Библиографический список. XVI. Read and translate the following

XVI. Read and translate the following.

The Stupidest Criminals.

An Italian who turned to snatching handbags to finance his drug addiction came unstuck[1], when he robbed his own mother by mistake. The woman was walking along the street when her son, who didn’t see her face until it was too late, sped past on a motorcycle and snatched her bag. Recognizing him, his mother was so angry she reported him to the police.

A Russian man arrived at his country retreat near Arkhangelsk, Russia, on the White Sea and found the entire house stolen, complete with outhouses and fences, leaving just a vegetable patch.

Two prisoners tried to escape from an appearance at a court in Watford, England. Forgetting that they were handcuffed together, they ran on either side of a lamppost. Having hurtled into one another, the stunned pair was grabbed by the guard and bundled into a waiting prison van.

Members of a British Rail cricket team turned up[2] for the first match of the season at their field near Kidderminster, England. The pavilion had disappeared. How one steals an eight-room building without anyone noticing remains a mystery.

Steven Kemble was arrested in St. George, when he tried to flee after shoplifting a CD. After being briefly detained by a store clerk, he broke free, dashed out the door, and ran into a pillar in front of the shop, knocking himself unconscious.

Three imprisoned robbers broke out of a new jail in France by climbing ladders left behind by workmen. The workers had been erecting wires intended to deter helicopter-aided escapes from the prison yard, but in preventing the high-tech breakouts[3], they seem to have forgotten all about the low-tech ones.

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[1] unstuck (slang) – ruined.

[2] to turn up – to arrive, to appear.

[3] a breakout – an escape.

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