Here is a thread where we can share news stories about stupid criminals. It seems that local newpapers and internet news sites have quite a few of these stories and it never ceases to amaze me the mistakes criminals can make when they are committing a crime that can put them in prison for years. Here is the first story: Robber mistakes building for a bank, demands cash January 14, 2009 NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Police said a man showed a gun and tried to rob a bank, but he wasn't in one. The Jessamine South Elkhorn Water District has offices in what was formerly a branch of Farmers Bank. City police spokesman Scott Harvey told the Lexington Herald-Leader a man came into the building Tuesday, showed a pistol and demanded money. When an employee told the man the office really didn't have any money, the confused would-be robber replied, "I know you have money. It's a bank." He was told it was no longer a bank and he left with nothing. Harvey said the office takes payments for water bills, but doesn't have anything worth stealing.
Our educational system failed him so he couldn't read the sign. Because he can't read he also can't find a job so he must commit robberies. It isn't his fault.
We had one here in Sacramento recently, guy robbed a market, took some popcorn and must have ate it along the way. Detectives followed the popcorn trial on the ground right to his apartment doorstep not too far away.
Not a story but a video link http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1231991180/Robbers_Neck_Squished_by_Store_Security_Window WARNING!! There are some gruesome and explicit videos on the site.
There was a story last week about a guy who robbed a bank, then came back later to deposit the money into his account.
I read a story the other day about a guy who wore his ski mask while waiting in line to rob the bank.
And then there was the one criminal recently that robbed the bank by writing "GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY" on the back of his used deposit slip...
At one of my stores, My manager left his man purse on the counter while helping this guy. The guy just picked it up and took it with him when he left, (he walked over to pick it up). I know because we had 8 cameras, three in the front room that caught everything. Here is where the stupid criminal part comes in, Since it was a cell phone store and we sold him a cell phone we had his ID, his address and his Cell number. We called him said he won a free upgrade if he could come back in to claim it. To our surprise he did. We told him it will take a few minutes, we called the cops waited and waited, he waited and waited.. they showed up we watch him watch them walk to the back we showed the officer the video tape, he walked back to the front and said did you take this guys wallet off the counter, he said no why would I do that.....
I was listening to the Alice Cooper radio show and he said this week a guy robbed a bank with a hold-up note on the back of his paycheck. He got $400 from the bank but his paycheck was $460, so he lost money during the transaction.
a couple of buds of mine decided to rob a bank. well they picked a rural bank went in armed but with no bullets in the gun, they didn't want anyone to get hurt, they run out the door with the cash and litteraly run into the local sheriff. so they knock him down and go running towards their car which doesn't start. so they jump out and go running across the parking lot now being chased by the sheriff and some other folks so they do the throw the gun thing which doesn't work then they start throwing money at their pursuers thinking they'll stop to pick up the money. so then they run into a woods where they get seperated. one get stuck in a briar patch and sits down as the sheriff catches him the other makes good on his escape but is apprehended the next day. another genius i know hijacked a truck full of high end electronics. he gets chased by the cops and trys to evaded them by turning into a parking lot of , you guessed it, the police station.
Someone at the company I used to work for went out for lunch and robbed a bank. After lunch police arrested him at work. He forgot his company ID at the cashiers window.
http://www.thefightnetwork.com/news/mma/2580/jeff_monson_charged_for_photo_in_espn_magazine Cant get any dumber!
The father of my best friend in high school had a unique experience. He was driving home from work and someone pulled up behind him and started honking and waving. This was happening in Big Spring, Texas, a west Texas town of less than 30,000 population. My friends dad pulled over as he thought it may be someone he knew wanting to talk to him. The driver of the second car got out with a baseball bat and was yelling and cursing that he was going to kill the dad. My friends dad, I will call O.C., jumped back in the car and sped away. The second driver began chasing him, honking at him the whole time. O.C. drove down 4th street and turned behind a building he was familiar with and pulled under the awning, stopped and locked his doors. The other man pulled in behind him, honking as he turned in, jumped from the car and was waving the bat in the air threatening the life of O.C. This was done in front of the six police officers who were making a shift change just inside the rear door of the building O.C. had pulled into. The surprised officers took the other driver down and escorted him directly into his "free" room for the night. O.C. found out it was a case of mistaken identity. The second driver thought O.C. was another man who had been having an affair with his wife. It was quite a laugh when the report came out in the paper the next day......
Just two nights ago actually at a wawa parking lot in a 1972 VW square back........................on the other hand, I'd rather not get into things
I remember once on the news a guy whos car had been stolen, a couple of days later the police found the car a nd among his belonings in the car they found a bag of illegal weed. The cops thought it belonged to the car thiefs, when victim came to the station to claim his stuff, the guy didn't see the bag with his things so he caused a scene in the station screaming "where is my bag of weed".
