BREAKING AND ENTERING WITH DENTAL FLOSS

Money-changing machines are simple things – put a dollar in, get four quarters out.  A defendant was caught trying to game that simplicity.  He attached a piece of dental floss to the dollar bill and kept inserting it far enough to trigger the machine, then pulling it back out with the floss, stealing 4 quarters at a time.

Unfortunately for our imaginative criminal, his gamble did not pay off.  For one thing, his state recognized the crime of breaking and entering into such a machine.  Then the Court, adding insult to injury, held that there was no need for his hand or other body part to enter the machine to constitute B&E.  He could break-and-enter via a dollar bill and dental floss.