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baldzin
03-27-2008, 06:17 PM
Don’t you love bizarre crimes? I mean, not love committing them, but reading about them. I found this one from Wichita:

I cut up the URL. Just add "html" to the end.
kake.com/news/headlines/16416471

a case uncovered this week in Wichita proves just how easy it is for people to be taken advantage of.

Wichita Police have arrested a man and a woman after the man walked into a patrol substation and reported that he was an undercover agent who had assumed the identity of someone else.

Sergeant Bruce Watts says the man explained where he was living, so officers later went to the home in the 600 block of South Bluff to check it out. They discovered a very strange situation.

The same man who reported the incident the day before answered the door when the officers knocked. They realized he was living there with his wife. Neither were supposed to be there.

"These people had broken into this house," says Sergeant Bruce Watts. "They assumed the owner's identity, got credit cards, hooked up satellite TV, phone service, ordered new flat screen TVs, new laptops, even changed the locks and put up a new mailbox."

Watts says the man who owns the house has been gone for several months taking care of his sick mother in another town.

Hilarious, humanity is.

vonkaiser
03-27-2008, 06:17 PM
I find it scary. What with all this foreclosure crap everyone’s house is suddenly up for grabs by the homeless. Leave one bill or drop a page from your address book and BAM, lose everything. Even with that guy, who was just away for a while, no one even knew. And he missed his credit report, so he didn’t find out either. Now I know why everyone’s advertising the creditlock features on TrustedID or other protection services. Sometimes you just can’t tell, so you’ve got backup.