money.

And the answer is…#4…and that’s the last of the scams. I prefer the funnier dumb criminal stories. 🙂

Now for this week’s Mystery Question: Back to Crazy Crimes. As usual, three are true and I’ve made up one. It’s your job to figure out which one I made up.
  1. One homeowner took the warning to be on the lookout for porch thieves a step further. His video showed a man wearing sunglasses approaching the porch then snatching the package and running, never noticing the string attached to the package. Ten steps from the house, the package exploded with confetti. The homeowner called police, reported the attempted burglary, and instructed them to look for a man covered with confetti. The police found him three blocks from the homeowner’s house trying to get the confetti out of his hair.
  2. Two men visiting Yellowstone in a remote location decided to cook chicken for supper. The problem? A camper reported observing them put two whole raw chickens into a burlap sack and lower them into the steaming water at Shoshone Geyser Basin. The park ranger arrived and arrested the two. No report of what happened to the chicken dinner.
  3. A pair of dumb bunnies figured Thanksgiving was a good time to rob a local business area. No one would notice two vans parked outside a wine and spirits store that housed vintage wine. The men plotted out the steps in a journal. On the big day, they carefully parked vans to block exterior surveillance cams. Inside the building, they spray-painted cameras and went to work. Unfortunately, they’d parked the vans in a tow-away zone. When they came out of the building with over $600,000 in vintage wine and no vans in sight.  The now unblocked security cameras caught them loading the wine in an Escalade. Police traced the vehicle to one of the men where they found the wine and the journal detailing all the steps of the heist.
  4.  A judge sentenced a woman to 7 1/2 years in jail in Australia, after she traveled with various cocaine-stuffed items, including a pair of high heels. She pleaded guilty to the illegal import of cocaine, but she told authorities an online suiter tricked her. However, a video of her as her shoes were being screened suggests otherwise. She was overheard on the video asking, “How much did they find in the shoes?” Then she quickly said, “Sorry, just talking to myself.” Unfortunately for her, it was too late.
Okay, Super Sleuths, which crazy crime did I make up? Leave your answer in the comments and I’ll enter you in a November drawing for a $10 gift card!
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  3. Tim Johnson

    Love the photo and matching verse, Pat. You’re getting pretty handy with that new camera!

    Let’s see dumb bunnies for Thanksgiving… yup, they should have stuck to eating turkey. I think you made up #3.

    Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

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      Patricia Bradley

      Thanks, Tim about the photo and verse. I’m going out to my toolshed later today and see if I can find my tripod! As for the Mystery Question, we’ll see if #3 is the one I made up next week…

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  5. Barbara Diggs

    Love the pic and verse, especially the part of the verse that reads, “ His eternal power and divine nature has been clearly seen.” I kind of want to hold my breath seeing that big fireball in the sky. God is so big!
    Gosh these crimes are challenging. I first thought #4, but I am going with #3. Where’d they get the Escalade?

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  13. Edward Arrington

    I understand switching back to crimes, although I’m not sure they are any more “uplifting” than the scams. LOL! I’m choosing #2. It’s been over 60 years since I visited Yellowstone with my family. The one thing that has stuck in my mind all these years was the stench of the sulfur that seemed to permeate the park. I can’t imagine eating chicken that has been cooked in a geyser. Maybe they figured the extreme heat would kill anything unfit for human consumption.

    Enjoyed your picture and the verse. Even if I seldom get the correct answer, it’s worth clicking over here to see the pictures and read the Scripture verses.

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      Patricia Bradley

      Thanks, Edward! The difference between scams and crimes is that with the funny crimes, the criminal (usually) gets his comeuppance! And sometimes they are funny. lol By the way, I found my tripod and it works with my camera! And it still looks brandnew. As it should since I seldom used it. lol

      We’ll see about #3 next week…

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      1. Edward Arrington

        Glad to hear that your tripod works. The two I had mentioned to you were purchased 30-35 years ago. Not much stays the same that long.

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        Patricia Bradley

        Hi Edward. This tripod is probably 20 years old, but it’s in its original box and I didn’t use it all that much. I had K-1000 that used film and once digital come on the scene, I switched to that. My original camera was a Petri, and I had to set the f-stop and shutter speed. I loved being able to focus in on, say a flower and have the background blurred.

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  15. MS Barb

    #2? I’ve never been to Yellowstone National Park, but I think it’s federal property and there’s probably rules on what can or cannot go into the geyser water!

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      Patricia Bradley

      Hi Lucy and I’m so glad you enjoyed the verse! I really enjoy finding the right verse for the photo. Hoping to get out tomorrow and get more photos…we’ll see if it’s #3 next week.

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  20. Toni Stevens

    As always a great verse and pic. I’m going with #2 but it was tough this time. You are getting really good at finding those funny odd ball crimes.

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