OMGPD: View-Porn-Pay-the-Feds Scam & More Police Oddities

Figure This One Out: View Porn, Pay the Feds?

In Sudbury, a North Road resident reported suspicious circumstances involving his laptop computer. The responding officer determined a virus from a porn site the resident was surfing infected the computer. The laptop froze with a message advising the resident to pay, via a MoneyGram, $300 to the Department of Justice: http://patch.com/A-2fMm

'We Don't Need No Stinkin' Shovel' (With Apologies to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

A shovel-free Waltham man was arrested for offering snow shoveling services: http://patch.com/A-2dtW

Those Were Not Meant to Be Gimmes

Employees at Golf Town in Watertown received a tip about a pair of women who stole from the Bellingham branch of the store and took off in a Honda. They spotted a suspicious woman in the store who left and got into a red Honda, and then a second woman came in from the same car. Security caught her with hundreds of dollars worth of golf balls in her pocketbook: http://patch.com/A-2gmj