Sex dooms burglar couple’s outing
The worst-laid plans often go awry.
Pepper spray, a bad way to end a date, criminal outing ... or both.
Such was the case in Hillsboro, Missouri, where a burglary duo’s purloinment of power tools and DVDs was interrupted by carnal passion.
The female cat burglar must not have appreciated the amorous advances — she elected to pepper spray her cohort and flee in the homeowner’s car, according to an article by NBC affiliate KSDK.
Two miles down the road she ran the car into a pond.
The man was caught running down the road wearing nothing but a raincoat and lugging a bag of stolen goods.
It makes you wonder what kind of DVDs they found hidden in the garage.
Jefferson County police did not respond to emails and phone calls.
Sadly, there are no booking mugs online.
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56 comments Add your comment
Lynn
July 3rd, 2011
4:45 pm
Wow! This article took all of about 15 seconds to read and there was not an unfamiliar word in it! Purloin is a very common word, perhaps not in every day conversation, but certainly in written word. Do you people not read much? How embarrassing for you.
Chris
July 3rd, 2011
7:23 pm
It probably takes less time to look up “purloin” or “purloinment” online than it does to complain about it. I thought it was a clever choice of words — it contains the word “loin” and it’s an article about sex.
kevin
July 3rd, 2011
8:15 pm
I would have to say, this is a very poorly written article. Despite showing off the big vocabulary, the author fails in grammar. How do you wear a bag of stolen goods?
Brian
July 3rd, 2011
9:02 pm
Bobo, I am not sure what world you live in. But in the 44 years of my life, I have never heard the word purlionment. Anyway
Brian Fronebarger
Doug
July 4th, 2011
6:51 am
This is a blog. Therefore, it is allowed a little more freedom than a hard news story. Hence, words like “purloinment” and the editorializing in the last three paragraphs. And the cutline on the picture, of course.
This Gets Old!
July 4th, 2011
12:58 pm
No you guys are the losers. Attacking a writer because of his use of the language? Because you don’t get it. Fine, then why comment? You write and then we’ll judge. The use of the word doesn’t matter in the content of the story.
Joe Brown
July 4th, 2011
2:56 pm
If we’re going to speak of the journalist’s grammar, how about this: 1. “…wearing nothing but a raincoat and a bag of stolen goods.” ? He was wearing a bag of stolen goods?And, 2. “…there’s no booking mugs…” ? How about, there ARE no booking mugs. plural subject-singular verb. Happens all the time if you notice.
Nevertheless, the article is a nice one.
kaebomb
July 4th, 2011
11:17 pm
Wow Darcy! Are you jealous? Not everyone’s an idiot. Maybe if journalists took advantage of our manifold language, people would become familiar with more locutions and rise above an eighth-grade scholarship.
Thanks, George, for the article. It made me smile.
George Mathis
July 5th, 2011
9:19 am
I’m just glad someone got the purloinment joke.
Bobsbigbrain
July 6th, 2011
2:54 pm
“… best laid plans…” hahahahah