By Tim Binnall
Police in Denmark arrested a man three times over the course of a single day in which the scofflaw was a veritable one man crime spree. According to a local media report, the curious case began on Monday morning when the unnamed suspect was taken into custody due to an arrest warrant that had been issued by a court. While the situation was apparently resolved and the man was released, it was only a matter of hours before he wound up in hot water with the law again as, later that morning, he was busted for allegedly shoplifting from a convenience store in the city of Nykøbing Falste.
Suggesting, as if there were any doubt, that the 28-year-old suspect is no master criminal, police say that they caught the suspected thief when he returned to the store to retrieve his cell phone, which he had accidentally left behind prior to exiting the shop with a backpack full of pilfered goods. Although arrested and charged with shoplifting, since the crime was petty in nature, the man was soon back out on the streets, whereupon he proceeded to find himself, once again, in police custody a few hours later.
In this particular instance, police responded to a call about a person roaming around a popular dock in the nearby town of Stubbekøbing and, concerned residents reported, the individual was brandishing an ax. When cops arrived on the scene, they arrested the man for the third time that day and charged him with violating a law surrounding the carrying of weapons. While it is uncertain what became of the miscreant after that, one hopes that Monday's multiple encounters with the authorities will cause him to reconsider his life choices, lest he wind up in handcuffs yet again.