Crime Duo - Using thongs as shop robbing masks

Two crimesters were smart enough to wear disguises when they robbed a convenience store in Colorado but sadly, were not smart enough to pick something a little less revealing than a thong.

Full sotry: Sky News

Australian driver - Using seatbelt for beer but not child

Nobody wants 30 bottles of beer to fly through their windscreen but wouldn't that be better than the same thing happening to a child? Apparently an Australian driver disagrees.

Four adults were strapped into the car leaving one remaining seatbelt, a crate of beer and a child. The adults saw fit to strap in the beer and leave the child sitting unprotected in the middle of the car.

The car was pulled over by the police and the driver fined £360.

Source: Sky News

A Polish Building Contracter - Doing it with a Hoover

Henry has a cute smiley face and is described as "Famous for his looks" and "Ready to go time and time again." Sounds like a good catch doesn't he? Until you find he's a vacuum cleaner!

However, a Polish building contractor appears not to have been perturbed by this fact and was caught naked, kneeling before a Henry vacuum cleaner in the canteen of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

As if being caught doing it with a hoover wasn't cause enough to earn a Dufalumpus Award, the gentleman in question told his employers that he was actually just cleaning his underpants, claiming it was a popular practice in Poland!

He has since been sacked.

Source: The Telegraph (with thanks to Richard.)

Bell Canada - Inadvertently referencing the Holocaust

Bell Canada, a major phone company accidentally featured a punk-rock reference to the Holocaust in a set of billboard advertisements placed in Vancouver, Columbia and Toronto which has a large Jewish community and many Holocaust survivors.

In small versions of the designs, checked by executives, it was not clear that a punky young woman in the advert was wearing a badge spelling the controversial title of a song by the Sex Pistols, 'Belsen was a gas' which refers to Nazi Germany's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. When the adverts were blown up to full size, the button inscription could clearly be read.

On realising their mistake, Bell Canada apologised and removed over ten advertising boards and spokesman Mark Langton said "Obviously, we would never depict such an offensive slogan in our advertising." - although clearly, they did.

Sources: Reuters, Adrants