In Pictures: The 31 weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012

This one comes from The Smoking Gun which this summer wrote about an employee at a Verizon Wireless store in Florida who illegally copied naked photos contained on the phone of a female customer and then shared the images with a fellow male employee. Cops learned of the photo heist when one of the employees last month showed the explicit photos to a male customer who happened to know the woman and alerted her to what had transpired at the business.