I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .It's ironic he stole ham in Hamburg, eh?
Trail of ham led police to meat thief suspect http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_758878.html?menu=news.quirkies
A trail of ham led police to the suspect's door after a burglary at a butcher's shop in Germany.
The man allegedly smashed a shop window in Hamburg to get into the butcher's shop.
Police arrived at the scene to find several pieces of ham lying in front of the broken glass.
Footprints and more ham pieces led them to a nearby house.
When they rang the bell, a 26-year-old man, already known to police for similar offences, opened the door.
The Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper reports the man was taken to a nearby police station but hasn't yet been formally charged.
Story filed: 10:03 Monday 10th March 2003
In the News
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Massive ID theft nabs 55,000 student records - 03/07/03 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2131593,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage
The University of Texas at Austin has been hit by an attack on its database servers that accessed the records of students and staff.
Online attackers stole information on more than 55,000 students and faculty from insecure database servers at the University of Texas at Austin, the school said on Wednesday.
Scottish law firm hit by malicious email hoax - 03/07/03 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2131611,00.html
Police and ISPs are investigating an email - set up to look like it was from a senior Scottish lawyer - that offers to 'screw the opposition to the wall.'
E-Mail Hoax Hits Miami University - 03/06/03 http://www.onnnews.com/story.php?record=22637
Classes will be held Thursday at Miami University in Oxford.
University officials say an e-mail sent to Miami University students, faculty and staff informing them that classes would be canceled today was a hoax.
Personal storage sites are the latest 'security risk' - 03/05/03 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/2919
Internet filtering outfit Websense has set its sights at stamping out uncontrolled use of personal storage sites in the workplace, describing data backup sites as the latest security risk.
Give me back my guns - 03/05/03 http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6077878%255E421,00.html
ALLEGED cyber-stalker Brian Sutcliffe has intensified his campaign to recover 71 guns police seized in a raid on his Brighton home.
Mr Sutcliffe, the first Australian to be charged with long-distance stalking, also wants his shooter's licence restored.
GIE Media Strives To Ensure Message Board Integrity - 03/05/03
http://www.lawnandlandscape.com/news/news.asp?ID=1272
GIE Media, Inc., parent company of the Lawn & Landscape Media Group, has taken legal action to ensure the integrity of the PCTOnline Message Board, which is a sister Web site of Lawn & Landscape Online.
Students face expulsion after vulgar posts on message board - 03/05/03 http://www.timeswrsw.com/N0305030.HTM
Two Warsaw Community High School students are suspended pending expulsion for the rest of the term and two others will attend a four-hour detention on Fridays for harassing, obscene postings on a Web site message board.
Licadesplit42 Meets Cops Instead Of Young Girl - 03/05/03 http://www.nbc10.com/news/2022242/detail.html
District Attorney Warns Would-Be Predators
An accused Internet predator is headed for trial.
Investigators say Leonard Dowlin thought he had made an online sex date with a 12-year-old girl.
Cyber crimes more likely in Jan-Jun: report - 03/05/03 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/06052011.htm
Sixty per cent of the computer crimes are likely to occur in the first six months of a year, according to a report on computer crime and abuse by Asian School of Cyber Laws.
Internet Predators: Can They Be Stopped? - 03/05/03 http://www.kark.com/karktv/news/story_tmp.asp?cmd=view&Storyid=5991
There is a dark side to the internet: adults using chat rooms to prey on kids…then kidnap, or even kill those children. It's a problem police say is growing worse by the day.
Worker fired for Web complaint is vindicated - 03/04/03 http://www.belleville.com/mld/newsdemocrat/5309291.htm
Erika Coca believed she was just doing her job when she informed her boss, Alice Vance, that a co-worker spent many hours each day on his office computer visiting Internet pornography sites.
'Net Perv Guilty In Girl Slay - 03/04/03 http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/69929.htm
A Brazilian immigrant pleaded guilty yesterday to strangling and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Connecticut schoolgirl he met on the Internet - crimes that could send him to prison for 30 years.
Abusive emailer jailed for 18 months - 03/04/03 http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,906808,00.html
A radio listener who hounded a veteran presenter with anti-semitic email messages during a six-year campaign of harassment was yesterday jailed for 18 months.
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