Filed under: Weird but True
What parent among us has not swiped a few bucks from our kid's piggy bank? Okay, maybe that is just me, but there was a time when a couple of dollars meant the difference between buying milk and eating dry cereal. If those couple of dollars happened to be sitting in Christy's piggy bank....well, you get the picture.Helping yourself to your kid's cash stash is one thing. Stealing from somebody else's kid's piggy bank is quite another. Just ask 30-year-old Ryan Mueller, who has been charged with doing just that.
Police in Sheboygan, Wisconsin say that Mueller climbed through a window of a sleeping 2-year-old girl's bedroom and proceeded to help himself to the contents of her piggy bank. The girl's mother happened to notice the light on in her daughter's room and when she went to investigate, caught him red handed with the piggy bank. He managed to extract $20 from the piggy before fleeing the scene.
He might have gotten away with it except for the bit of blood he left behind on the window blind. DNA testing of the blood linked Mueller to the scene of the crime and he's been charged with felony burglary, which could get him up to 9½ years in prison.
I don't know what he needed the money for, but I would be willing to bet it wasn't milk.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
