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As we recently discussed, Pennsylvania college students Leslie Pope and John Wagner were arrested by police last week for refusing to pay the 18% mandatory gratuity tacked onto their bill at the Leigh Pub in Bethlehem, Pa. That two-person crime wave came to an abrupt halt when, even after explaining they had received terrible service and would not be leaving any gratuities, pub employees had the students arrested.

Q: When is a tip not a tip? 

A: When it is a mandatory gratuity that when you refuse to pay, they haul you off to the pokey.

Do you really ever know who's watching the kids? Parents of a young boy in Norwalk, CA, thought they did, but not quite. While babysitting for "friends," 20 year-old Jeremy Gallegos allegedly went on a crime spree, including liquor store robbery, while holding his friends' young child in his arms.

It's fair to say that Anthony Carrazco probably isn't the best salesman.

The 19-year-old was arrested after allegedly trying to sell marijuana door-to-door.

His poor sales strategy led him to knock on one to many doors -- one that belonged to an off-duty police officer.

A former employee allegedly stole his ex-employer's bus, took it for a joyride and then put a video of the joyride on YouTube for all to enjoy, including the cops.

Jacob Rehm's, four-minute video titled, "The Fabulous Bus Ride" has almost 30,000 views so far the video sharing site YouTube.

When questioned about his actions, Rhem said he felt inspired.

A retirement aged thief is allegedly behind four recent heists in two months in the San Diego area.

Law enforcement officials have dubbed the elderly armed bank robber the "Geezer Bandit," and are offering a reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

Universal Pictures recently had to reach a settlement with a number of news outlets in Alaska over its promotional movie ads that used fake news archives in order to promote their movie entitled The Fourth Kind.

LA Times reports that the movie studio planted fake news stories online that claimed to be from actual news outlets in Alaska. Some of the fake news stories that the movie studio planted were articles such as an obituary and news story about the death of the main character of the movie named Dr. William Tyler. The movie is supposed to be based on a "true story" about an alien abduction that took place ten years ago.

Burglary 101: Don't leave your unemployment check stub behind.

A burglar was caught in the act by a resident who dropped his personal planner with the unemployment pay stub bearing his name and home address, the Union Leader reports.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has settled a lawsuit with the Associated Press by releasing a video of a guard tossing a non-lethal hand grenade into an inmate's cell.

The video was made public after the AP sued seeking a copy under the state's open records law. The department also agreed pay $5,000 to foot the bill for the AP's attorneys fees, the Associated Press reports.

Herbert Bristol got a primo parking space.

Authorities charged him recently after he purposely drove his vehicle through the side door of a North Carolina courthouse building.

His car continued down a hallway of the Morganton courthouse and came to a stop near the tax assessor's office in the main lobby.