1. Last month, a woman in her late 60s attempted to hold up a post office in Northenden, Manchester, UK, armed with a knife. Staff activated alarms. She walked off.
2. A trio of German pensioners aged between 64 and 73 known as the “Grandpa Gang” were jailed in 2005 for taking part in 14 bank robberies, stealing more than 1 million euros.
3 Australians David Davies, 81, and Florence Davies, 77, were convicted in 2004 for drug trafficking after police found 19kg of cannabis in a false ceiling.
4. An “Oliver Twist-style” training school was uncovered on a remote Siberian island in 2004 run by elderly criminals. Classes included “Dealing with police” and “How to win over your cell mates.”
5. Dottie Neeley, 87, from Kentucky was jailed in 2005 for selling her prescription painkillers and medication to addicts.
6. Wiliam Woolard from Worthing, Wes Sussex, is spending nine weeks in prison for claiming over £7,000 of benefits while working as a licensed scrape dealer.
7. A Lancashire pensioner, Harry Greaves, 70, was electronically tagged this year after being caught chauffeuring his drug-dealing wife around blackpool.
8. In 2000, wheelchair-bound Josie Daly - then 64 - was exposed as one of the UK’s premier madams. Her saunas in London made an estimated £7.5million in two years..
9. Retired accountant Roger Trotman was imprisoned by police in 2005 for ignoring his ASBO, gained for his fervent policing of parking on his Surrey road.
10. In 2004, Cumbrian resident Frank Benson was fined £100 for flashing a two-handed V-sign at speed cameras.
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Well, they say life begins at 40. Apparently criminal life begins at 60.