When a Port Charlotte, FL mother learned that her daughter’s school bus driver had forced the children on her bus to tape each others’ mouths shut to keep them quiet, her response was “It breaks my heart. She doesn’t get that sort of treatment at home”. The official spokesman for the school system’s response: “It […]
A 42 year old British woman faked a robbery of her social club by tying herself to a chair, cuffing her wrists with wire ties and cutting her arms and legs. Finally, she put gaffers tape over her mouth in an attempt to re-create a crime scene like she had seen in CSI. You can […]
A video posted to the Huffington Post puts to rest the idea that bad guys in the movies putting duct tape over the mouths of their victims will keep them quiet. In the video we see that even with tape over your mouth, it is still possible to talk or to yell for help. We did […]
A thief that used duct tape to try to silence a goat he was stealing left behind more than just the goat. The attempted theft of two goats, and the subsequent death of one of them, from a school’s agricultural barn generated evidence that police were able to use to eventually solve the crime. DNA […]
It’s not a funny story, but, nonetheless, the image does evoke a smile. No doubt, the person who duct taped a bunch of heliuim balloons to a turtle and sent it aloft is guilty of animal cruelty, and there is nothing funny about that. Still, it’s not every day that you see a turtle flying […]
A Queens, NY truck driver was caught using electrical tape to alter the numbers on his truck’s license tag in an attempt to evade toll charges. The Goethals Bridge in New York uses a photo system to determine who owes tolls when using the bridge and sends them a bill. Trucker Benjamin McClellan has been […]
Police in four Washington state municipalities are teaming up to try to catch a bank robber that they have dubbed “the duct tape bandit”. He has earned that nickname because he attempts to disguise himself by wearing black duct tape across his face. So far, he has robbed four banks and assaulted a bank employee […]
It is the season of the duct tape prom dress, so this story seems just a little out of place. Mynorthwest.com, a news site that reports on the Pacific northwest, posted a story about 22 year old Lynnzee Aragon being arrested after assaulting three policemen outside a Seattle bar. She was reported to be wearing only […]
Boston police suspect fraternity hazing after finding five shivering students in their underwear, bound with duct tape, in the basement of an Ashford Street house. The students, believed to be members of Boston University’s Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, were covered with mustard, hot sauce and honey. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s […]
It was his knowledge of movie production that led to Stephen Workman’s arrest when he was charged with murder in Daytona Beach, FL. It appears that Workman tied up his victim with gaffers tape, a product most criminals don’t know about and can’t easily access. Police discovered Workman’s victim bound with the tape and were […]