The prick next door

Location is key. That’s rule one for most businesses, whether they be peddling puppies, hot dogs or guns. But when peddling stolen goods, adherence to the rule is paramount. Absolutely no good can come from peddling stolen goods right next door to the house from which they were stolen, although it’s probably some boon for a Severn, Maryland, woman that her neighbour, David Anthony Perticone, was too stupid to figure that out.

Having already lost her house to foreclosure by bank maggots, the woman had been bunking with her daughter when she learned the house, still packed with her worldly possessions, had been burgled. On her way to catalogue the missing items for police, she noticed Perticone was having a yard sale. She also noticed that the entire inventory of that yard sale was comprised of her stuff. Furniture, clothing, Christmas decorations—Perticone was even wearing one of her t-shirts.

Police say Perticone claimed he’d purchased the woman’s belongings for $100 from a guy in a pick-up truck. Police, however, were more inclined to believe Perticone looted the woman’s home himself and arrested him for burglary and theft.

by SCOTT SAXON