Chuck Shepherd collects weird news from all over the world. You may have seen his columns in newspapers and magazines. Many of the strange occurrences in his collection have to do with crime. For example, here are a couple of his best ones:

In Portsmouth, Rhode Island, police charged Gregory Rosa, twenty-five, with a string of vending machine robberies. It seems he inexplicably fled from police when they spotted him loitering around a vending machine. Police were pretty sure they had their man when Rosa later tried to post bail using $400 in coins.

David Posman, thirty-three, was arrested in 1989 in Providence, Rhode Island, after allegedly knocking out an armored-car driver and stealing the closest four bags of money. The closest four bags were coins ” each containing only pennies and w…