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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 07:25 AM
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Art Teacher Sketches Her Own Mugger


“A 71-year-old retired art teacher, Jill Smith, used her sketching skills to help catch a thief who stole her handbag. Mrs Smith was quick to identify drug addict Lloyd Talbot grabbed her handbag in a DIY store car park. The grandmother was asked by police to describe the thief – but she did better than that by penning a remarkable likeness from memory. Talbot, a convicted criminal, was identified by police officers who saw the sketch, and was handed a suspended jail sentence at Gateshead Magistrates’ Court on Monday. Mrs Smith, who lives in Derwentside, County Durham, said: “He picked on the wrong person. It was hard luck on him really.”

http://www.uniquedaily.com/

Wish more people had that talent.
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:25 AM
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1. It's a good thing she wasn't a cubist
or the police would have been questioning every blockhead in the neighborhood!
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:43 AM
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4. HAHAHA!
or a surrealist
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:10 AM
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2. handed a suspended sentence
:wtf:
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:11 AM
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3. Cuts in the prison budgets
:shrug:
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:51 AM
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5. Too bad he couldn't have "drawn" some jail time!
I'm sure his victim would have liked to "picture" it!
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