You’ve probably heard of grand theft auto, but what about grand theft hotel? A Brooklyn man was arrested on Friday for trying to make a fraudulent deed to make him the owner of a $76 Million establishment to himself.
Kouadio Kouassi, 46, was charged with attempted grand larceny and two counts of offering a false deed for ownership transfer.
Kouassi allegedly filed a phony business certificate with the New York County Clerks Office trying to establish a phony deed for the hotel. Authorities say he went to the Department of Finance to record a phony deed which transferred ownership of the property to himself.
His paperwork, however, was declined because he did not have all of the appropriate signatures and papers.
If convicted, Kouassi faces up to 15 years in prison.
This man had thought he had found a brilliant way to transfer the ownership,But he may now be sleeping in less glamorous accommodations.
Hilarious. It’s long, but you just have to click the link and read the story for yourself. Here’s part of it:
“Best Buy calls 911 after Consumerist reader RJH asks for a refund on a nonworking Tony Bennet CD.
Sooooo RJH buys the CD and goes to his car to play it. He gets “Disk read error” three times. RJH walks back in with his three minute old album and receipt and asks for a refund.
The clerk tells him there’s state and federal laws against refunding money. Our guy calls him a fool.
Manager comes and says the guy can have a substitute disk or leave, or else the manager will have him arrested for trespassing.
Guy laughs.
Manager calls 911…”
When Jim Kavlaris cut into a cake on Christmas he got a little more than he bargained for. He thought the cake was just frozen, and considered microwaving it “just to loosen it up” (thankfully he didn’t). But as he sliced off the first piece he was amazed to find pure styrofoam. “THIS IS NOT REAL CAKE!” he called to his mother. She at first thought he was only joking, but then realized the truth.
“Bubbles of the same stuff used as packing material were all over the plate, the knife and what was left of the frosting…” Jim later recalled.
His family was celebrating Jim, 32, and his grandmother’s, 96, birthdays that Christmas.
“Responding to my inquiry, Sam’s Club manager Jeff Hartsaw theorized that an employee must have mistakenly picked up a Styrofoam display cake coated with white frosting, thought it was real and added the finishing touches ordered by Kavalaris’ mother. ‘We’ll make it right,’ he said. And Hartsaw did just that. He phoned Kavalaris Tuesday and invited him back to the store. The manager gave Kavalaris:
• A refund for the original cake.
• A fresh cake decorated just like the original one.
• A letter of apology.
• A $100 gift card to the store.”
You’d be crazy to try to ski down a rocky cliff, and even crazier to glide over one with a parachute. I’m not sure what that makes doing both at the same time…
