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When 18-year-old Marcel Langer ran into difficulties planning a $50,000 jewellery heist, he roped his mom in to help.

“I could not believe it when he said what he was up to,” said Daniela Langer, Marcel’s mother. “I offered to drive him there to keep an eye on him. I was worried about him.”

Before the main event, she took her son to a local shop to stock up on supplies - he instructed his mother not to get fingerprints on the duct tape and rope she purchased for him.

She then admitted to driving her son to the jeweler’s shop, where he met up with two other men. She acted as the look-out while the trio broke in to the shop and stole around $50,000 worth of jewelry.

“I was so worried about what might happen to him that I went along to make sure he would be safe,” she said. No one’s sure who was watching her other four children at the time.

Joerg Weyrath, the shop’s owner should’ve asked someone to look out for him - he was stabbed during the robbery and is still recovering.

The thieves and Mrs Langer were caught when they tripped the shop’s silent alarm during the robbery.

There’s getting more bang for your buck, and then there’s those little hidden extras you never bargained on - Jorge Giro got just that when he bought a house on the Catalonian coast.

Shortly after winning a property in Roses, Catalonia, Giro heard about a fire nearby and decided to visit his new home to check for damage.

When Giro arrived to inspect the home, he discovered the mummified remains of its former owner sitting on the sofa. Investigations have concluded the woman, Maria Luisa, must’ve died in 2001 around the time the bank stopped receiving payments on the property.

Neighbors described Luisa as being in poor health. Apparently, it was normal that no one reported her missing - in neighborhoods such as the one where Luisa resided, people keep out of one another’s affairs. Adding to this, Luisa lived in an area frequented by tourists, with few regular residents. She was also estranged from her family.

Authorities were surprised, however, that the bank had auctioned the residence after foreclosure without inspecting it. One police spokesperson explained that Luisa’s remains were preserved through mummification due to the salty sea air.