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Tricky twinkle toes
A crooked eBayer was tripped up by his own toes when he tried to sell stolen motorcycle parts, reports Florida’s The St Petersburg Times. Frustrated by the theft of his $6,000 bike, owner Derek Lombard searched on eBay and found the parts. 29-year old thief Richard Costello had laid the stolen items on a linoleum floor and taken photographs; however, his feet could be seen poking into some of the images, with ‘WHITE’ spelt on the toes of his left foot and ‘TRASH’ on the toes of the right foot – as noted in his jail records. “This one goes in the ‘Not the brightest star in the sky’ file” noted police Sgt Greg Stewart.
This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .
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