The Watford Observer in England included this useful bit of information in an article about the abduction and murder of a local man. The paper detailed the killer’s plan, including the contents of something they called a “kidnap” kit. The kidnappers laptop bag included knives, gaffers tape, scalpels and face masks. Here is a link […]
Alicia Lyons, a day care worker in Kentucky has solved the problem of unruly children who don’t want to settle down at nap time. She duct tapes them to their floor mats! Lyons, along with a co-worker, taped at least one child, an 18 month old, to the floor to enforce the nap time rules. […]
A Pennsylvania judge, Tommy Creany, ordered that a defendant in his court room have has mouth duct taped to stop outbursts during jury selection. The defendant, Erik Britt, was silenced by the judge after repeated attempts by Britt to disrupt the proceedings in the trial of his assault case. You can read the details here. […]
The Chicago father who was arrested after posting a picture of his daughter bound with tape on Facebook is guilty of nothing beyond bad judgement. Andre Curry was imprisoned because he was unable to post a $100,000 bond after he posted a picture of his daughter tied up with blue painters tape on his Facebook […]
British specialty product marketer Ain’t Rocket Science has released tiny crime scene tape as part their tiny things product line. You can see it and make a purchase by clicking here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll share it with the world! […]
The sheriff in Clay County, NC has decided to not press charges against an unruly child what was tied to a chair and had his mouth duct taped closed by his teacher. Music Teacher Lindsey Cope apparently broke no laws when she attempted to control a disruptive first grader at Hayesville Middle School. Cope, Hayesville […]
Aircraft mechanics disassembling a jumbo jet in England found a large stash of cocaine hidden in the plane’s lavatory. Air Salvage International engineers reported finding three suspect packages of white powder that they believed was cocaine wrapped in black gaffers tape. The smuggler’s bounty might have never been found if they had realized that gaffers […]
Toronto police used surveillance camera video and fingerprints lifted from duct tape to in efforts to solve a vandalism crime. A war memorial near a Toronto school was defaced with blue duct tape and vandalized in other ways by what appears on the video to be four vandals. Police report that damage to the memorial […]
Scammers in South Carolina convinced a woman in a gas station parking lot to purchase a brand new Apple laptop at a “volume” discount, and she jumped at a chance to purchase what she thought was a brand new computer for an unbelievable price. When she got her price purchase home she realized that what […]
I know that “Tape News.com” has focused a little too much on police barricade tape lately, but we couldn’t pass up this story. Apparently, back in the days before uncontrolled increases in crime required importing barricade tape from China, things were so calm that Americans had time to knit their barricade tape. Here are details, […]