About 30 years ago, my company was located in a fairly tough part of town. My office manager at the time decided we needed a big old safe in the office for petty cash, stamps, and some paperwork odds and ends. The safe weighed a few hundred pounds, and sat in a corner of the office under a table. One night we got broken into, a fairly common activity for us, and the thieves mad off with a couple of electric typewriters and the safe, which they lugged out of the building on one of our pallet jacks. As they rounded the back corner of our building, heading for their hideout , the safe fell off the jack with a resounding crash. A neighbor heard the noise, thought a car had been hit and called the police, who showed up a few minutes later and discovered the burglars trying to stuff the safe into their house through the basement window, big surprise, the safe didn't fit. Needless to say they got busted, and we recovered the safe which had about $100 in cash and maybe $30 worth of stamps in it. The police report valued the safe higher than the contents, a simply brilliant caper. Another time, my car got vandalized. One of the neighbors told the police who did it and we all went down the street to investigate and talk with the neighbor, whose kid was implicated. the police knocked on the door with me in tow. When the dad came to the door, sitting on his TV in plain view was a specialty wedding album that we made, and that had been stolen from us (along with a couple thousand dollars worth of other stuff) some months earlier. A search of the house produced a tool set that had been burgled from one of our secondary manufacturing buildings; a tool set that was from Italy and specific to a type of gluing machine we use. Oh, the vandal? He was 8 years old. Not old enough to get in trouble for the damages. The dad had no homeowners, so my insurance ending up paying for it. A couple weeks later when I followed up with the police the guy had been arrested, AGAIN, for some other offense and was in the local pokey. Here's one more. I was standing on the corner of 5th and Main outside my building talking with the detective for our local PD. He was a singularly large and distinctive man, 6'6" or so, and EVERYONE in town knew him. Small town, small force, only one detective. So we're chatting on the corner when a guy approaches us and asks, "Do either of you guys need a nice watch?" The detective looks at me like he must be on Candid Camera. He absolutely dead pans, "Sure, I could use a watch, what do you have?" The guy does one of those scenes right out of a movie, slides up his jacket sleeve and there are maybe ten watches on his arm. The detective asks, "How much?" Guy says, "Name your watch, I'll give you a great price." Cop picks one, guy says "$20" at which point the cop asks if he has receipts for the watches. Perp replies, "Nah, they're hot." Boom, detective whips out his badge, arrests the guy, and off he goes. I have maybe a half dozen more stories from the seven years our company was located here. We've been gone since '83. I saw on the news a couple months ago that our old manufacturing plant collapsed, blocking the street and shutting down the town for hours while they cleaned it up. It had been given to the borough about 20 years ago to use as a community center. Geez, those were the days. DM
http://www.dieselbombers.com/outdoor-sportsman/20629-guy-who-mugged-me-downtown-craigslist-ad.html Looks like a real post.
I almost forgot about this one since it happened so long ago...... I was helping coach my younger brothers flag football team and had my 62 Nova SS parked along the dirt sidestreet adjoining the park that we were practicing in. This old Buick came up and down the street a couple of times at a pretty good rate of speed and was attempting to make the car go into power slides on the dirt. I believe it was a '49 Buick if I am not mistaken so you know the thing was built like a tank. On the third time coming down the street he tried putting it into a power slide and lost control, sliding into the left rear quarter of my Nova at about 45 mph. Loud crash and lots of damage to my cars rear end. He was trying to get away and a I jumped over the fence and ran over to his car and attempted to open his door to pull him out. Unfortunately he had the door locked and I got my hand caught in the door handle and got pulled down the street about 50 feet before getting my hand out. Fortunately the car did not accelerate very quickly so I was able to sprint beside the car while working my hand out. Everyone there got a real good look at the car, driver and license number. The police came to investigate and said they would get back with me if they found anything out. About two hours later a detective came back to the house and asked if I would go with him to help identify a possible suspect. We drove up to a bar about a mile from the house. Sure enough, there sat the old Buick. I was only about 18 so I had not been in a real bar before (not just a bar but a "beer joint"). The detective had me sit at the bar on one side of the suspect while he sat on the other. To our complete disbelief the other driver was sitting there bragging to the bartender and laughing about "taking out" that little Chevy "tincan". The detective invited him to walk outside with him. I ID'ed him outside and the detective arrested him and called in a squad car to take him downtown. He took me back home and dropped me off. The case never went to trial as the other guy pleaded guilty. Boy, to brag about something like that two hours after it happened about a mile away. How stupid is that....... Oh, he had no insurance and I had to use mine to get the car fixed.........I sold it soon after it came out of the shop....... The detective and I became good friends and when I became a used car manager at the first dealership I worked at I would let the drug task force use some of our old $500 beater trade-ins for the drug deals......He was the head of the task force. Worked out good for both of us.....
