Featuring a wannabe robber who was found naked in a supermarket chimney; the case of an owl kidnapped to cash in on a Harry Potter-inspired craze; and a couple who hatched a surreal scam to dodge a 120 pound speeding fine which cost them over 10,000 pounds and involved a European round trip and a bogus Bulgarian.

Featuring the story of the gang who used a mechanical digger to smash and grab an ATM from the bank of a quiet Lincolnshire village; the tale of a conman and bigamist who was wanted for multiple fraud charges while juggling two wives and a girlfriend in different parts of the UK; and how a surreal plan to get off a speeding fine backfired when police called in the help of an expert who usually reconstructs the faces of murder victims.

Featuring the tale of two drunk Sunderland lads who, after a boozy day out in South Shields, decided to steal a pedalo to sail seven miles down the coast after missing the last tram home; the story of how police uncovered an international plot to smuggle rare falcon eggs out of Birmingham airport; and the case of a man whose identity was a mystery to his own wife and children, after he spent years using a false name and claiming to be the Earl of Buckingham.